Some food guidelines are common: eat local, eat organic, eat whole grains. And more and more nutritionists are paying more attention to foods that combine together well.
One restaurant, Rouge Tomate, has an on-staff nutritionist that makes sure that food ingredients used in Rouge Tomate's dishes are combined in a way that maximizes their health benefits. Nutritionist Natalia Rusin makes sure there’s an ingredient high in polyphenols, like grapes to combine with recipes containing fish, to help facilitate the body's absorption of Omega 3.
CBS News Article on Foodpairing & Nutrition
Epicurious Wine and Food Pairing
Wine and Food pairing Software developed for Epicurious
Building it took eight months and the result is a new computer-generated wine and food pairing service that uses cutting edge technology to answer an age-old question: What foods and wines should be paired to serve for dinner?
French Culinary Institute, Wine & Food Pairings
Andrea Immer Robinson is a master at pairing food and wine. The Dean of wine studies at the French Culinary Institute gives wine and food pairing tips and recipes.
Paring Tea with Food
Tea is often put into the same category as coffee. So it makes sense that some people pairing tea with foods will refer to what works well with coffee. However, most tea lovers tire of the limited choices (pastries and biscotti) available under this comparison. The most effective way to approach this subject is not through coffee, rather through another gourmet product known for its complementary nature: wine.