Food & Wine Magazine
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Food & Wine is a monthly magazine
published by American Express Publishing. It was founded in 1978 by Ariane and Michael Batterberry
. It features recipes, cooking
tips, travel
information, restaurant reviews
, chef
s, wine pairings
and seasonal/holiday content and has been credited by The New York Times
with introducing the dining public to "Perrier
, the purple Peruvian potato and Patagonian toothfish
".
The premier event for the magazine is the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado
. The Classic features wine tasting
, cooking demonstrations, featured speakers, as well as a cooking competition. Held annually in June, the event is considered the kickoff to the Aspen summer season and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2007.
The winner of Top Chef
, the reality television
cooking competition, is featured in a spread in this magazine.
and Ariane Batterberry's early writing work on food included the 1973 book On the Town in New York, From 1776 to the Present, which proved a culinary history of New York City and was republished in 1998 by Routledge
in celebration of the book's 25th anniversary. The Batterberrys had first met an arts benefit on the roof of Manhattan
's St. Regis Hotel and hadn't initially been food writers, with Michael working as a journalist and the historic and the couple working together as arts editors at Harper's Bazaar
. They first conceived of the idea of writing a book about food all over the world as it unfolds the salads of matt preston after spending a weekend together with best-selling wine writer Hugh Johnson
, who later dropped out of the writing project. The original edition of the book was described by The Washington Post
as being "considered the authoritative history of dining in the country's culinary capital". The Batterberry's saw "a big changeover at the moment we founded Food and Wine in the late 70's" from a time when "it was the little wife in the kitchen" to a period in which more men developed an interest in cooking.
With Robert and Lindy Kenyon covering the business side and with funding by Hugh Hefner
, the Batterberrys started publishing The International Review of Food and Wine in 1978, which had a prototype issue published in Playboy
. Later renamed simply Food & Wine, the magazine's mission was to be a more down-to-earth alternative to Gourmet
and its "truffled pomposity", with the goal of appealing to both women and men as readers, and early issues featuring articles by such non-traditional food writers as George Plimpton
and Wilfrid Sheed
. When it was first published, a senior editor of Gourmet magazine scoffed at the new alternative, saying "We don't look at the others as competition. They look at us, try to copy us and fail miserably". By 1980, when it was sold to American Express
, the magazine had circulation of 250,000 per issue, evenly split by gender, and was distributing 900,000 copies a month as of 2009. citing a decline in advertising sales and the changing tastes of its readers, Condé Nast Publications
announced in October 2009 that Gourmet would cease publication by the end of that year. The magazine's style of simple meals, diet foods and easy-to-follow cooking instructions set a standard that became the model for a generation of cooking shows and publications. The Batterberrys went on to co-found Food Arts magazine, a publication aimed at restaurants and hotels.
and the managing editor of HG
magazine. She graduated from Brown University
. She is married to Barclay Livingstone Palmer, a field producer with CNN
and currently resides in New York City.
in June of each year. The event features wine tasting
, cooking demonstrations, featured speakers, as well as a cooking competition.
The 2006 Food & Wine Classic took place from June 16 through the 18 and is considered the kickoff to the Aspen summer season. The event celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2007, running from June 15 through 17, 2007.
A trip to the event is offered as part of the grand prize for the winner of the reality television series Top Chef
.
On June 19th, 2011, QVC
will broadcast the Food & Wine Classic live from Aspen, Colorado from Noon to 3pm EST
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
published by American Express Publishing. It was founded in 1978 by Ariane and Michael Batterberry
Michael Batterberry
Michael Carver Batterberry was an American food writer who founded and edited Food & Wine and Food Arts together with his wife....
. It features recipes, cooking
Cooking
Cooking is the process of preparing food by use of heat. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions. Cooks themselves also vary widely in skill and training...
tips, travel
Travel
Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. 'Travel' can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.-Etymology:...
information, restaurant reviews
Restaurant
A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...
, chef
Chef
A chef is a person who cooks professionally for other people. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who cooks for a living, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation.-Etymology:The word "chef" is borrowed ...
s, wine pairings
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
and seasonal/holiday content and has been credited by The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
with introducing the dining public to "Perrier
Perrier
Perrier is a brand of bottled mineral water made from a spring in Vergèze in the Gard département of France. The spring is naturally carbonated...
, the purple Peruvian potato and Patagonian toothfish
Patagonian toothfish
The Patagonian toothfish, Dissostichus eleginoides , is a fish found in the cold, temperate waters of the southern Atlantic, southern Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans on seamounts and continental shelves around most sub-Antarctic islands.A close relative, the Antarctic toothfish , is found...
".
The premier event for the magazine is the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado
Aspen, Colorado
The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 5,804 in 2005...
. The Classic features wine tasting
Wine tasting
Wine tasting is the sensory examination and evaluation of wine. While the practice of wine tasting is as ancient as its production, a more formalized methodology has slowly become established from the 14th century onwards...
, cooking demonstrations, featured speakers, as well as a cooking competition. Held annually in June, the event is considered the kickoff to the Aspen summer season and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2007.
The winner of Top Chef
Top Chef
Top Chef is an American reality competition show that airs on the cable television network Bravo, in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants...
, the reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
cooking competition, is featured in a spread in this magazine.
History
MichaelMichael Batterberry
Michael Carver Batterberry was an American food writer who founded and edited Food & Wine and Food Arts together with his wife....
and Ariane Batterberry's early writing work on food included the 1973 book On the Town in New York, From 1776 to the Present, which proved a culinary history of New York City and was republished in 1998 by Routledge
Routledge
Routledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge...
in celebration of the book's 25th anniversary. The Batterberrys had first met an arts benefit on the roof of Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
's St. Regis Hotel and hadn't initially been food writers, with Michael working as a journalist and the historic and the couple working together as arts editors at Harper's Bazaar
Harper's Bazaar
Harper’s Bazaar is an American fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harper’s Bazaar is published by Hearst and, as a magazine, considers itself to be the style resource for “women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture.”...
. They first conceived of the idea of writing a book about food all over the world as it unfolds the salads of matt preston after spending a weekend together with best-selling wine writer Hugh Johnson
Hugh Johnson (wine writer)
Hugh Johnson OBE is a British author and expert on wine. He is considered the world's best-selling wine writer.-Career:Johnson became a member of the Cambridge University Wine and Food Society while an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge in the 1950s, while reading English...
, who later dropped out of the writing project. The original edition of the book was described by The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
as being "considered the authoritative history of dining in the country's culinary capital". The Batterberry's saw "a big changeover at the moment we founded Food and Wine in the late 70's" from a time when "it was the little wife in the kitchen" to a period in which more men developed an interest in cooking.
With Robert and Lindy Kenyon covering the business side and with funding by Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston "Hef" Hefner is an American magazine publisher, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises.-Early life:...
, the Batterberrys started publishing The International Review of Food and Wine in 1978, which had a prototype issue published in Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
. Later renamed simply Food & Wine, the magazine's mission was to be a more down-to-earth alternative to Gourmet
Gourmet (magazine)
Gourmet magazine was a monthly publication of Condé Nast and the first U.S. magazine devoted to food and wine. Founded by Earle R. MacAusland and first published in 1941, Gourmet also covered "good living" on a wider scale....
and its "truffled pomposity", with the goal of appealing to both women and men as readers, and early issues featuring articles by such non-traditional food writers as George Plimpton
George Plimpton
George Ames Plimpton was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review.-Early life:...
and Wilfrid Sheed
Wilfrid Sheed
Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed was an English-born American novelist and essayist.Sheed was born in London to Francis "Frank" Sheed and Mary "Maisie" Ward, prominent Roman Catholic publishers in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid-20th century...
. When it was first published, a senior editor of Gourmet magazine scoffed at the new alternative, saying "We don't look at the others as competition. They look at us, try to copy us and fail miserably". By 1980, when it was sold to American Express
American Express
American Express Company or AmEx, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best...
, the magazine had circulation of 250,000 per issue, evenly split by gender, and was distributing 900,000 copies a month as of 2009. citing a decline in advertising sales and the changing tastes of its readers, Condé Nast Publications
Condé Nast Publications
Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, is a magazine publisher. In the U.S., it produces 18 consumer magazines, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, as well as four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps...
announced in October 2009 that Gourmet would cease publication by the end of that year. The magazine's style of simple meals, diet foods and easy-to-follow cooking instructions set a standard that became the model for a generation of cooking shows and publications. The Batterberrys went on to co-found Food Arts magazine, a publication aimed at restaurants and hotels.
Editor-in-Chief
The current Editor-in-Chief is Dana Cowin. Cowin was previously the executive editor of MademoiselleMademoiselle (magazine)
Mademoiselle was an influential women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street and Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications....
and the managing editor of HG
House & Garden (magazine)
House & Garden was an American shelter magazine published by Condé Nast Publications that focused on interior design, entertaining, and gardening....
magazine. She graduated from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
. She is married to Barclay Livingstone Palmer, a field producer with CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
and currently resides in New York City.
Food & Wine Classic
The Food & Wine Classic is an annual event presented by Food & Wine Magazine. The Classic takes place in Aspen, ColoradoAspen, Colorado
The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 5,804 in 2005...
in June of each year. The event features wine tasting
Wine tasting
Wine tasting is the sensory examination and evaluation of wine. While the practice of wine tasting is as ancient as its production, a more formalized methodology has slowly become established from the 14th century onwards...
, cooking demonstrations, featured speakers, as well as a cooking competition.
The 2006 Food & Wine Classic took place from June 16 through the 18 and is considered the kickoff to the Aspen summer season. The event celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2007, running from June 15 through 17, 2007.
A trip to the event is offered as part of the grand prize for the winner of the reality television series Top Chef
Top Chef
Top Chef is an American reality competition show that airs on the cable television network Bravo, in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants...
.
On June 19th, 2011, QVC
QVC
QVC is a multinational corporation specializing in televised home shopping. Founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania, United States, QVC broadcasts in five countries as QVC US, QVC UK, QVC Germany, QVC Japan and – QVC Italy to 200 million households...
will broadcast the Food & Wine Classic live from Aspen, Colorado from Noon to 3pm EST