"food and wine magazine" news and stories

• On the cover: Food & Wine picks the next star chefs, and features interviews with each selection (scroll down).
• Some tips for your Fourth of July get-togethers.
• How to order wine off of a wine list.
• A profile of Harold Dieterle, the guy who won Bravo's Top Chef.
• Fast food gets a makeover from chefs.
• This month's recipes: Crab Balls with Grapefruit Salad, Daikon-Papaya Summer Rolls with Minted Yogurt Sauce,  Achiote Rice, Bouillabaisse, Caeser Salad with Meatballs, Chicken with Mulato Chile Sauce, Baby Burgers with Angry Onions, Blueberry-Raspberry Tart, and Sparkling Lime-Mint Coolers.
  

Nicole has been recommending a different cookbook every morning, but if you're looking for an encapulated list, the June 2006 issue of Food & Wine magazine has listed their picks for the Top 25 cookbooks of the year. They've grouped their choices into six categories: Chef Showcases, Everyday Experts, Global Exporters, Entertaining Helpers, Southern Stars, and Dessert Specialists. This is great place to start if you're looking for gifts for summer birthdays, graduations, Father's Day, and weddings! The article has a few recipes pulled from some of the cookbooks.

Chef Showcases
Molto Italiano by Mario Batali
Grilling For Life by Bobby Flay with Stephanie Banyas and Sally Jackson
Sunday Suppers at Lucques by Suzanne Goin with Teri Gelber
The New American Steakhouse Cookbook by David Walzog and Andrew Friedman
Brunch by Marc Meyer and Peter Meehan

We're always happy to see the shiny happy food magazines and websites crumble under peer pressure to start blogs. In addition to Daily Dish, Epicurious' editor has her personal blog, Epi-Log, now Bon Appetit has their own blog, and we've seen the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle restaurant reviewers turn themselves onto blogs as well. While Food and Wine hasn't yet created their own blog, they have added Blog Watch to their main page on their web presence, which lists their five favorite food blog posts from the previous week.

But just give them some time. We know we'll see a blog from them soon enough. Just got to make sure its up to Pete Wells' standards...

Food and Wine's web site has a list of 30 brunch favorites that would make for a perfect way to give your mom something special for Mother's Day. In other words, don't just go to CVS that morning and buy her a bottle of perfume.

Among the recipes: you can get really fancy and make her Lobster Eggs Benedict, or you can simplify things and make her French Scrambled Eggs. They even have Pumpernickel Waffles, where the secret ingredient in the batter is ... mashed potatoes!

Food & Wine magazine has announced its list of Best New Chefs of 2006. The 10 chefs come from across the country--and surprise-- there's even a chef from New Hampshire, the first time a chef from the Granite State has appeared on the list. The chef is Mary Dumont from the Dunaway Restaurant at Strawbery Banke. Past chefs chosen in the Best New Chef category include Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud and Nobu Matsuhisa. Eater has the full release.

• Cathal Armstrong Restaurant Eve, Alexandria, VA
• Christopher Lee Striped Bass, Philadelphia, PA
• David Chang Momofuku, New York, NY
• Douglas Keane Cyrus, Healdsburg, CA
• Jason Wilson Crush, Seattle, WA
• Jonathan Benno Per Se, New York, NY
• Mary Dumont The Dunaway Restaurant at Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth, NH
• Michael Carlson Schwa, Chicago, IL
• Pino Maffeo Restaurant L, Boston, MA
• Stewart Woodman Five, Minneapolis, MN

 

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