Food & Wine

40th Anniversary Special Edition issue (September 2018)
Editor in Chief	Hunter Lewis
Frequency	Monthly
Total circulation (June 2012)	947,855[1]
Founded	1978
Company	People Inc.
Country	United States
Based in	Birmingham, Alabama
Language	English
Website	foodandwine.com
ISSN	0741-9015

Food & Wine is an American monthlymagazine published byPeople Inc.. It was founded in 1978^[2][3] by Ariane andMichael Batterberry. It featuresrecipes,cooking tips,travel information,restaurant reviews,chefs,wine pairings and seasonal/holiday content and has been credited byThe New York Times with introducing the dining public to "Perrier, thepurple Peruvian potato andPatagonian toothfish".

The premier event for the magazine is the Food & Wine Classic inAspen, Colorado. The Classic featureswine tasting, cooking demonstrations, and 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 40th anniversary in 2023.

The winner ofTop Chef, thereality television cooking competition, is featured in a spread in this magazine.

Michael and Ariane Batterberry's early writing work on food included the 1973 bookOn the Town in New York, From 1776 to the Present, aculinary history of New York City that was republished in 1998 byRoutledge in celebration of the book's 25th anniversary. The Batterberrys had first met an arts benefit on the roof ofManhattan'sSt. Regis Hotel and had not initially been food writers, with Michael working as a journalist and the couple working together as arts editors atHarper's Bazaar. They first conceived of the idea of writing a book about food all over the world after spending a weekend together with best-selling wine writerHugh Johnson, who later dropped out of the writing project. The original edition of the book was described byThe Washington Post as "the authoritative history of dining in the country's culinary capital". The Batterberry's saw "a big changeover at the moment we foundedFood and Wine in the late '70s" from a time when "it was the little wife in the kitchen" to a period in which more men developed an interest in cooking.^[4]

With Robert and Lindy Kenyon covering the business side and with funding byHugh Hefner, the Batterberrys started publishingThe International Review of Food and Wine in 1978, which had a prototype issue published inPlayboy. Later renamed simplyFood & Wine, the magazine's mission was to be a more down-to-earth alternative toGourmet 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 asGeorge Plimpton andWilfrid Sheed. When it was first published, a senior editor ofGourmet 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 toAmerican 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. 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-foundFood Arts magazine, a publication aimed at restaurants and hotels.^[5][6]

Dana Cowin served as theeditor-in-chief ofFood & Wine for 21 years.^[7] She resigned from the post in late 2015.^[7] In February 2016, Nilou Motamed replaced her as editor-in-chief.^[8] In June 2017, Hunter Lewis replaced her as editor-in-chief.^[9]

The Food & Wine Classic is an annual event presented byFood & Wine Magazine since 1986. The Classic takes place inAspen, Colorado in June of each year. The event featureswine tasting, cooking demonstrations, and featured speakers as well as a cooking competition.^[10]

The event celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2012, featuring singersCee Lo Green,Elvis Costello, athleteWes Welker, and chefBobby Flay.^[11]

A trip to the event is offered as part of the grand prize for the winner of the reality television seriesTop Chef.^[12]

On June 19, 2011,QVC did broadcast theFood & Wine Classic live.^[13]

Since 1988,Food & Wine has published an annual list of the ten best new chefs in America. Among the notable chefs recognized by the magazine are:Thomas Keller (1988),Nobu Matsuhisa (1989),Nancy Silverton (1990),Tom Colicchio (1991),Eric Ripert (1992),Nancy Oakes (1993),Michael Cordúa (1994),Anne Quatrano (1995),Barbara Lynch (1996),Daniel Patterson (1997),Michael Symon (1998),John Besh (1999),Andrew Carmellini (2000),Wylie Dufresne (2001),Grant Achatz (2002),Stuart Brioza (2003),Graham Elliot (2004),Daniel Humm (2005),David Chang (2006),Gabriel Rucker (2007),Ethan Stowell (2008), Linton Hopkins (2009),Roy Choi (2010), and Carlo Mirarchi (2011).^[14]

All of the Best New Chefs are listed below by year:^[15]

Food & Wine magazine was purchased from American Express Publishing by Time Inc. on October 1, 2013.^[16] Some editorial offices moved to the Time Inc office ofSouthern Living inBirmingham,Alabama in late 2017, and others remain in New York City. Meredith Corporation acquired Time Inc. in 2018. Dotdash closed on the purchase of Meredith in December 2021 to create the new company Dotdash Meredith, later rebranded as People Inc.

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