Food & Wine
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| Editor in Chief | Nilou Motamed |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation (June 2012) | 947,855[1] |
| Year founded | 1978 |
| Company | Time Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Website |
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| ISSN | 0741-9015 |
Food & Wine is a monthly magazine published by Time Inc. It was founded in 1978[2] by Ariane and Michael Batterberry. It features recipes, cooking tips, travel information, restaurant reviews, chefs, 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.
History
Michael and Ariane Batterberry's early writing work on food included the 1973 book On the Town in New York, From 1776 to the Present, a culinary history of New York City that 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 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 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 "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 '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.[3]
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. 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.[4][5]
Editor-in-Chief
Dana Cowin served as the editor-in-chief of Food & Wine for 21 years.[6] Cowin was previously the executive editor of Mademoiselle and the managing editor of HG magazine. She graduated from Brown University. She is married to Barclay Livingstone Palmer, a field producer with CNN.[7] She resigned from the post in late 2015.[6] In February 2016 Nilou Motamed replaced her as editor-in-chief.[8]
Food & Wine Classic
The Food & Wine Classic is an annual event presented by Food & Wine Magazine. The Classic takes place in Aspen, Colorado 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 19, 2011, QVC will broadcast the Food & Wine Classic live from Aspen, Colorado from Noon to 3pm EST[9]
Purchase by Time Inc.
Food & Wine Magazine was purchased from American Express Publishing by Time Inc. on October 1, 2013.[10]
See also
References
- ↑ "eCirc for Consumer Magazines". Alliance for Audited Media. June 30, 2012. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
- ↑ "Top 100 U.S. Magazines by Circulation" (PDF). PSA Research Center. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
- ↑ Kucynski, Alex "PUBLIC LIVES; 30 Years of Love and Chronicling Cuisine", The New York Times, August 20, 1998. Accessed July 31, 2010.
- ↑ Fox, Margalit. "Michael Batterberry, Influential Food Editor, Dies at 78", The New York Times, July 29, 2010. Accessed July 30, 2010.
- ↑ Schudel, Matt. "Michael Batterberry, 78, dies; editor of Food Arts magazine", The Washington Post, July 31, 2010. Accessed July 31, 2010.
- 1 2 Florence Fabricant (23 February 2016). "Nilou Motamed is the New Editor of Food & Wine Magazine". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ↑ "Weddings; Dana Cowin, Barclay Palmer, The New York Times, 17 May 1998
- ↑ "Meet F&W's New Editor: Nilou Motamed". Food & Wine. 23 February 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ↑ "QVC Program Guide for 'Food & Wine' '". QVC. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ↑ "Media It's Official: Time Inc. Buys AmEx's Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure Magazines". Ad Age. Crain Communications. Retrieved 11 October 2013.