May 2000

Features

• Rum's New Punch

  Suddenly, mojitos are outselling martinis as Americans rediscover the spirit of the islands. With eight cocktail recipes.

• Simply Australian

  Kangaroo Island produces some of Australia's best ingredients--just what one cook needs for five quick recipes.

• Smart Kitchens

  The appliance industry has been dreaming up some amazing machines: mixers that can tell flour from sugar, coffeemakers that can talk, ovens that can do almost anything. It may sound like science fiction, but they'll all be in stores within a year.

• Great Island Wines

  Experts at 12 top resorts name the best bottles for an island meal.

• Hamptons Uncorked

  Until recently, Long Island's East End grew only potatoes and million-dollar mansions. Now it has first-rate wineries, like Wölffer estate.

• Learning from Tahiti

  On a Polynesian cruise with two French chefs, a food innocent becomes a gastronome.

• Caribbean Idyll

  Charter the Ocean Kestrel and you get a skipper to sail you anywhere, a girl Friday to bring you rum punch and a chef to feed your fantasies.

• Elixirs: High On Sugar

  Everyone's high on sugar (even health nuts) as exotic varieties appear on kitchen counters and beauty counters.

• Exploring Castaway Cuisine

• Flavors Of Madagascar

  Portraits of five indispensable seasonings that took root on this remote African island.

• 10 Best Food Islands

  From Sicily to St. Bart's, some of the finest destinations for people who travel to eat.

• A Meatball Maven

  A chef inherited a love for meatballs in all their guises.

• Alfresco Style

  Two interior designers have mastered the art of outdoor entertaining.

• Balinese Nights

  To introduce customers to Indonesian culture, a shop in L.A. throws dinner parties complete with gamelan music and gado gado.

• Undiscovered Italy

  A writer goes in search of bitter honey and other specialties of Sardinia, an island so isolated it calls the rest of Italy "The Continent."

• Souvenir Wines

  Some travelers come home with snapshots, others return with an unquenchable desire for a newly discovered wine.

• Sweet Reunion

  A star pastry chef goes home to Oahu with a food-writer pal and returns to San Francisco with ideas for great new desserts.

• Meatball Tips

• Miami Vice

  A surreal tour of the libidinous Miami Beach restaurant scene starts with "aphrodisiac cuisine" and ends up in B.E.D.