May 2004

Features

• Party Down South | Van Wyck & Van Wyck

  When mother-son party planners Mary Lynn and Bronson Van Wyck entertain on their Arkansas farm, the meal features their famous buttermilk fried chicken and their trademark flair for the dramatic.

• City Chef, Country Cooking

  Geoffrey Zakarian serves some of Manhattan's most elegant cuisine at Town. Now, as he prepares to open a casual counterpart called Country, he reimagines his most sophisticated dishes in their equally delicious and rustic incarnations.

• 5 Weekend Escapes

  • Santa Barbara County • Texas Hill Country • Southern Maine • Vail • Charlottesville

• 5 Weekend Escapes: Charlottesville

• 5 Weekend Escapes: Santa Barbara County

• 5 Weekend Escapes: Southern Maine

• 5 Weekend Escapes: Texas Hill Country

• 5 Weekend Escapes: Vail

• A Food Safari in South Africa

  On a tour that takes in cities, wine country, bushveld and beach, two young food experts lead a hunt for South Africa's biggest game, from lush Cabernets to bacon-wrapped antelope loin.

• Adventure: Stalking the Wild Kiwi | New Zealand Multisport Vacation

  While hiking, biking and walking tightropes through New Zealand, a writer tries fantastic Pinot Noirs and gets up close and personal with Mount Doom.

• Visionaries: $30 Million Barn Raising | Stone Barns Center

  New York's new Stone Barns Center—a Rockefeller-funded restaurant, farm and education complex—is aiming to change the way America thinks about food and where it comes from

• Wine: Super Tasting Rooms

  Boutique wineries are banding together to open cooperative tasting rooms that let you try wines—lots of wines—all at one time.