May 2011

Features

• Patagonia Wine: Pinot Quest

  Piero Incisa della Rocchetta is a scion of the aristocratic winemaking family behind Tuscany's groundbreaking Sassicaia. But he's also a maverick working in the middle of nowhere to produce stunning Patagonian Pinot Noir.

• Gastronaut Files: Pressure Cooker Recipes

  Nathan Myhrvold has a high-tech kitchen lab, but the device he calls magical is a basic pressure cooker.

• Go List 2011 City Guides

  F&W's always-hungry correspondents around the planet reveal the most dynamic neighborhoods in the most exciting cities and tell where to go for thrilling food, wine, style, design, art and cocktails. (Turns out all these things are sometimes on a single street!)

• Learning to Love Austrian Food

  From Wolfgang Puck to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrians have made it big in America. But Austrian food and wine—not so much. Two young Manhattan chefs are working to change that.

• Liptauer Spread and Austrian Cheese Spread with Pumpkin Seed Oil Recipes

• Desserts from William Werner

  In a CSA of sorts, San Francisco pastry chef William Werner sends members of his Tell Tale Society a bag each month filled with his super-creative desserts. The most popular ones will end up on the menu of his new restaurant, Tell Tale Preserve Company. Here, a few of those winners.

• Editor's Letter

• Evening Land Wines

  Mark Tarlov made a small fortune as a Hollywood producer, and he's set on spending it to establish his new winery, Evening Land. Now, he's making world-class bottlings and creating house wines for America's biggest chefs.

• Andrew Zimmern: Real Recipes, Scary Foods

  On Bizarre Foods, Andrew Zimmern travels the world eating the unimaginable. At home, he transforms even his weirdest discoveries into simple, delicious dishes.

• Stanley Tucci & Ray Isle: Best Wines Under $15

  When they began hosting public television's new Vine Talk, actor Stanley Tucci and F&W's Ray Isle set out to find inexpensive but terrific wines to pour their celebrity guests backstage. Here, their best finds for under $15.

• Top Chef Top 10: Tre Wilcox

  The Top Chef all-star takes a break from launching his Marquee Grill in Dallas to tell F&W's Kate Krader about his passion for Muscle Milk and his weakness for Hooters fried chicken wings.

• Trendspotting: Curating

  The problem with our Internet-saturated, 24-7 culture? Too many choices. Now we need help winnowing down the options. Here, some focused guidance from skilled curators on food, wine, shopping and travel.