September 1999

Features

• Pan Handling

  New materials give wimpy nonstick cookware a tough veneer. F&W puts the technology to the test.

• Pop Culture

  The Taittingers, the first family of Champagne, not only market luxury but also know how to enjoy it--especially at Sunday luncheons in their rose garden in Reims

• Fortune Cooking

  A cookbook author shares her French-Vietnamese recipes for luck, prosperity, and happiness at a feng shui dinner party with friends in her Manhattan loft.

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• Friend of a Farmer

  Transplanted California chef Seen Lippert creates 10 satisfying farmers' market recipes that can be on the table in a New York minute.

• In Vino Veritas

  America's most passionate wine collector expounds on love, truth and his restaurant, Veritas

• Interior Motives

  Hollywood celebrities flock to Jenny Armit's Los Angeles gallery for her artist-designed furniture--and her fabulous luncheons

• Brava New World

  Led by Ferran Adriá, a genius from the Costa Brava, Catalonia's avant-garde chefs are pushing the culinary boundaries

• 50 Party Essentials

  Style arbiters and food pros dedicate themselves to party perfection. Here, their must-haves for soiree success.

• A Nude Study

  Ravioli without pasta? Certainly! Ravioli nudi are the pride of Florence.

• Wheelbarrow Chic

  His new L.A. house still resembles a construction site, but designer Bill Sofield throws a party anyway--hard hats optional

• You've Got Wine!

  A writer discovers the pleasures and terrors of buying wine at Internet auction.

• The Best Room Service

  Forty hotels around the world that deliver everything from four-star meals to voodoo love charms

• The Homesick Restaurant

  Café Habana brings the flavors of Mexico City to the expats of Manhattan

• Millennium Kitchens

  Exploring the three biggest developments in modern design

• Modern Times

  A glass house by modernist master Richard Neutra turns forty--with a party that winks at the rat pack era