Wine Wisdom: Andrea Robinson

by jbfauthor on February 09, 2010

One of the few female master sommeliers in the world, an inductee into our Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America, and a JBF Award winner, Andrea Robinson is in high demand for her advice on wine. We recently caught up with her to get the details on her new project and her suggestions for a few value-minded quaffers.

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Food Matters: JBF's Who's Who at NYU

by jbfauthor on November 06, 2009

Yesterday, almost 25 years to the day after the Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America was founded jointly by Cook’s and Restaurant Business magazines, our vice president, Mitchell Davis, participated in a panel at NYU Fales Library on the food world intelligentsia. (In 1990 the James Beard Foundation folded the Who’s Who into their annual awards program.) Organized and moderated by restaurant consultant and JBF Who’s Who member Clark Wolf (inducted in 2008), the panel addressed the changing role of elites in matters culinary. Wolf, who helped Cook’s publisher Christopher Kimball organize the Who’s Who group at its onset, asked panelists to describe how they think the food world has changed over the last 25 years. Davis, who completed his Ph.D. in NYU’s Food Studies department earlier this year, presented some of

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Q & A: Barbara Fairchild

by jbfauthor on September 23, 2009

Barbara Fairchild was inducted into our Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America in 2000; since then she's freshened up the print version of Bon Appétit and expanded the magazine's website. She's now putting the finishing touches on its own iPhone app, which will surface later this year. Read on to hear why bologna is her favorite sandwich meat and more.

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Q & A: Wolfgang Puck

by jbfauthor on June 17, 2009

He's opened countless restaurants, hosted one the earliest Food Network programs, and prepared the maiden Beard House benefit dinner in 1987. See what Wolfgang Puck—one of the first inductees into our Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America—has to say about his upcoming projects, America's "food revolution," and his mother's Wienerschnitzel.

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