Chef
Daniel Wright
You might call Cincinnati chef Daniel Wright the Hot Dog King, for the wild combinations he puts together at his Senate Pub. Take the Hello Kitty: a beef hot dog, wasabi mayo, ponzu-wasabi slaw, bacon, wasabi peas, and sesame seeds. Or the Croque Madame: beef hot dog, béchamel, black forest ham, b...
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Woodford Reserve Distillery
In the heart of Kentucky bourbon country, the Woodford Reserve Distillery occupies a historic site in Versailles, where father and son Elijah and Oscar Pepper and their master distiller, Dr. James Crow, created 19th-century bourbon that defined the spirit. Today, the master distiller is Chris Morris...
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Woodland Farm
“A home where the buffalo roam” sounds like a throwback to pioneer days, but for wife and husband Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, owners of Goshen, Kentucky’s, Woodland Farm, it’s just another way to describe where they live. Woodland’s herd of American buffalo (or bison; the terms are u...
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Di Palo’s Fine Foods
For four generations, the Di Palo family has kept New Yorkers stocked with Italian cheeses, cured meats, and a pantry’s worth of other fine Italian products from its Little Italy location. Founded as a latteria (dairy store) in 1910 by Savino Di Palo, after he’d immigrated to the United States f...
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Pino Prime Meats
Before Greenwich Village was filled with designer clothing shops and trendy restaurants, it was packed with small dairy shops, mom-and-pop grocers, and butcher shops where customers and owners knew each other well because they saw each other just about every day. Pino Prime Meats is one of those—a...
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Il Laboratorio del Gelato
Creamy, custardy Italian-style gelato gets its flavor on at il laboratorio del gelato, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Yes, there are vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry, but those are just three of the more than 200 flavors that owner John Snyder has formulated since he opened the “lab” in 200...
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Santa Monica Farmers Market
There are terrific farmers’ markets all over the country (more than 700 in California alone), but the Santa Monica Farmers Market may be the queen of markets. It’s one of the largest, most diverse grower-only certified markets in the United States. And if you pop by one of the four weekly market...
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Rancho Bella Santé
A 120-acre avocado ranch in the hills above Temecula, California, Rancho Bella Santé is owned by Scott and Debbie McIntyre, who also grow lemons, wine grapes, and tangos (seedless mandarin oranges) on their sustainably farmed property. The McIntyres, who raised their family on the ranch, open it fo...
Chef
Gabriel Rucker
If you were to make a film about Gabriel Rucker, chef and co-owner of Le Pigeon in Portland, Oregon, it might be called The Natural. Because that’s the phrase, usually interspersed with “creative,” that critics and colleagues use time and again to describe the 32-year-old Rucker’s way with i...
Chef
Greg Denton
Greg Denton and his co-chef and wife, Gabrielle Quiñónez Denton, may be two of Food & Wine magazine’s 2014 Best New Chefs, but the seasoned duo has been in the business of cooking great food for years. With Ox, their Portland-based, Argentina-influenced beef-centric restaurant, though, they ...
