Wolfgang's Revolution, at Your Gates
Katie Workman is the Editor-in-Chief and Chief Marketing Officer of Cookstr.com, a Web site devoted to great, tested recipes from chefs and cookbook authors. She writes about food for various blogs and Web sites. Katie is on the board of City Harvest, and actively involved in Share Our Strength. She lives in New York City with her husband her two boys, ages 6 and 9.
No wood-burning oven in your kitchen? No problem. Bring haute to your house, and more specifically your backyard, by throwing pizza instead of pork chops on the grill this weekend.
The West Coast Gossip Girl
Originally from Los Angeles, Isabel Kaplan is currently a student at Harvard University. Her first novel, Hancock Park, was published this summer by HarperCollins.
At 19, Harvard student Isabel Kaplan has just published her first novel, Hancock Park, which exposes the excesses of L.A.'s wealthy high-school elite. Read the story behind the book.
Spago restaurant. Wolfgang Puck opened Spago in 1982, creating imaginative California cuisine that pushed the envelope and got patrons excited about food. Since then, the LA dining scene has changed dramatically and Spago hasn't missed a...
Andrew Zimmern is a food writer, TV personality, chef and teacher. As the co-creator, host, and contributing producer of Travel Channel's hit series, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Zimmern travels the world, exploring the food in its own terroir wherever it's found. He is also a dining columnist at Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine and his writing appears in numerous national publications including Food Arts, Restaurant Business, NWA Traveler and Bon Appetit.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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