Modern Farmer, a new magazine dedicated to the world of food, environmentalism and sustainability that has grown around farming in recent years, launched today online. The first print issue -- the magazine will be quarterly -- will be on newsstands later this month. From the website's "about us" section:
courtesy Modern Farmer Modern Farmer's logo
Food & Wine announced its highly anticipated list of 2013 Best New Chefs this morning. It did this not by sending out a memo -- well, there was one of those eventually -- but by tweeting out the list with a hashtag (#BNC25). Welcome to life as we know it. Congratulations, @MVoltaggio! Chef Michael Voltaggio (ink., ink.sack) was the only Los Angeles chef named to the annual list. 
Anne Fishbein Michael Voltaggio at ink.
For all of you following along, the tweets came not from Food & Wine editor-in-chief Dana Cowin's Twitter account (@fwscout), but via CBS This Morning's (@CBSThisMorning). The 2013 honorees will be featured in the July issue of the magazine and will also attend the 31st annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen from June 14-16. For the full list, turn the page.
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Yesterday, Bon Appetit magazine put out a list of the 20 most important restaurants in the country. These are the restaurants, according to the magazine, that:
djjewelz via Twitter The one L.A. restaurant that made Bon Appetit's 20 Most Important List
...define how we eat out. They're the fearless spots that drive chefs to innovate, restaurateurs to imitate, and the rest of us to line up. In short, these are the restaurants that matter -- right now.
Of this list of 20, can you guess which solitary L.A. restaurant made the cut?
If you've ever followed a Cook's Illustrated recipe the way it is intended to be followed -- that is, precisely -- and, as pleased as punch as you may have been with the outcome, nonetheless still thought, Gee, they take the fun out of cooking -- well, that's sort of the point. "I hate the idea that cooking should be a celebration or a party," Christopher Kimball said in last weekend's New York Times Magazine. 
J. Garbee Chris Kimball
The profile of the Cook's Illustrated founder and host of America's Test Kitchen was part of a larger issue on food and drink (other articles: Mark Bittman hits the Central Valley, food on the campaign trail). Now that things like debates and Dodger games and summer BBQs are over and done, maybe you'll have the time to peruse the issue. Starting, perhaps, with the Kimball piece.
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This week's Newsweek cover story is titled "The 101 Best Places to Eat In the World." The restaurants were chosen by well-known chefs. You can see the list on the Daily Beast, Newsweek's partner website. 
A. Scattergood
There are a couple of problems with the issue, however, one of them being the cover image, which, in all its asparagus-porn glory, appears to have already been used in 2008 by Observer Food Monthly, among others.
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Calling Los Angeles high school geniuses! Chicago has its very own awesome food blog and magazine written by high school kids. Surely L.A. can top that. 
Courtesy The Buffet
Most of us won't be spending time at the ultra-exclusive Soho House, a members-only club. Which is fine by most of us as well. But if you'd like a behind-the-scenes look at professional food and cooking, they do have something you might be interested in. 
Rachael Narins Cookhouse Magazine
Through a novel approach to getting chefs excited about working at one of its 16 properties, Soho House Group launched two print magazines to focus on those restaurants, the food and what they do. The club within the club, so to speak. The magazines -- Cookhouse for restaurants and House Tonic for bars; both published quarterly by Dan Flower -- focus on the now ubiquitous farm-to-fork philosophy and the ways the Soho House Group restaurants approach that.
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Bon Appétit magazine has come up with the foodie answer to the weekend music festival: a monster three-day tour of restaurants, bars and music venues it's calling the "Grub Crawl." It's debuting in three cities this summer: Brooklyn (natch), New Orleans and, to our pleasant surprise, Los Angeles. 
Anne Fishbein Pizza and Lardo at Pizzeria Mozza
The paragraph detailing the Los Angeles tour, which takes place July 13-15, starts off with one of those classic backhanded compliments: "The City of Angels is swiftly emerging as more than just a sanctuary for celebrities." Right. Thanks.
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Screenshot of Food & Wine's Magazine's Twitter page
Yesterday Time Magazine named its 100 Most Influential People in the World, proving yet again that lists are more important than real news. Among the 100 super-important people are two chefs, both of whom unquestionably deserve to be at the top of any list that includes foodists. (One could not say the same about other people on the list, regardless of sphere of influence. Tim Tebow? Anonymous? Chelsea Handler??) So who were the chefs? Guess.
OK, don't guess. Rene Redzepi (Noma) and José Andrés (The Bazaar, Jaleo, Made In Spain, etc.) made the cut. Congratulations! And because Time got interesting and happily relevant people to write the prose that goes along with the naming, we also get to read Ferran Adria on Redzepi ("We often talk about the best chef in the world when in reality, cuisine -- like other activities -- cannot be measured, quantified or calculated.") and Anthony Bourdain on Andrés ("I was holed up in my room in a nearly empty hotel in Haiti, waiting for the hurricane said to be headed our way.") Worth the price of admission there.
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