The People · Page 94
The artisans of taste.
Winemaker
Fiona Figlmüller
Vienna, Austria
## The Climb Today, Fiona Figlm is a sommelier, a title that suggests not only authority but a certain quiet command: the kind of palate trusted to read a room, to calibrate a…
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Flavio De Maio
Rome, Italy
His cooking is built on generous portions, fidelity to tradition, and close attention to ingredients. In Flavio De Maio’s hands, that produces a Roman style that is direct rather…
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Flavio Prà
Cellore d'Illasi, Italy
Flavio Prà is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Corte Allodola S.r.l. His career is compact and direct: years of intense work and experience before a 2000 founding, followed by…
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Flavio Saglietti
La Morra, Italy
Flavio Saglietti is the winemaker of Azienda Agricola Saglietti Flavio in La Morra, where continuity matters as much as technique. Since 1997, he has held the winery and winemaker…
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Florence Quiot
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France
Florence Quiot is a thirteenth-generation member of Famille Quiot and co-leads its estates with her brother Jean-Baptiste. Their family vineyards span Châteauneuf-du-Pape,…
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Chef
Flores Postigo
Pizarra, Spain
Flores Postigo is chef of Don Joaquín Asador in Pizarra, Málaga, where the work is defined by fire, timing, and the discipline of traditional cooking. His name sits on a style of…
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Florian André
Tavel, France
Florian Andr is the winemaker at Château de Manissy in Tavel, France, where the work is tied to Elzéard Rosé and to a practical rule set for farming and drinking: “Our customers…
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Florian Mollet
Saint Satur, France
## Coming Up Since 2000, the winemaking at Domaine Roc de l'Abbaye has been shaped by Florian Mollet through the slow, repeat work of cellar decisions, seasonal judgment, and…
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Florian Richter
Fontjoncouse, France
Florian Richter has been the winemaker at Domaine des Deux Clés in Languedoc, France, since 2015, a position built on technical discipline and a habit of working across sites,…
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Florian Robert Müller
Schwaigern, Germany
## Coming Up Since 2016, Weingut Florian Robert Müller in Schwaigern am Heuchelberg has been a working site for a cellar style built on restraint and place. The job reads as…
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Chef
Fong Chi Chung
Singapore, Singapore
Founder of Putien in Singapore, Fong Chi Chung turned a modest Kitchener Road beginning into a restaurant name now linked with MICHELIN-Starred Authentic Fujian (Hinghwa) cuisine.…
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Chef
Ford Fry
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
## The Climb Ford Fry’s route into hospitality was built on repetition before polish. He entered New England Culinary Institute in Vermont with little formal kitchen experience,…
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Chef
Foster Phillips
Los Angeles, California, United States
From a Los Angeles barbecue tradition dated to 1980 to the Executive Chef role at Phillips Bar-B-Que, Foster Phillips’s work sits in oak smoke, sauce, and the measured discipline…
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Fran Aguda
Barcelona, Spain
The half-liquid olive is the clearest read on Fran Aguda’s kitchen: olive oil concentrated into a thin gel membrane, then released in a single bite of briny fat and clean olive…
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Winemaker
Fran Asencio
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain
Fran Asencio works in wine with the discipline of someone trained in another technical field first. Born in Seville, he came into the trade after civil engineering, then moved…
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Francesc Grimalt
Felanitx, Spain
Francesc Grimalt works as winemaker at 4Kilos Vinícola in Felanitx, where the wines stay in step with the island terrain that shaped him. As a Mallorca vintner and the son of a…
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Francesca Bonfadini
Iseo, Italy
## Coming Up The work at Bonfadini in Iseo is defined by the dual discipline of ownership and winemaking, with Francesca Bonfadini shaping a house rooted in Franciacorta sparkling…
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Chef
Francesca Fucci
Geneva, Switzerland
## The Path Kitchen formation across Rome, Monaco, and Geneva set the working register for Francesca Fucci: precision learned through serious brigades, adaptation across…
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Francesco Baricci
Montalcino, Italy
A third-generation winemaker at the family estate, Francesco Baricci works from Montosoli, where vineyard identity and family name are treated as the same fact. The relationship…
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Chef
Francesco Bisceglie
London, United Kingdom
His cooking reads as the working memory of a kitchen: instinct carried forward, then checked against repetition, timing, and the discipline that comes from years on the line. For…
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Winemaker
Francesco Brigatti
Suno, Italy
Francesco Brigatti’s work at Azienda Agricola Francesco Brigatti in Suno, Piemonte, Italy is built on gentle practices, minimal intervention, and careful aging. Since the…
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Francesco Brugnano
Partinico, Italy
## Coming Up Chief executive leadership is the defining function at BRUGNANO WINES in Partinico, Italy, and Francesco Brugnano holds that brief. In a family-named company, the…
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Chef
Francesco Brutto
Mazzorbo, Italy
Francesco Brutto is chef of Venissa in Mazzorbo, a post he took in 2017. At Venissa, the work has become the clearest marker of his professional identity: not a chain of…
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Winemaker
Francesco Cadinu
Mamoiada, Italy
Francesco Cadinu has served as winemaker at Cantina Francesco Cadinu in Mamoiada, Sardinia, Italy, since 2015, working from a winery that carries his own name and was founded that…
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Chef
Francesco Casini
Calvi, France
Francesco Casini works in a register of Italian and Mediterranean fine dining, with Corsican influence set into the menu rather than added on as decoration. At JOIA Restaurant in…
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Chef
Francesco Costanzo
Milan, Italy
Francesco Costanzo’s defining role is Chef Owner of Pastamadre in Milan, a title that neatly captures the duality of his work: both the person at the stove and the one steering…
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Winemaker
Francesco Drusian
Valdobbiadene, Italy
## Coming Up Since 1988, Francesco Drusian has run Drusian in Valdobbiadene, Veneto, with a focus on Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG sparkling wines. The work is shaped by…
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Winemaker
Francesco Gagliardi
Bolgheri, Italy
Francesco Gagliardi is the internal winemaker at Campo alla Sughera in Bolgheri, a role that places him at the center of the estate’s cellar life and day-to-day production. His…
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Francesco Gioffreda
Gaiole in Chianti, Italy
## The Climb The early discipline came from outside the cellar: Francesco Gioffreda worked as a manager at a big international company before turning fully to wine. That business…
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Francesco Iandolo
Brignano Frascata, Italy
Francesco Iandolo’s career has the quiet, decisive shape of a turn taken with intention. It is a move that defines him: a passage from the precision of numbers to a place that now…
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Francesco Intorcia
Marsala, Italy
Francesco Intorcia works as a team member at Francesco Intorcia & Figli snc in Marsala, Italy, where Marsala wine is handled as a living house style, not a category. The work sits…
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Chef
Francesco Laera
Noci, Italy
His cooking is guided by disciplined clarity: technique is used to sharpen local flavour, not to cover it, and the result is a menu built in clean lines, balanced contrasts, and a…
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Winemaker
Francesco Laudicina
Marsala, Italy
In 2008, Francesco Laudicina and Michele Cottone gave new life to the old cellar at Baglio Oro in Marsala, Italy. The work turned a site of quiet inheritance into a modern winery,…
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Francesco Lombardo
Gracciano Di Montepulciano, Italy
Francesco Lombardo is associated with Tuscan wines, and the work sits in a register of measure, layering, and attention to what lies beneath the surface. Wine, in his framing, is…
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Francesco Monaci
Montalcino, Italy
## Coming Up Since 1991, Francesco Monaci has been the proprietor and winemaker of Agostina Pieri, and the value of that tenure is in repetition handled well: season after season,…
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Winemaker
Francesco Perillo
Venosa, Italy
## Coming Up Since 2012, the president’s brief at Cantina di Venosa, Italy has been defined less by display than by continuity. In Francesco Perillo’s case, the work is presented…
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Francesco Piaggi
Borgo Priolo, Italy
## The Path Since 2018, Francesco Piaggi has worked in Fradé as co-founder and winemaker, with the project also identifying him as founder. The role places him inside both the…
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Winemaker
Francesco Piona
Sommacampagna, Italy
Francesco Piona is the winemaker of Cavalchina in Sommacampagna, Italy, and the fourth family generation within Azienda Agricola Cavalchina. In a line of work shaped by…
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Francesco Rotolo
Cividale del Friuli, Italy
Francesco Rotolo moves through wine in two registers at once: the tangible and the expressive, the work done behind the scenes and the work that brings it into view. He founded…
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Francesco Sanapo
Milan, Italy
Francesco Sanapo is an award-winning Italian barista and taster who co-founded Ditta Artigianale with Patrick Hoffer in 2013. He continues to lead the company's specialty-coffee…
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Winemaker
Francesco Versio
Castagnole Delle Lanze, Italy
## The Path Training at Alba's Umberto 1 wine school gave Francesco Versio a first grounding in the kind of cellar discipline Piemonte expects: close attention to Nebbiolo,…
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Chef
Francesco Zimone
London, United Kingdom
## The Path Executive responsibility, ownership, and an American address are all carried in Francesco Zimone’s title. At L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele, the work is less about…
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Winemaker
Francis Blanchet
Pouilly Sur Loire, France
Francis Blanchet makes wine at Domaine Francis Blanchet in Pouilly-sur-Loire, where the work is tied to a single estate and a single place. In the Loire Valley, that kind of…
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Chef
Francis Guzmán
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Before Francis Guzm opened Vianda in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the work was already laid out across a disciplined sequence of kitchens and schools. The Culinary Institute of America…
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Chef
Francis Mallman
Mendoza, Argentina
## The Climb Cookery on a boat for tourists on Lake Nahuel Huapi was where Francis Mallman started in 1970, and the setting matters: a moving kitchen, a fixed service, and the…
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Winemaker
Francisco Barona
Burgos, Spain
Francisco Barona has been winemaker at Bodegas y Viñedos Barona in Burgos, Spain, since 2009. Old vines sit at the center of that work, giving the wines their frame and requiring…
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Francisco Montenegro
Penajoia, Portugal
## The Climb Since 2001, Francisco Montenegro has held the dual role of winemaker and founder-owner at Aneto Wines. The title is administrative on paper, but the work is defined…
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Francisco Muñoz Portales
Benalmádena, Spain
## The Path The craft here is defined by disciplined work with the sea, and Francisco Muñoz Portales has made that emphasis explicit in a public profile shaped by coastal cooking…
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Francisco Ruiz
Mérida, Mexico
## The Climb Francisco Ruiz has built his career through measured, deliberate movement: the sort of progression that reads as control before the first plate leaves the pass. As…
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Winemaker
Franck Balthazar
Cornas, France
In a region where steep slopes invite heavy language, the work stays more matter-of-fact: close attention to site, to season, and to what Cornas will and will not give in a given…
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Franck Monge
Vercheny, France
## The Climb Winemaking here is split between cellar discipline, vineyard work, and the tempo of harvest. At Cave Monge Granon, Franck Monge’s role sits in that practical middle…
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Franck Mousset
Courthézon, France
Franck Mousset works at the junction of vineyard, cellar, and estate control, with LE CLOS SAINT-MICHEL in Sorgues naming the craft directly. As a vigneron, Mousset’s role is tied…
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Winemaker
Franck Pascal
Baslieux Sous Chatillon, France
Franck Pascal is the winemaker at Champagne Franck Pascal in Baslieux Sous Châtillon, France. ## The Path At Champagne Franck Pascal, ownership and cellar work sit in the same…
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Winemaker
Franck Schisano
Saint Hilaire, France
Franck Schisano works under a named domaine that leaves little room for abstraction: Cathare - Franck Schisano in Saint-Hilaire, France. The estate functions as both producer and…
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Co-Founder and Winemaker
Franco Batzella
Castagneto Carducci, Italy
Franco Batzella founded Batzella in 2000 and remained its founder and winemaker through 2021, building a house style that avoids easy classification. The work was set up around…
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Franco Boasso
Serralunga d'Alba, Italy
## The Climb At Gabutti Di Boasso Franco, the work is vineyard management, and Franco Boasso’s role holds agriculture, administration, and ownership in the same frame. In that…
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Franco de Lazo
Essex, Massachusetts, United States
His work is identified with fried clams, the dish that most clearly marks his name at a venue known for classic New England seafood shack staples. In a kitchen where the menu…
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Franco Fiorino
Serralunga d'Alba, Italy
Franco Fiorino is an oenologist and winemaker at the Bruna Grimaldi family estate in the Langhe. He manages vineyards and cellar work and is described by the winery as a central…
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Chef
Franco Hurtado
Lima, Peru
The work is grounded in place: local, seasonal produce handled inside one of Barranco’s most particular hotel dining rooms, and translated into Contemporary Peruvian cuisine with…
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Winemaker
Franco Maria Martinetti
Turin, Italy
Franco M. Martinetti, born in Turin, Italy, has described wine in terms that put craft and value in the same sentence: “We live to produce fine wines that enrich the taste and…
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Franco Tiraboschi
Peschiera del Garda, Italy
## The Climb Since 1992, Franco Tiraboschi has been the founder and winemaker of Ca' Lojera, a role that carries both authorship and responsibility for the estate’s line of work.…
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Franco Zanovello
Cinto Euganeo, Italy
## At a Glance The Euganean Hills are a geology lesson in working terms: volcanic rock, older and newer limestone, and soils that shift by origin and age. Franco Zanovello frames…
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Winemaker
François Bertheau
Chambolle-Musigny, France
François Bertheau has been winemaker at Domaine François Bertheau in Chambolle-Musigny, France, since 2004, and the date still reads like a hinge in his story. That year, after…
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François Capdemourlin
Saint-Émilion, France
## Coming Up Technical direction at Vignobles Capdemourlin has been held by François Capdemourlin since 2000, alongside his technical direction at Château Cap de Mourlin. The work…
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François Chidaine
Montlouis-sur-Loire, France
François Chidaine has been the steady hand behind Domaine François Chidaine in Montlouis-sur-Loire, Touraine, France since 1989, the same year he created the estate. Born into a…
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François Constantin
Argnou Ayent, Switzerland
Founded in 1987, the family business has grown around a five-hectare property cultivated under integrated production, where the discipline of the vineyard and the patience of the…
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François Crochet
Bué, France
François Crochet has been the winegrower and winemaker at Domaine François Crochet in Bué since 1998, when he took over the family estate from his father, Robert. That handover…
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François Delhon; Jean-Philippe Léca
Puissalicon, France
François Delhon; Jean-Philippe Léca is the co-owner responsible for marketing, communications, and sales at Domaine Bassac. ## Where They Are Now François Delhon; Jean-Philippe…
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Owner & Winemaker, Château Ampélia
François Despagne
Saint Philippe D Aiguille, France
François Despagne is the owner, winemaker, and viticulturist of Château Grand Corbin-Despagne in Saint-Émilion, France, where his work brings together the full arc of a family…
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François Estager
Pomerol, France
François Estager holds the managing-director brief at Château La Cabanne in Pomerol, with ownership also extended to Château La Cabanne and Château La Papeterie. The estate itself…
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François Jouard
Chassagne-Montrachet, France
Winegrowing in Chassagne-Montrachet is a place-bound craft before it is a biography. At Domaine Vincent & François Jouard in Chassagne-Montrachet, France, François Jouard is…
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François Mikulski
Meursault, France
## The Path The work at Domaine François Mikulski in Meursault has been built through repetition: vines first, cellar next, and then the discipline of taking over in 1991. From…
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François Parent
Pommard, France
Winemaker François Parent works at François Parent in Burgundy, a name that reads less like a label than a lineage. The estate shares his name, and he comes from the Pommard…
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Chef
François Perret
Paris, France
François Perret’s pastry work is built on precision, restraint, and the kind of hand that understands how much can be said with very little. At Ritz Paris Le Comptoir in Paris,…
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Winemaker
Francois Villard
Saint Michel Sur Rhone, France
Francois Villard works as winemaker and owner of Domaine François Villard in Saint-Michel-sur-Rhône, in the Northern Rhône Valley of France, where slope, season, and patience set…
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Winemaker
François-Thomas Bon
Saint-Émilion, France
François-Thomas Bon’s work sits at the point where estate stewardship meets regional technical oversight. Ownership of CHÂTEAU LA GRÂCE FONRAZADE in Saint-Émilion, France,…
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Chef
Francois-Xavier Ferrol
Paris, France
The move from Normandy to the Paris region frames the training logic of French cooking: leave a regional base, enter a denser kitchen circuit, and submit appetite to discipline.…
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Winemaker
Françoise Feuillat-Juillot
Montagny Les Buxy, France
In Montagny-les-Buxy, the work starts in the vineyard, where hand harvesting, parcel-by-parcel vinification, and soil care all do different jobs for the same result: keeping each…
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Chef
Frank Brigtsen
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
## Where They Are Now Classic Creole cooking here is carried through apprenticeship, repetition, and a tight grip on technique. Frank Brigtsen began that line in 1979 under Chef…
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Chef
Frank Brija
Manhattan, New York, United States
Before Frank Brija became the owner of Patsy’s Pizzeria in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, his formation came inside the house itself: years spent working alongside the…
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Chef
Frank Buffa
New York City, New York, United States
Born in Sicily and based in South Brooklyn for more than 50 years, Frank Buffa worked from a place where neighborhood, counter, and routine stayed in close contact. The measure of…
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Chef
Frank Ciolli
New York City, New York, United States
Owner of Grimaldi’s in New York City is the title that defines Frank Ciolli’s place in pizza. The work behind that title is precise: round, thin-crust Neapolitan-style pies with…
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Winemaker
Frank Cornelissen
Castiglione di Sicilia, Italy
Frank Cornelissen is the Belgian winemaker behind Az. Agr. Frank Cornelissen in Castiglione di Sicilia, Italy, where the work is tied to natural wine and the volcanic character of…
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Winemaker
Frank Keyser-Kohll
Ehnen, Luxembourg
Frank Keyser-Kohll moves through the world of wine and cuisine with the quiet authority of someone whose name is already woven into the work itself. At Privatwënzer Kohll-Reuland,…
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Winemaker
Frank Maruccia
Llucmajor, Spain
Since 2009, Frank Maruccia has worked as the winemaker at Bodega Maruccia - Club de Vino 953 in Llucmajor. The house carries his name, and that matters: Bodega Maruccia Club de…
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Chef
Frank Oerthle
Lugano, Switzerland
Frank Oerthle has shaped the kitchen at Galleria Arté al Lago in Lugano as Head Chef since 2001, and that long tenure is the clearest mark of his work. Born in Germany and based…
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Chef
Frank Pinello
New York City, New York, United States
## The Path Pizza work is built on repetition: dough, timing, heat, service. Frank Pinello moved through that sequence at Angelo's, then as a pizza maker at Giacomo's in Hudson…
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Chef
Frank Rego
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
“The bakers all thought, ‘This will be too ethnic. No one will go for this.’” ## The Idea Inheritance, in this case, is not decoration around the product; it is the working brief.…
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Winemaker
Frank Schumacher
Wintrange, Luxembourg
Frank Schumacher holds the cellar-master role at Domaine Viticole Schumacher-Knepper in Wintrange, Luxembourg, where the estate’s pace is set by timing, temperature, and judgment…
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Winemaker
Frank Spiegel
Kleinfischlingen, Germany
## Coming Up Since 2008, Frank Spiegel has been Inhaber of Weinmanufaktur Ellermann-Spiegel GbR, and the role reads less like a title than a working brief: hold the house line,…
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Winemaker
Frano Milina-Bire
Korčula, Croatia
Frano Milina is the winemaker at Bire Winery in Lumbarda, Croatia, a career shaped by a single, unmistakable place: the coastal village on Korčula Island where the rhythm of the…
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Winemaker
Frantz Saumon
Montlouis-sur-Loire, France
For Frantz Saumon, formation is written most clearly through place: Montlouis-sur-Loire, France, where he works as vigneron and winemaker at Domaine Frantz Saumon. The lineage…
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Winemaker
Franz Laßnig
Glanegg, Austria
At Burg Glanegg, small-scale Carinthian wine is built around a direct relationship between site, family labor, and the medieval structure that gives the bottles their name. Franz…
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Winemaker
Franz Paschinger
Fels am Wagram, Austria
Franz Paschinger works across both vineyard and cellar at BIO Weingut Urbanihof – Familie Paschinger in Fels am Wagram, Austria, and as owner and Managing Director of BIO Weingut…
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Winemaker
Franz Pfeifhofer
Lana, Italy
Franz Pfeifhofer’s work at Bio-Weingut Zollweghof in Lana, Italy is framed by agricultural training, BIOLAND membership, and a working commitment to holistic and biodynamic…
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Winemaker
Franz Schneider
Halbturn, Austria
Franz Schneider is the owner, viticulturalist, and winemaker of Artisan Wines in Halbturn, Austria. He founded Artisan Wines in 2009. ## The Climb Precision came first in…
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Winemaker
Fred Niger
Le Landreau, France
## The Path Since 2009, Fred Niger has held the winemaker role at Domaine de l'Ecu in Loire, France. ## The Work Today At Domaine de l'Ecu in Loire, France, the work sits at the…
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Freddy Kaufman
Miami, Florida, United States
## Coming Up At Proper Sausages & Meat Market in Miami, Freddy Kaufman works in a format that rewards precision over flourish: butcher’s counter, neighborhood market, and kitchen…
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Pastry Chef
Frédéric Cassel
Fontainebleau, France
Une pâtisserie au design moderne, une chocolaterie-salon de thé au confort intimiste, la Maison Cassel comble toutes les envies gourmandes. Frédéric Cassel revisite les grands…
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Winemaker
Frédéric Chais
Pouilly Sur Loire, France
Frédéric Chais is the winemaker of Caves de Pouilly sur Loire in Pouilly-sur-Loire, France. The role sits inside a cellar whose identity is tied to its place of origin, and the…
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