Whois & Analysis for saveur.com

Saveur is a gourmet, food, wine, and travel magazine that specializes in essays about various world cuisines.

Its slogan—Savor a World of Authentic Cuisine—signals the publication's focus on enduring culinary traditions, as opposed to ephemeral food trends.

Celebrated for its distinctive, naturalistic style of food photography and vivid writing, Saveur has been notable for placing food in its cultural context, and the magazine's popularity has coincided with a growing interest among American readers in the stories behind the way the world eats.

The publication was co-founded by Dorothy Kalins, Michael Grossman, Christopher Hirsheimer, and Colman Andrews, who was also the editor-in-chief from 1996 to 2001.

It was started by Meigher Communications in 1994.

World Publications bought Saveur and Garden Design in 2000.

World Publications was renamed Bonnier Corporation in 2007.

A popular feature is the "Saveur 100", an annual list of "favorite restaurants, food, drink, people, places and things".

Cooking or cookery is the art, technology and craft of preparing food for consumption with the use of heat.

Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions and trends.

The ways or types of cooking also depend on the skill and type of training an individual cook has.

Cooking is done both by people in their own dwellings and by professional cooks and chefs in restaurants and other food establishments.

Cooking can also occur through chemical reactions without the presence of heat, such as in ceviche, a traditional South American dish where fish is cooked with the acids in lemon or lime juice.

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body.

It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals.

The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells to provide energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.

Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for .

Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat detritus.

Fungi digest organic matter outside of their bodies as opposed to animals that digest their food inside their bodies.

For humans, eating is an activity of daily living.

Some individuals may limit their amount of nutritional intake.

This may be a result of a lifestyle choice, due to hunger or famine, as part of a diet or as religious fasting.

A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption.

In addition to their basic function of satisfying thirst, drinks play important roles in human culture.

Common types of drinks include plain water, milk, juices, coffee, tea, and soft drinks.

In addition, alcoholic drinks such as wine, beer, and liquor, which contain the drug ethanol, have been part of human culture and development for 8,000 years.