TMS Launches Weekly Wolfgang Puck Column

Posted on April 4, 2003

Tribune Media Services (TMS) has launched Wolfgang Puck's Kitchen, a weekly syndicated column featuring professional cooking secrets and easy home recipes from world renowned chef Wolfgang Puck. In each weekly feature, Wolfgang shares his passion for food through an expert tip and recipe, developed and tested to work in home kitchens. Each column concludes with one of Wolfgang's own recipes.

"Today's home cooks want delicious food with exciting flavors that they can cook easily for their families and friends," said Chef Puck. "With Wolfgang Puck's Kitchen, I try to share my ideas with some recipes that can really make cooking fun and pleasurable. I am delighted that Tribune Media Services and the participating newspapers will be making my new column available to as many people as possible."

Wolfgang Puck, one of the most famous and well-respected chefs in the world, got his start in the humblest of places -- his mother's Austrian kitchen. It was there that Puck first developed his passion for simple, honest home cooking. As he ascended the culinary ranks -- cooking in some of the greatest European restaurants, mastering both classic and innovative culinary techniques -- he combined the "melting pot" of American's diverse cooking styles with local ingredients to pioneer what came to be defined as "fusion" cuisine. Puck never lost touch with his roots. His culinary mission remains the same today as it was in his mother's kitchen: making the most of your ingredients.

Wolfgang Puck's heritage has spawned a culinary empire that includes fine dining, casual dining, catering, publishing, cookware, television, radio and Internet programming, consumer packaged foods, franchising, licensing and merchandising. Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc. (WPW), of which Wolfgang Puck is chairman, is the corporation that encompasses a wide range of business enterprises under the Wolfgang Puck(R) brand. Among his media content activities are a weekly show on cable TV's Food Network, regular appearances on ABC television's Good Morning America, and five best-selling cookbooks including the new Live, Love, Eat! published October 2002.

Tribune Media Services (TMS) is a domestic and international provider of information and entertainment products for print, electronic and on-air media. TMS distributes television and movie listings and related editorial content under the TMS/TV Data and Zap2it brands; syndicates and licenses comics, features and opinion columns; creates and syndicates a variety of on-line information products; licenses editorial content from national periodicals; and manages national advertising networks. Through its Knight Ridder/Tribune partnership, TMS also markets news and features, information graphics and multimedia content. Headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Glens Falls, N.Y., Denver, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Toronto, London and Hong Kong. TMS is a subsidiary of Tribune Company.