Topic: Jim Denevan

Meet Outstanding in the Field Founder Jim Denevan

On a breezy afternoon last summer, nearly 150 food lovers from around the country gathered at Johnson's Backyard Garden, a 60-acre organic vegetable farm in Austin. For nearly half the year, Denevan and his crew travel across America, staging gourmet meals ...

Savor a feast on the farm

The dinner guests came from as far as Florida, but the squash blossoms sprang from the soil beneath our feet. "Nice night to eat out," Jim Denevan says.. "There's a strange phenomenon in our culture that makes celebrities out of chefs ...

100-Mile Hike For Art's Sake

A few weeks ago, artist Jim Denevan hiked over 100 miles in a dry Nevada lake bed to create the world's largest free-hand drawing: Denevan uses no formal measurement tools; using only his eyes and instinct for space, he draws by ...

Culinary Travel

Eat Like a Local, Even If You're Not One...Open up a menu, and you’ll often find a bevy of buzzwords surrounding the culinary movement: local, sustainable, fresh, organic. As any savvy traveler knows, you need to take buzzwords with ...