Wolfgang Puck: Chef to the stars

The Falstaff Travel Editors, 08.09.2023

More than 50 years ago, a small-town boy from Sankt Veit an der Glan in Austria set out to conquer the culinary world. Today, Wolfgang Puck reigns over a restaurant empire with 5,000 employees, with his name adorning everything from frozen pizzas and canned soup to cookware and Formula 1 racing cars.

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Breakfast at Palais Coburg in Vienna. Wolfgang Puck orders black coffee, nothing else. His sister Christine has come to the capital to see him. They don’t spend a lot of time chatting about the old days: “I don’t look back much,” he says. His Austrian dialect is tinged with American. “For me, it’s today and the future that count!”

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