The proprietor of Chateau Montelena, Jim Barrett shocked the wine world by winning the 1976 Judgment of Paris competition.

During Mr. Turner’s tenure, the restaurant chain expanded, and the Chicken McNugget, the Egg McMuffin and the Happy Meal were introduced.

Mr. Libby’s lifelong passion for growing food began when his fourth-grade teacher in Maine handed out packets of vegetable seeds to the class.

Mr. Ginsburg, who billed himself as Mr. Food, taught simple recipes in 90-second snippets aimed at hard-pressed working people, preaching an “anybody can do it” philosophy.

Mr. Taub and his father expanded Americans’ palate for Italian wine beyond Soave Bolla and Chianti.

Mr. Prial’s down-to-earth Wine Talk column in The New York Times catered to ever more sophisticated connoisseurs of fine food and drink.

Mr. Cohen, the maître d’ of the Concord Hotel for half a century, was known as King Cupid of the Catskills.

As head of the family business, Mr. Ricard acquired a number of wine and spirit labels and built a huge conglomerate.

Mr. Treboux, an unbending traditionalist at his East Side bistro, Le Veau d’Or, had a devoted clientele who wanted familiarity, not innovation.

Ms. Woods’s namesake Harlem soul-food restaurant was frequented by local and national politicians, international celebrities, tourists, epicures and ordinary neighborhood residents.