My kind of interview: Great subject, no phone involved.
Post Category → New York City
When global met local
A chef with her own great story is expanding Kalustyan’s cornucopia by buying close to home.
A seed catalog, come to life
I always thought Jeff and Adina Bialas do couture farming. The story turned out to be richer than that.
Bitters. And Armenian sweets
News in plain sight: A great store just got greater.
On the trail of meat without borders
Shades of cocoa
A great butcher shop I undersold; pictures are worth a few thousand words. And a great video that will be undercompensated.
In praise of the anti-Deen
These days I would not cross the street for the most famous chef on the planet, whichever one of dozens he might be. But nearly 20 years ago my consort and I heard Edna Lewis was cooking in Brooklyn and headed straight to Gage & Tollner on Fulton Mall, certain the reward would be a meal for the memory books.
It was a different time, but Edna Lewis was a very different celebrity chef. Regional American cooking had only recently been codified, and she was to Southern cooking what Alice Waters was to Californian, what Paul Prudhomme was to Cajun. Continue reading
As the grief orgy nears . . .
Guess it’s time to re-link a little too much I did for The Awl (“Be Less Stupid”).