Creative Director Phillip Wong Likes to Get Lost in Japanese Markets Growing up on the Upper West Side with a Haitian mother and a Cantonese father helped shape the designer Phillip Wong into something of a professional polyglot. Along with…
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Chef on the Run At the conclusion of A Matter of Taste, the 2011 documentary that vaulted chef Paul Liebrandt from a local phenomenon to one of the most celebrated chefs in America, the British expat makes an ominous vow:…
Kranch Arrives in Stores, and America Teeters on the Brink This week, for reasons not entirely clear, Heinz released something called Kranch. It may sound like the name of a child-gobbling monster from a German fairy tale, but in actuality…
NYC’s Best Pastrami Sandwiches Ordering a pastrami sandwich in NYC is a must, especially at a traditional Jewish-style delicatessen like Katz’s or Sarge’s. Some of the best pastrami we’ve tried hail from these iconic diners that have been serving New…
I Ordered the ‘Bread-Sliced’ Bagels When the internet learned of “bread-sliced” bagels — supposedly a “St. Louis secret” — the reaction was swift, definitive, and overwhelming: NO THANKS. Bagels, when sliced horizontally, are fine just as they are, the world decided,…
In Praise of the Squishy White-Bread Sandwich It must seem strange to anyone who’s ever packed a school lunch for a third-grader to think that the biggest thing going in gourmet-sandwich circles these days is egg salad on squishy white…
Spring Cookbooks Are Here Spring means many things: cherry blossoms, the return of Cadbury Creme Eggs, and a pile of new cookbooks. There are a lot of gems to choose from this year: a touching exploration of Palestinian cuisine, two…
Entire Internet Horrified by ‘St. Louis Secret’ That Actually Ruins Bagels Today I introduced my coworkers to the St Louis secret of ordering bagels bread sliced. It was a hit! Alek Krautmann (@AlekKrautmann) March 26, 2019 I‘ve reached out to…
Bagel Maven and Sticky Bun Queen Melissa Weller Is Baking Again in New York at High Street on Hudson
Bagel Maven and Sticky Bun Queen Melissa Weller Is Baking Again in New York at High Street on Hudson If you’re a connoisseur of carbs, you’re likely familiar with the work of Melissa Weller. Over the last decade or so,…
Momofuku Ko Vet Sam Yoo Opens Golden Diner in Chinatown Tomorrow Poised to open tomorrow, initially for breakfast and lunch only, Golden Diner is the brainchild of Major Food Group and Momofuku Ko vet Samuel Yoo. The main attraction is…
Everything You Need to Know About the Multistate Avocado Recall This weekend, millennial Americans woke up to devastating news. A California company issued a voluntary recall of its avocados, proving that you can’t count on anything these days. On Saturday,…
Not Your Garden-Variety Neighborhood Bistro With a relentless parade of formulaic big-money pachyderm establishments (hello, Hudson Yards!) increasingly crowding the little guy out of the city’s dining scene, the outer boroughs in general and Brooklyn in particular are fast becoming…
This Whole CBD Thing Has Officially Gone Too Far These days, CBD is so ubiquitous that there’s a good chance you’re eating some right now without even meaning to. What was once a secret of homeopathic medicine — a natural,…
How One Hypertalented Chef Shifted Gears to Become an Empire-Builder If you’ve had trouble keeping tabs on chef John Fraser over the last year or so, you aren’t alone. In June, he closed his 11-year-old Dovetail, the Michelin-starred dining room…
Americans Are Officially Falling Out of Love With Chicken Nuggets It’s been two months since Tyson Foods and Perdue were forced to collectively throw out 52,000 pounds (or 26 U.S. tons) of chicken nuggets, sparking a chicken nugget crisis the…