Why Everyone Loves East Village Cookbook
The hopeful trope is that cookbooks remain a bright spot within the otherwise-troubled publishing industry. The hundreds...
The Cult of Canyon Coffee Arrives in Brooklyn
When Natasha Pickowicz was looking for locations to host a party for her first cookbook, More Than Cake, she zeroed in on Canyon Coffee’s Echo Park café. “I was running into scores of people ......
Tom Junod Is a Waffle House Regular
When magazine writer Tom Junod was growing up, he looked forward to his father Lou’s famous spaghetti and clam sauce. “He was famous for it,” Junod says. “It was, ‘Oh my god, Dad’s gonna m...
Where Does Noma Go Now?
Earlier this week, John Foss, a chef and boat captain from Alaska who also goes by the handle Johnny Fishmonger, was driving to Los Angeles. He’d planned to support former workers of Noma who were p...
The Ample Hills Couple Is Back, Again
For Jackie Cuscuna, every trip to the grocery store is a reminder of her former life. “I walk by the first Ample Hills every day to go to the supermarket, and it hurts,” she says. Cuscuna, the co-...
Eddie Huang’s New Baohaus Is Kind of a Blast
Stick around long enough, and what’s old is new again. If you’d told me that I’d be hanging out on St. Marks Place in 2026, slurping up street food at an Eddie Huang restaurant, I’d hardly hav...
Noma Is Cooked
Just over three years ago, René Redzepi told the New York Times’ Julia Moskin that he was preparing to close his Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, at what... More »...
Padma Lakshmi Snacks While Glamming
Padma Lakshmi’s snow day last week was cozy, complete with chai with fresh honey from the beehive on her terrace. It was, in the middle of a blizzard, the calm before another hectic storm: Her new ...
The Chef With Two Michelin Stars But No Wikipedia Page
It’s just before three o’clock on a Friday afternoon, mere hours before his first opening in 11 years, and chef Gabriel Kreuther is eating a grilled-cheese sandwich. We’re standing in the kitche...
Golden Steer’s Mob Mentality
The steakhouse, that most American of restaurant genres, has in recent years been co-opted by foreign interests. To be a steakhouse with an unstamped passport will simply no longer do. There are Korea...