February is way cooler than January. Yeah, it is freezing, but it is the shortest month and it comes just after everyone has done their New Year exercise-binging and swearing off carbs and alcohol and all that, which means it is time to eat chocolate. Today is the first day of Chocolate and I, a [...]
Category Archives: Food
The Wright at the Guggenheim
December 10, 2009 – 8:00 am
Tuesday night the Guggenheim opened it’s new restaurant, The Wright, for a press preview. Andre Kikoski’s design takes its form from the mother structure, draping the 1,600-sq-foot room in clean layered curves. Enlivening this is a sculpture of mod-colored aluminum bars by Liam Gillick, which gives a vivid, linear counterpoint to the swerving walls. Gillick’s [...]
Apartamento in Tokyo
November 3, 2009 – 6:19 am
The editorial team of Apartamento – an “everyday life interiors magazine” from Spain – is currently in Japan, and just finished hosting a series of lunch sessions called “tasca, everyday life recipes” in Tokyo. The sessions were held in the art bookstore Utrecht, where the magazine just launched their fourth issue. For five days, [...]
Culinary Love: Le Fooding d’Amour Paris-New York
September 25, 2009 – 11:05 am
I’ve long believed that Paris and New York are jealous lovers-mutually obsessed, covetous, but still fiercely stubborn and, ultimately, true only to themselves. Nowhere is this dynamic more apparent than in the kitchen, where American innovation has borrowed from (and then challenged) the French standard that has dominated for so long.
This Friday and Saturday (the [...]
Last Supper Festival at 3rd Ward
September 24, 2009 – 3:05 pm
This Saturday, September 26th, 3rd Ward in Bushwick will be hosting the fifth annual Last Supper Festival. There will be 13 bands, 13 short films, 13 dishes and 7 bands and djs. Go to the festival’s website for the full lineup and more info.
Food Reads
July 2, 2009 – 3:08 am
As insatiable eaters living in a gluttonous society, we enjoy planning our meals through visual aids. That’s precisely why food journalism relies so heavily on photography to elicit hunger pains and mental journeys through supermarket aisles. Recipe titles alone get my mouth watering, but the accompanying photos really drive it all home.
While the marriage of [...]
42×42
June 18, 2009 – 8:39 am
42 Below, a brand of vodka from New Zealand, has begun a new campaign entitled OneDreamRush, in which it has asked 42 directors to produce 42-second shorts about dreams. While the idea itself seems a bit stilted, it’s the list of directors that should really excite: David Lynch, Harmony Korine, Larry Clark, Kenneth Anger and [...]
Daniel Carasso, Yogurt Pioneer, Dies at 103
May 22, 2009 – 1:37 pm
I had never heard of David Carasso, but I was fascinated, reading his obituary today. He was the founder of the Danone group, and basically responsible for taking yogurt from being an obscure, Mediterranean food into the ubiquitous food it is today. He also just had one of those epic, incredible lives. His obituary is [...]
Recipe: Spring Salsa
May 20, 2009 – 8:49 am
We’ve asked photographer and self-described “home cook geek” Daemian Smith to supply us with the recipes behind some of his favorite culinary creations. The following are two of his recommendations for Spring: basic Salsa Roja and Salsa de Tomatillos, made with the eponymous green tomato-like fruit. Says Daemian: “Homemade salsa is one of the easiest [...]
