I crave all things food and devour foodie news. Staying on top of restaurant openings, cookbook releases, chef sagas, reviews, awards, menu trends and New York’s culinary calendar is something of a religion to me. I draw most of my epicurean knowledge from friends in the biz, bloggers I trust, local newspapers and countrywide magazines, […]

July 4th has always served as my unofficial start to summer, and this year, it truly did take ‘til then for the weather to finally heat up, the farmers’ markets to finally bloom and my summer recipes to finally feel at home ‘round my table. Just back from a much needed retreat in the Buff […]

For those itching to read an honest, raw, food-forward memoir, look no further than Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef. Yes, that same Gabby Hamilton of the taste bud-tantalizing Prune restaurant, recently published her life story into nearly three hundred pages–and naturally, it speaks volumes on the subject […]