January 2010
79 posts
Harlan Buys Diamond Oaks Winery (Wine Spectator) →
Cult Cabernet producer still developing plans for property adjoining his winery
Restaurants Reboot at Reality-Show Speed →
This is the era of high-velocity makeovers, where noteworthy establishments are born, or reborn, in the time it takes to make crostini.
Food Stuff: A Lift to Any Can →
This whale can opener is not only winsome, but is also a clever and effective tool.
Off the Menu →
Opening This Week.
When Chocolate and Chakras Collide →
Food culture is infiltrating yoga, and not everyone is happy about it.
Letters: Chicken Tonight →
To the Editor:.
The New Old Way to Tote Your Beer →
Growlers — 64-ounce glass vessels that look like a moonshine jug — have become the beer accessory of the moment.
Restaurant Review: Le Caprice →
The Manhattan outpost of the elegant London institution has a menu straight off the plane: nursery food with colonial accents.
Letters: Fine Points →
To the Editor:.
Food Stuff: Not the Usual (but Original) Drink →
One sip and you might think this dark, potent, aromatic drink was an Italian digestive. But Root is an American original.
In Paris, Two Family Affaires →
Amidst a worldwide economic crisis, La Tour d’Argent and Taillevent, both fixtures on the city’s high-end dining scene, have been passed on to third-generation heirs.
Feed Me: Unchained: Replicating Restaurant Dishes... →
Putting David Zinczenko’s new book, “Cook This, Not That!” to the test.
$25 and Under: Szechuan Chalet →
It doesn’t bring the fire of New York’s best Sichuan restaurants, but there are pleasures to be had at this neighborhood place on the Upper East Side.
Dining Calendar →
Roll Out the Barrel.
Food Stuff: Small Specialties, Savory and Sweet →
Pichet Ong’s talent flowered with Asian-style desserts at Spice Market. But at Village Tart he oversees more familiar temptations, both savory and sweet.
Letters: The Way We Eat →
To the Editor:.
Two-Year Hiatus for El Bulli in Spain →
Ferran Adrià, who brought the world treats like freeze-dried foie gras, will close his acclaimed restaurant for two years to tinker with new ideas in molecular cuisine.
Play, Then Eat: Shift May Bring Gains at School →
A simple scheduling switch — moving recess before lunch — may improve children’s eating habits and behavior in school.
Basketball Legend Jerry West (Wine Spectator) →
Former NBA player and coach is a collector with two cellars
The Pour: An Absinthe Borne on Vodka’s Back →
The California micro-distillery Germain-Robin owes its survival to the spirit that cocktail aficionados love to hate: vodka.
Well: Play, Then Eat: Shift May Bring Gains at... →
Sending pupils out to play before eating might make a difference in their health and behavior.
Canadian Wine May Soon be More Canadian (Wine... →
Wineries promise to change “Cellared in Canada” labels, but after the Olympics
Bites: Restaraunt Review: The Lake Chalet Seafood... →
At this restaurant, an inconsistent menu takes a back seat to the stunning surroundings.
Fresh Powder Meets Fine Dining at Cortina... →
Chili? Nachos? Not in the Dolomites of northern Italy, which has glamour, snow and, in old mountain huts turned restaurants, excellent food you can ski to.
The Minimalist: Fried Rice, Dressed Simply →
The chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten tops his fried rice with crisp ginger and a fried egg.
Bordeaux Vineyards Threatened by Proposed... →
A new TGV line would slice through 124 acres in Graves
Chicago News Cooperative | Street Corners: Cicero... →
For some who came to Chicago from the South in the first half of the 20th century, a local restaurant serves as a reminder of their country childhoods.
A Wine World Provocateur Switches to Vegetables →
Naomi Brilliant is plowing under Roshambo, her Sonoma winery that attracted droves of San Francisco hipsters, to grow vegetables.
Mariah Carey Gets Bubbly (Wine Spectator) →
Plus, the wine and food industry comes to Haiti’s aid
Food: The Cheat: The Roast With the Most →
A wintry supper does double duty at the breakfast table.
Now at Starbucks: A Rebound →
Quarterly numbers suggested that the company’s strategy of layoffs, fewer store openings and more local emphasis was working.
A Possible Cure for Alcohol Intolerance Mutation... →
Researchers find a molecule that may help those who can’t digest alcohol
Benefits →
The food and wine industry is helping to raise money for victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
Food Stuff: Schatzie’s Meat Market Heads West →
Tony Schatz, above, a fifth-generation New York butcher who had a meat market on the Upper East Side for 30 years, has moved it to the Upper West Side.
Dining Briefs | Recently Opened: MXco →
Corn tacos, authentic to a Mexico of the mind, are the best item on the menu at this large new restaurant on the Upper East Side.
When Fingers Would Fumble, Chefs Turn to Tweezers →
The most recent cross-disciplinary tool in the restaurant kitchen comes from the operating room: medical tweezers.
Restaurant Review: Maialino →
Pig is at the heart of the menu at Danny Meyer’s latest venture, a warm Roman-style trattoria at the Gramercy Park Hotel.
School Adds Weeding to Reading and Writing →
The first New York affiliate of the Edible Schoolyard program, developed by the restaurateur Alice Waters, will be built in Gravesend, Brooklyn, this summer.
Food Stuff: Raising a Glass With the Monks →
“A Taste of Heaven: A Guide to Food and Drink Made by Monks and Nuns” collects some of the centuries-old recipes that are made at many monasteries.
Dining Calendar →
Beer and Steak …
Off the Menu →
Opening This Week.
Russia Seeks to Cleanse Its Palate of U.S. Chicken →
The government has imposed an open-ended ban on imports of American chicken, which was given as food aid in the 1990s and became a symbol of the nation’s humiliation.
A Grab for Keepsakes as the Gavel Falls →
All the major lots were briskly gaveled away during the three-day auction of flotsam from the foundering of the bankrupt Tavern on the Green.
Food Stuff: Bitters From Germany, to Kick Up Your... →
The arrival of Bitter Truth, a relatively new German brand of bitters, couldn’t be better timed.
Dining Briefs | Recently Opened: Xi’an Famous... →
Xi’an Famous Foods in Flushing’s Golden Mall has opened in Manhattan, one of the few non-Cantonese, non-Fujianese places in Chinatown.
De Gustibus: Snack Time Never Ends →
When it comes to American children, snacks seem both mandatory and constant.
The Balkan Burger Unites All Factions →
A charcoal-grilled meat patty called pljeskavica has become common in Queens neighborhoods where Bosnians and Croatians, Serbs and Montenegrins now live side by side.
Cash Crunch at Vinfolio (Wine Spectator) →
New investors restructuring San Francisco firm for wine collectors
Killer Wine App (Wine Spectator) →
How wineries should be telling (or selling) their stories to customers—instead of relying on their labels
Wines of The Times: Exploring Bordeaux’s Other... →
The spotlight is usually on the high-priced top tier of Bordeaux. But what about the other wines produced in the region? The panel tasted 20 bottles of Bordeaux in the $10 to $20 range.