About Lisa McLaughlin

Lisa McLaughlin writes about food and wine from Kips Bay, where she apparently drinks like an East Villager. Her work also appears in Time magazine.

The Metamorphosis

Comment | August 31, 2011 | By Lisa McLaughlin | Photographs by Michael Harlan Turkell

After decades in the diner underworld, Greek chefs cook foods fit for the gods.

A New Season of Bobo’s Plate-to-Gate Meals

Comment | May 10, 2011 | By Lisa McLaughlin | Photographs by Andrew Scrivani

Forget Food miles. Bobo offers meals eaten inches from where the ingredients grew.

Southampton Publick House

Comment | March 30, 2011 | By Lisa McLaughlin | Photographs by Lindsay Morris

“I have respect for Coors Light” is not the sort of statement you would expect from one of the most respected craft brewers in the country. But Phil Markowski, the soft-spoken man behind the award-winning beers at Southampton Publick House…

Sweet on Bitters

Comment | January 10, 2011 | By Lisa McLaughlin | Photographs by Rebecca Mcalpin

Mixologists make their own.
For Louis Smeby, it all started because he didn’t want junk in his drinks.
“It seems like a small thing, and it is,” he allows of the aromatic, highly alcoholic liquids called bitters, typically added by…