The Nanny Diaries
3 comments so far | March 5, 2012 | By Nancy Matsumoto | Photographs by Sari Goodfriend
New Yorkers lucked into local goat cheese when Coach’s founders got a brand new bag.
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With Funds Earmarked for Earthquake Relief, Japan Week Begins by Taking Over Grand Central
Comment | March 2, 2012 | By Nancy Matsumoto | Photographs by hannaleecommunications.com
Along with mouth-watering food displays, festive red lanterns made in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture and cherry blossoms suspended in ice decorated Grand Central Station’s Vanderbilt Hall last night, as part of the gala to kick off Japan Week.
For Saké’s Sake
Comment | December 1, 2011 | By Nancy Matsumoto | Photographs by Elizabeth Leitzell
Message in a Bottle. Rick Smith and Hiroko Furukawa stock 150 bottles at their Ninth Street store—the only sake specialty shop on the East Coast.
Big Flavors in Little China
Comment | By Nancy Matsumoto | Photographs by Jena Cumbo
Just in time for Chinese New Year, Buddakan chef Yang Huang takes us on a downtown tour though the flavors of his homeland.
Osechi
1 comment | October 16, 2011 | By Nancy Matsumoto | Photographs by Max Flatow
Japanese-Americans welcome the New Year with a special feast that can take weeks to prepare.
Plankton is Awesome: From Spain, A Fish Farming Technique Beloved by Dan Barber
Comment | October 10, 2011 | By Nancy Matsumoto
Last week I saw the future of sustainable seafood. It involves plankton, lots of it. The occasion was a lunch at Blue Hill in Greenwich Village celebrating a fish farm in Southern Spain called Veta La Palma, where shrimp, sea…
For All The Tea In India
Comment | August 31, 2011 | By Nancy Matsumoto | Photographs by EMERIC HARNEY
New York’s tea dynasty takes a sourcing trip to Asia— and brings the cream of the crop to their SoHo salon.
Vichyssoise
Comment | July 21, 2011 | By Nancy Matsumoto
When cold soup got hot.