Edible Manhattan

The Magazine: September-October 2008

Notable Edibles:
Real Wasabi

At 15 East, the freshly grated wasabi puts all others to shame.


September-October 2008

Chefspeak
How a young pastry cook inspired Blue Hill’s cheese plate, and a worldview
By Dan Barber

In the Kitchen With Isaac Mizrahi
Fridge Fashionista
Interviewed by Gabrielle Langholtz

Indigenous Industry
Pedestrian Pastry Goes Gastro – Mark Isreal’s Doughnut Plant…

Serious Eats:
Breakfast Sandwich of Champions

La Nacional–home of a fantastic Manhattan breakfast sandwich–doesn’t serve breakfast.

Windowsill Agriculture:
Sweet Honey in the Block

Despite Bans, City Rooftops Become Hives of Activity

Edible Institution:
More than a Bookstore

A Day in the Life of Kitchen Arts & Letters

The Grid:
Tap Dance

If you are what you drink, Gotham is Upstate Rainwater—and, Increasingly, Plastic Bottles

Worth the Trip:
The Sticky Bun Heavyweights: Balthazar vs. Bouchon

A Vanilla Thrilla, with Butter, Brown Sugar, Cinnamon and Pecans

Indigenous Industry:
Pedestrian Pastry Goes Gastro

Mark Isreal’s Doughnut Plant Has a Posse

In the Kitchen With:
Isaac Mizrahi

Fridge Fashionista

Aftertaste:
Remembrance of Pastries Past

Sweet dreams, literally.

Stomping Grounds:
Wölff in Sheep’s Clothing

How a sweet, singing German helped turn Long Island wine from joke to jewel.

Chefspeak:
Blue Hill

How a young pastry cook inspired Blue Hill’s cheese plate, and a worldview.

Liquid Assets:
Decline and Fall of the Manhattan

Plotting our namesake cocktail’s legacy.

Eating In:
Under the Gotham Sun

Sara Jenkins channels the Mediterranean in Manhattan.

Eating the City:
Foraging a Fetid Delicacy

For Inside Park’s chef Weingarten, fall is ginkgo season.

Back of the House:
Big Personality

Little Giant was, in a former life, a shoe store, and it bears some resemblance to a shoebox.

Farmer in the City:
Salad for Breakfast

A sheep sheperd meets ‘the vegans’;

Edible Event:
New York Gets Pickled

The Lower East Side’s fermentation festival.

Notable Edibles:
It Ain’t Your Mother’s Circle Line

Call it the Locavore Love Boat for Lushes.

Notable Edibles:
Tomato Tome

This Manhattan socialite takes good care of her heir(loom)s.=

Notable Edibles:
Miracle on 34th Street

Tucked behind Macy’s Herald Square, Arlene Feltman Sailhac has run the De Gustibus cooking school since 1980.

Notable Edibles:
Green Party

A roving restaurant dishes up delicious meals made locally.