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.
