4 grist for the mill

6 NOTABLE EDIBLES

11 financial times

The Recession Busters

How industry experts are weathering the economic downturn.

15 In the Kitchen With

Robert Krulwich

Correspondent for NPR’s science desk and co-host of WNYC’s Radio Lab.

20 I ndigenous Industry

Ma tzo Mitzvah

Baking like it’s 1925.

24 T he Art Section

McSorley’s Bar

John Sloan’s painting captured—and catapulted—the alehouse institution.

26 T he Grid

You Want Fries with That?

Energy security, meet buffalo wings.

31 C hefspeak

Net Loss

Shad swim against the tide of time.

38 Back of the House

The Cleaver Company

Changing the world, one hors d’oeuvre at a time.

44 L iquid Assets

Through the drinking-glass,

and what Del found there

From seediness to scenesters, one bartender’s career bears witness to

Gotham’s evolving liquor landscape.

50 I nside the Industry

Not So Cut and Dried

Chefs seek a cure to the Health Department’s charcuterie crackdown.

55 O ven’s Eye View

Boulud’s Boulanger

In a city of outsourced baking, one man still fills the breadbasket.

60 BEHIN D THE BOTTL E

No Shame in Being Sw eet

Anthony Road 2006 Martini Reinhardt Selection Vignoles Berry

Selection, $45.

72 Aftertaste

cover

Shad fisherman along the Hudson River near the George Washington

Bridge, mid-century. (See p. 31)

Photograph by Luis Marden/National Geographic Stock Images,

nationalgeographicstock.com