"Cheese is a mysterious force." Lucy's Whey has been providing American artisanal cheeses to the residents of East Hampton since 2007. They've now brought their wares and love for cheese to the Chelsea Market, where Cheesemonger Amy Thompson is at...
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This week, we're chatting with Jill DeGroff, artist and author of Lush Life, Portraits from Behind the Bar—a collection of sketches of the bartenders, musicians, chefs, and others that populate the bars of America. Name: Jill DeGroff Location: New York...
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"From the start, I wanted to approach wine education from the student's perspective." Marnie Old knows a thing or two about wine. When she's not teaching wine classes, she is either writing about it in Philadelphia magazine, producing her web...
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[Photo: Robyn Lee] Name: Cesare Casella Location: Upper West Side Occupation: executive chef and partner of Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto Website: http://www.salumeriarosi.com/ You grew up in Lucca and transformed your family restaurant, earning it a Michelin star. What culinary traditions...
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"These cheesemakers are all craftsmen, but they're also funny, complex, complicated people." Liz Thorpe has dedicated the past seven years of her life learning more about cheese than most of us could ever hope to know in our entire lifetimes....
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"Nothing like pork buns and brown liquor at 1:00am on a Sunday to ready you for the week ahead." This week's Meet & Eat is a little shorter than usual—but only because Lesley Townsend is working away to give us...
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Jeff Glassman wants to capture the laid-back and tranquil essence of Fire Island in a bottle. A beer bottle, specifically. The co-founder and president of Fire Island Beer Company has hit the ground running this summer, spreading their Fire...
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Chef Ryan Skeen has earned a reputation as a master of all things pig. And we mean all things pig. Skeen has brought his offal and porcine-heavy flair to Resto and Irving Mill, and is now behind the stove...
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"Sweet, caramelized onions on a cheeseburger will resonate beautifully with the malty caramel notes of a Vienna lager." Continuing with the Good Beer Month theme, we'd like to introduce you to New York City's first beer sommelier, Samuel Merritt, who...
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The team behind The Good Beer Seal want to make sure you're having the best possible beer experience in New York City—especially during July, which they have baptized "Good Beer Month" (as in, they have an official document from City...
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