Gabrielle Hamilton

Cherry Bombe Magazine Celebrates Women in the Culinary World

Stop what you're doing and check out Cherry Bombe Magazine, the visually stunning food magazine created by Seersucker's Kerry Diamond and graphic designer Claudia Wu. The friends (and former Harper's Bazaar colleagues) launched the imprint in September of last year and have now turned to Kickstarter ... More >>

Resolution Diet Be Damned: The "Butter Burger" at Prune

We're almost two weeks into January, and for those of you still dieting, we offer our congratulations--reluctantly. It can't be easy to live in a food city such as New York and spend your days and nights chugging down BluePrint Cleanse cashew drinks and eating raw kale chips. So bravo, we guess. Now ... More >>

From Newsweek: Are These Really the Best Places to Eat in New York?

Ah, the controversy that comes with naming the "best" places. Newsweek "gathered 53 luminary chefs" and compiled a list of the 101 best places to eat around the world. Here are the New York nominations: Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare Specialty: Fried Blowfish Tails "It's the Western version of omak ... More >>

Winners of the James Beard Foundation's Book, Broadcast and Journalism Awards

The winners of the James Beard Foundation's media awards were announced last night (the glitzy chef awards will be presented tonight and you can follow along here, if you like). Congratulations to all of the winners!

Blogroll Gazette: Graphic Interviews, Food Writing Disputes

This week in food blogs: Food Republic posts an interview with Dale Talde, David Massoni and John Bush about their Brooklyn restaurant ventures in graphic-novel form. Food and Think explores the work of Charles Spence, a researcher investigating how sound affects flavor. Serious Eats shows y ... More >>

SUGAR & SPICE

Go camping with Cheryl Strayed

Under the Toque: Batali Settles Suit, New Prune Cookbook in the Works

Chef shuffles and kerfuffles this week: Mario Batali and Joseph Bastianich have agreed to pay $5.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of their restaurants' employees who claimed that the owners deducted the equivalent of 4 to 5 percent of the total wine sales from the tip pool and pockete ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: December 21-27, 2011

Aquavit: Let's Cocktail Like the Scandinavians

Flickr/KimtaroLemon aquavit in the making​ The Danish food trend has been brewing for some time (see: Pellegrino's Best Restaurant Noma, the forthcoming Tribeca sandwich shop Aaman's), so it's only natural that aquavit is popping up on cocktail menus around the city, and on a micro-level...in ... More >>

TMI On Prune Chef's Affair; What the Occupy Wall Street Protesters Are Eating

​Government officials will not be asking food companies to remove cartoon characters from their ads and packages. [ABC News] A creepily detailed item on Gabrielle Hamilton exposes the Prune chef's affair with her sister's husband. [NY Post] Chefs like Heston Blumenthal and Grant Achatz are t ... More >>

New York City's 17 Greatest Chefs

The re-Africanized fried chicken at Marcus Samuelsson's Red Rooster This highly idiosyncratic list is based entirely on my own dining predilections, and only includes chefs whose work I'm reasonably familiar with. Certain figures have been excluded from consideration -- Thomas Keller, for example ... More >>

At This Point, Gabrielle Hamilton Is "Barely Interested" in Food

Gabrielle Hamilton does the interview circuit.​The vibrant descriptions of roasting lamb, Greek seafood, and Italian produce that crowd the pages of Blood, Bones and Butter might lead you to think otherwise, but Gabrielle Hamilton is kind of over food.

SOS Chefs Has Closed, and We Are Sad

​File under "Things That Make Us Sad": S.O.S. Chefs, the 15-year-old specialty shop that supplied chefs from Amanda Cohen to David Chang to Gabrielle Hamilton with hard-to-find ingredients, has closed.

8 Zingers from Gabrielle Hamilton's De Gustibus Cooking Class Last Week

Melissa HamiltonGabrielle Hamilton, comedienne extraordinaire.​Gabrielle Hamilton has bared all in her bestselling memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter. And she bared a little more at her De Gustibus class last week. Ever entertaining, here were some of the best lines she delivered during her cooking ... More >>

Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune Reveals Her Kitchen Personality: Interview Part 2

Melissa HamiltonGabrielle Hamilton: Master Chef, Mother Hen​Yesterday we spoke with Prune chef Gabrielle Hamilton about her big win at the James Beard Awards on Monday night, taking home the title of Best Chef: New York City. Today she reveals what traits a chef must have to run a successful ... More >>

Posts of the Week

Hey ho, it's Friday afternoon, and thus time to look back at the week that was: Is this the future of the East Village? Our 10 Best NYC Restaurants for Pre-Theater Prix Fixe. Girl Next Door's Tart & Tipsy brownie is beautiful & boozy.

Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune Reveals What's Harder -- Writing a Book or Running a Restaurant

Melissa HamiltonGabrielle Hamilton celebrates with rosé champagne (and maybe tomatoes).​ Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune restaurant is riding high on the hog this year, having written a wildly successful memoir Blood, Bones & Butter, released in March, and being named Best Chef: New York Ci ... More >>

Lady Chefs Rock the James Beard Awards!

​So the James Beard Foundation Awards were last night and New York City cleaned up pretty well, with Best New Restaurant going to ABC Kitchen, Outstanding Pastry Chef awarded to Eleven Madison Park's Angela Pinkerton, Outstanding Restaurant Award also nabbed by Eleven Madison Park, and Outstan ... More >>

TALK SOUP

Mark Bazer chats with Das Racist

Sara Jenkins May Open More Porchettas, Wants to Write a Memoir

Carla Roley​Here's some potentially, albeit highly speculative, good news for Porchetta-philes: Sara Jenkins may give the city more roast pork.

What Happens When Women Cook in John Fraser's Kitchen

​Last week, Heather Carlucci-Rodriguez told us that she'd be taking part in a weekly female chefs series beginning next month at What Happens When. Now the restaurant, which just began its third movement yesterday, has coughed up some more details about the series, which will every Monday feat ... More >>

The 2011 James Beard Award Finalists Are...

​Earlier this afternoon in Portland, OR, the James Beard Foundation announced the finalists for the 2011 James Beard Awards. So without further ado, the nominees, after the jump:

Gabrielle Hamilton Sets the Record Straight About the Greatest Food Memoir of All Time

​"It's not an obsessive food story. I don't care about food that much." - Gabrielle Hamilton, tongue halfway in cheek, in conversation with Peter Meehan at Powerhouse Arena last night about her new and endlessly lauded memoir, Blood, Bones, and Butter is and isn't. Have a tip or restaurant-re ... More >>

Coconut Oil Makes a Comeback; New Chile is World's Hottest

​Gabrielle Hamilton on Blood, Bones & Butter: ""I wrote a book in a way that I would like more people to write books. I'm not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls." [NY Times] Once maligned for its cholesterol and ... More >>

Orlando Is Fast-Food Heaven; Oscar-Inspired Cocktails

​Orlando has more McDonald's, Burger Kings, KFCs, and other fast-food restaurants per 100,000 residents than any other city in the country. [LA Times] Homes for the Homeless has launched the new Milk From the Heart initiative that will distribute free fresh milk to needy families. [PR Newswir ... More >>

The Recipe of Coke, Revealed?; Chef's Tables Are All the Rage

​An Atlanta radio show host recently revealed what he claimed was the original formula for Coca-Cola, a recipe that includes coriander oil and citric acid. [NY Times] In Nigella Lawson's kitchen, mugs live in a drawer so as not to waste head space in cupboards, and pegs are custom built for s ... More >>

Yes, Foodies Are Ridiculous. But Then So Is B.R. Myers!

B.R. Myers​In the March issue of The Atlantic, vegan, curmudgeon, North Korea expert, and animal-rights activist B.R. Myers goes after foodies in an article entitled "The Moral Crusade Against Foodies." I've got to admit, we've given him a very broad target. He begins by extracting damning q ... More >>

An Excerpt From Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter Is in This Week's New Yorker

​Blood, Bones, and Butter, the memoir from Prune chef-owner Gabrielle Hamilton, doesn't come out until March. Having read an advance copy, we can attest to its considerable quality - it's worth reading alone for the chapter in which Hamilton is asked to speak on a Culinary Institute of America ... More >>

Best of NYC: Our Critics List Their 10 Favorite Dishes

Robert Sietsema, Sarah DeGregorio, and Rebecca Marx recap their respective years in food

Vinegar Hill's Brian Leth Talks New Brooklyn Food, Jeffrey Steingarten, Cooking Eggs

Brian Leth​Brian Leth has helmed the kitchen at Brooklyn's Vinegar Hill House since April of 2009, when the restaurant had been open for about six months. After getting his start cooking professionally in New Mexico, he moved back to New York, where he worked under Gabrielle Hamilton at Prun ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain on Gabrielle Hamilton's Memoir: 'So, So, So Great'

Christopher HirsheimerGabrielle Hamilton​Almost a year still stands between us and the release of Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter, but Anthony Bourdain tells Grub Street that he is one of the fortunate souls who has already read the Prune chef's memoir: "I gotta tell you, I read ... More >>

Chef Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern on his Japanese Influences, Chefs in Social Media, and Ramps

Ellen Silverman Photography​Chef Michael Anthony has been the executive chef at Gramercy Tavern for nearly four years. He got his start in the kitchen soon after college, when, while studying in Japan, he fell for Japanese cooking. Anthony began working at Bistro Shima in Tokyo, and then moved ... More >>

The James Beard Awards List of Final Nominees Is Fully Operational

It's been a busy morning at the James Beard Foundation: right on the heels of its list of finalists for its Media and Journalism Awards comes its roster of final nominees for its Restaurant and Chef Awards, announced on the Beard Foundation's Twitter page. Beard on Beard​New York has done we ... More >>

The James Beard Awards Semi-Finalists Have Been Announced

Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?​The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>

Under the Toque--Women Chefs Know What Not to Wear; Marcus Samuelsson Talks About His New Book

In a Q&A with Restaurant Girl, Chef Marcus Samuelsson talks about, among other things, his upcoming book, The New American Table, which takes "a look at the diversity of American food and how immigrants keep their heritage close while embracing American culture." Expect amazing photography and great ... More >>

Under the Toque--Gabrielle Hamilton Discusses Her James Beard Nod; Paul Liebrandt Hints at a New Place

Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune on her James Beard nomination: "I can't help but think they needed to pick a girl, and of the girls, I'm pretty good. I could go down that path for hours, but I'm not going to. I'll just say that I'm honored." [The Feed] Sandra Lee spoke at the Salvation Army Book Lunche ... More >>

James Beard Semifinalists Announced

The semifinalists for the illustrious James Beard awards have been announced, with a quite a few hometown favorites in the lot, including Dan Barber and Tom Colicchio in the the Outstanding Chef category; Babba and Jean George for Outstanding Restaurant;  Corton, Momofuku Ko, and Scarpetta for ... More >>

Valentine's Day is Only for Lovers at Prune

Chefs: They're Just Like Us!

Exquisite Equinox

Fall back to the hardiest harvest

Yolking Around

At dinnertime, eggs is the new meat