James Beard

Rosemary's Has a Roof Party

A new West Villager channels an old West Villager

Robert Sietsema Addresses The Ruth Bourdain Twitter Account Question

There's been a lot of talk today about the identity of Ruth Bourdain, the James Beard humor-award-winning Twitter account that deftly mixes up Ruth Reichl platitudes with Anthony Bourdain's attitude, being our very own Robert Sietsema. But is this true? We asked Robert to elaborate.

Joey Phadungsil 'In' at Sura Thai Urban Kitchen; Hok Chin 'Out' at Duo

​Joey Phadungsil has taken over the kitchen at Sura Thai Urban Kitchen, on the Upper West Side. She previously worked at Rhong-Tiam. [NY Times] James Beard finalist Jim Burke, from Philadelphia, will be the executive chef at Stephen Starr's forthcoming restaurant in the New York Historical So ... More >>

Posts of the Week

'Tis Friday. So here's a look back at Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday, and Monday. The secret to transporting an entire steer to Meatopia? Forklifts. In honor of Pride Week, we reminisce about Florent with its longtime hostess, Darinka Chase. Our 10 Best Places to Eat During Gay Pride Weekend.

James Beard's 10 Greatest Quotes

NBC via Gourmet​James Beard didn't live in Greenwich Village for nothing. Born in Portland, Oregon in 1903, his earliest culinary memories included having his mother and the family's Chinese cook make food for him when he came down with malaria at the age of three. After a stint of living in P ... 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 >>

Let Luke Holden of Luke's Lobster Teach You the Ropes About Starting Your Own Food Biz

No wonder he's smiling.​Luke Holden has been busy these days expanding his mini lobster roll empire and even going mobile. But that doesn't mean he won't take time out of his schedule to sit down with you and talk shop.

Duckathlon VI Returned to New York, Team Annisa Conquered

Lauren ShockeyDuck, duck, goose, go!​This past weekend Chelsea Market played host to specialty food company D'Artagnan, which sponsored the sixth annual Duckathlon, a culinary competition and gastronomic obstacle course. Teams of chefs from restaurants ranging from Le Bernardin to Annisa fough ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Argentinean Wine Dinner; Cinco de Mayo

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! All-Clad Metalcrafters at the JBF LTD Chelsea Market May 3-7 April Bloomfield of The Spotted Pig, The Breslin, and John Dory Oyster Bar; Gavin Kaysen of Café Boul ... More >>

Susan Ungaro Reveals the Behind-the-Scenes of the James Beard Foundation Awards and Responds to Anthony Bourdain's Criticisms

Chefs gonna be winning!​April showers bring May flowers, but also the James Beard Foundation Awards! The second week in May the awards will celebrate the country's best chefs (and journalists and writers), and are a big ole party of who's who in the industry. Wanting to take a peek behind th ... More >>

The Chelsea Market Gets Pop-Ups, Pops

​There's much ado at the Chelsea Market this week, thanks in large part to the James Beard Foundation. The Beardies yesterday launched JBF LTD, a 27-day pop-up restaurant and food pavilion that will, its website brags, take "the idea of the pop-up restaurant further than it's ever been taken b ... More >>

San Franciscan Visits New York, Isn't Impressed

​Although last year's Le Fooding proved that in a San Francisco-New York smack down, almost everyone lost, at least one man has done his bit to incite a new skirmish in the non-existent battle.

Top Five Young, Hometown-Obsessed New York City Rappers

Roc Marciano, leading the charge​Last year a small, underground pocket of NYC-based hip-hop found its voice again. With Roc Marciano's unimpeachable Marcberg album as the catalyst, a crew of loosely associated artists shook off that tired cliché about our city's commercial-outsider status and ... More >>

Our 10 Best NYC Restaurants of the Last Two Centuries

Delmonico's as it looks today. The columns on either side of the door are said to come from Pompeii.​The modern restaurant as we know it was invented in 1831 south of Wall Street at Delmonico's, based on Swiss and French models. The previous sort of establishment was usually a hotel dining roo ... More >>

Gael Greene Asks Us to Remember Craig Claiborne

​When the Barneys' holiday windows went up last November, Gael Greene took exception to the absence of Craig Claiborne from the display, which featured food innovators and "personalities" past and present. Today, she uses her Fork Play newsletter to elaborate upon her displeasure, and to make ... More >>

Resto Apocalypse Reversed on Hudson Street

​ 581 Hudson Street -- Before: Most recently occupied by Italian restaurant Valdino West, and 30 years before that by Trattoria D'Alfredo, a favoite of James Beard's; After: Now occupied by Mediterranean restaurant Meme (not to be confused with the Philadelphia restaurant of the same name), wh ... More >>

The Brombergs, Part II: First Vegas, Then The World

Eric and Bruce Bromberg​Yesterday, we talked to Eric and Bruce Bromberg of the Blue Ribbon restaurants about their new venture at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas hotel. Today, they reveal further expansion plans. A lot of people talk about the death of fine dining in this city. Is there something ... More >>

New Year's Eve: Eats

Old stand-bys and some new kids on the block

The Barneys Food (Network)-Themed Holiday Windows: Some Pictures

​Mario Batali's decapitated head is surrounded by a garnish of Crocs. On Tuesday, Barneys unveiled its much-anticipated food-themed holiday windows. Inscribed with the command "Have a Foodie Holiday," the three tableau offer an assemblage of 70 Food Network "personalities," chefs, and assort ... More >>

The Guardian Lists Its 50 Best Cookbooks of All Time

​The Guardian published its list of the 50 best cookbooks of all time this weekend, naming Richard Olney's The French Menu Cookbook as is Number One pick.

Good Food Awards: Enter Your Pickle Today

FlickrWin a trip to this slope-y, geologically suspect metropolis.​ Hoarding your artisanal pickles for yourselves and your friends? Have a killer bit of handcrafted charcuterie you've been waiting to unveil to the world? Well, today's your day: The San Francisco Chronicle announces the first ... More >>

Raines Law Room's Meaghan Dorman Talks Speakeasy Overload, Creating 'New' Classic Cocktails, and Being a Lady United for the Protection of Endangered Cocktails

Meaghan Dorman​Meaghan Dorman is just your average drinks slinger-slash-Penthouse writer. She's also the head bartender at Raines Law Room near Union Square, which has just introduced a brand-new cocktail list, the first major overhaul to the menu since the bar opened a year and a half ago. ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Defends Sandra Lee's Lasagna; Whole Foods Boycotts Oily Organics

​Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo stood by his girlfriend, Sandra Lee's, lasagna recipe after his Italian-American mom recently called it into question. Rather diplomatically, he said, "Lasagna is like politics. Everybody gets an opinion." [NY1] A report reveals that more than 85 percent ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Celebrate Herring & Discuss Restaurant Design

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Herring Festival Aquavit June 14-19 & 21-26 Jewish delis aren't the only one who get excited about herring this time of year. Aquavit's annual Herring Festival ... More >>

The Culinary Historians of New York Show the Big Apple What It's Biting

Eighteenth-century fish, as portrayed by Luis Melendez.​Gourmands looking to bone up on their food history should check out the Culinary Historians of New York, a nonprofit organization founded in 1985 with the aim of furthering people's knowledge about the historical and sociological signific ... More >>

James Beard Media Award Winners Announced

Cookbook of the Year​The James Beard media and cookbook awards were announced last night at a Kelly Choi- and Andrew Zimmern-hosted event at Espace. Cookbook of the Year went to Colman Andrews' The Country Cooking of Ireland, and the other winners were as follows:

Who Is Jerry Thomas and Why Does He Have More Facebook Friends Than You?

Vidiot/FlickrWaxing poetic: Jerry Thomas at The Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans​Settle down, cocktailians. The question isn't, "who is Jerry Thomas?" as in the pioneering American bartender and New York (State) native deemed the father of modern mixology and worshiped by mustach ... More >>

Hugh Acheson Coming to NYC; Benihana Gets a New Exec Chef

​Top Chef alum Spike Mendelsohn has plans to open outposts of his D.C. restaurant Good Stuff in, Arlington, Virginia, and Georgetown, and maybe in "Chicago, L.A., even London and Tokyo." [Bloomberg] Hugh Acheson, the chef-owner of Five & Ten in Athens, Ga. and a James Beard nominee, has just ... 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 >>

Recipe: Make Pork Chops Two Ways By Sonoma Chefs Jeff Mall & Josh Silvers

​Sonoma chefs Josh Silvers and Jeff Mall of Syrah Bistro and Zin Restaurant, respectively, have teamed up on a cookbook for Rodney Strong Vineyards that highlights Sonoma-style cuisine, entitled Down Home: Downtown. Silvers provides the downtown, while Mall contributes the down home recipes. T ... More >>

Our 10 Best: Cookbooks

​Above all, a cookbook should be useful and accurate, but that's not why we love them. A great cookbook isn't just a compendium of recipes; it takes you somewhere--into a cook's kitchen, to the South of France, or the South Pacific, or back in time. Following a 1961 recipe for Chateaubriand do ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Cookbooks

​Tomorrow, we reveal the 10 cookbooks that we think are the best of all time. (Actually, we're limiting it to the 19th through 21st centuries, just so our heads don't explode.) As cookbook fetishists, we're having a hard time with this one, sweating it out over beloved works by everyone from J ... More >>

Judith Jones on Cooking for One

Christopher Hirsheimer​The summary of Judith Jones' life's work so far is enough to make your head spin. She is currently senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf, which she joined in 1957. Before that, she had worked for Doubleday in New York and Paris, where she accomplished littl ... More >>

My Rant: Hello 2010 Michelin Guide to New York City. Now Go Home!

​Get your radial-tire ass in gear and lay rubber out of here, Michelin Man. We've already got plenty of unreliable sources telling us where to eat. Zagat is bad enough, with its fake democracy, and endless reiteration of the same top-shelf places. In Europe you had a modicum of respect: We k ... More >>

Resto Apocalypse on Hudson Street

​ 581 Hudson Street: The former Valdino West was once the home of Trattoria d'Alfredo, the city's first Tuscan-style restaurant, and a hangout of James Beard. If you're accustomed to gauging the health of the restaurant industry as I do by watching the openings and closings on Eater, and noti ... More >>

Our 10 Best: Food-Themed Television Shows

​A few afternoons ago I had the pleasure of hearing Jacques Pepin discourse on his friendship with Julia Child, whom he met in 1960. He recalled their opportunity to work together on a show called Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home, created in 1999 in Boston and featuring both of them in the kitc ... More >>

Our Ten Best: Tomorrow, Food-Themed Television Shows

​Friday morning, Fork in the Road climbs into the "green dead eye of the TV," as novelist Cynthia Buchanan so aptly put it, to ferret out the very best television shows with a food theme. No stone will be left unturned as we consider sitcoms like Maude, ancient cooking shows from the likes of ... More >>

Oh, Those Animals! Jon Shook Looks Forward to Surfing (and Cooking) in Montauk

According to Jon Shook, the motivation for him and Vinny Dotolo, his co-chef at L.A.'s Animal, to do their upcoming pop-up restaurant at Montauk's Sole East was pretty simple. "Both Vinny and me are from Florida, and we grew up surfing, skateboarding, and hanging out on the beach," Shook says. "Even ... 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 >>

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Daniel Boulud Hits His Stride in Palm Beach

When Daniel Boulud opened Café Boulud in Palm Beach in 2003, things got off to a "meh" start, but the restaurant has hit its stride and "is finally worthy of the master's name," according to Gail Shepherd at our sister publication New Times in Broward-Palm Beach.Reviewing the restaurant this week, ... More >>

Cookbook Tester: Floyd Cardoz's Shrimp Gumbo

An unusual gumbo: Toasty, rich and spicyFloyd Cardoz, the exec chef at Tabla, was recently named a James Beard semi-finalist in the Best Chef: New York City category. I love Tabla, but eating from Cardoz's cookbook, One Spice Two Spice, a lot easier on the wallet--although you've got to do the work ... More >>

James Beard: The Quintessential American Epicure

Photo by Dan Wynn, ©Elisabeth Wynn and courtesy of the James Beard Foundation.A totally non-Valentine themed event, and a totally affordable one, is to be had tomorrow night at the New School. As part of their "Culinary Luminaries" series, the school's Food Studies program considers the life and wo ... More >>

Paneling

James, a New Brooklyn Neighborhood Bistro

The Prospect Heights joint transcends the genre

Faking It

Vodka flavored with celery and tea: a semi-official review

Everyone's a Critic

Foodies Add Spice to ASME Awards

Bosnian Burgers