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Margaret Thatcher's Forgotten Ice Cream Legacy

Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister, died today following a stroke. While news outlets examine her political legacy, The Atlantic reminds us of Thatcher's early work in the culinary field.

Curtis Stone Talks Around the World in 80 Plates, Filming All Over the World Part 1

He has a new Bravo show and a recently born son, so it's a miracle that we got Curtis Stone on the line. Despite a whirlwind media day, the Top Chef Masters host gave us the scoop on Around the World in 80 Plates, traveling the world, and some destinations he'd like to re-visit. You have a new show ... More >>

Best of 2011: Runners-Up for Ricotta and Sausage

​Eating our way through the city to determine the best of the best is no easy task. The hard thing about naming something the "best" is that we had to leave behind many very, very good dishes. So to honor those wayward souls, here are some great plates worthy of mention. Today: ricotta and s ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Foodie Storytelling, West Village Tasting

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the hottest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Moth Eaten: Adventures in Food The Great Hall at Cooper Union at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 13 The Moth's monthly StorySLAM goes foodie this time around with an evening of gastro- ... More >>

Posts of the Week

Hey ho, it's Friday afternoon. And therefore time to look back at the week that was. Maxwell Britten of Maison Premiere talks absinthe, Tales of the Cocktail, and proclaims his love for Brooklyn. Battle o' the raw blueberry smoothies: the Juice Press v. Organic Avenue. Our 10 best places to eat a ... More >>

Lyon Chef Chris Leahy on Bastille Day Food and His Dislike of Guy Fieri: Interview Part 2

Photo courtesy Chris LeahyChris Leahy = Macaron Man ​Yesterday we spoke with Lyon chef Chris Leahy about what makes Lyonnaise cuisine distinctive and what it was like working for Gordon Ramsay. Today, in honor of Bastille Day, Chris explains why the French macaron, is, in fact, superior to th ... More >>

Lyon chef Chris Leahy Dishes on Bouchons and Lyonnaise Cuisine

Photo courtesy Chris LeahyChris Leahy​With Bastille Day just around the corner, it's as good a time as any to make a trip to Lyon. Can't afford the ticket to France? Good thing there's a Lyon, right here in the West Village. We called up chef Chris Leahy to learn more about Lyonnaise cuisin ... More >>

Alex Stupak to Do Even More Mexican; April Bloomfield Goes to France

​Alex Stupak has confirmed that he will open a second location of Empellon, in the space currently occupied by Counter. [Eater] April Bloomfield on her first-ever trip to Paris and Lyon: "I wasn't expecting it to be so peasant-like, so that was a nice surprise, and Paris is not as anal as I ... More >>

Where to Take Dad for Father's Day? Ask the Chefs!

PhotobucketChefs love their dads, too​Unlike Mother's Day, which is basically synonymous with "brunch," Father's Day isn't really a foodie holiday. But Dad still probably wants to get wined and dined by his brood, no? But where to take him for his special day? Rather than dole out our own s ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Dean Street; Lauren Shockey at Bi Lokma

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema has a gastropub revelation at Dean Street in Prospect Heights, where chef Mike Franzetti "illustrates state-of-the-art principles in gastropub menu construction." Lauren Shockey heads to Bi Lokma for Turkish "chow just like babaanne--er, granny--used to make." ... More >>

Q&A: French DJ Douster On Robyn, His Dislike Of Moombahton, And Why Music Makes Him See Colors

​Hugo Douster is all over the place, in terms of both the French DJ's schedule (which in the last week has taken him through Norway, Switzerland, France, and tonight Brooklyn, where he'll kick off his North American tour) and his sound. The traveling helps, as the producer's influences vary fr ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Andre's Café; Lauren Shockey at Mary Queen of Scots

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema discovers authentic Hungarian comfort food on the Upper East Side; Lauren Shockey is bored by oodles of tartan and whiskey at Mary Queen of Scots. San Sifton is charmed by Hunan Kitchen of Grand Sichuan: "Those who recall when Chinese food first began to matt ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Lievito; Lauren Shockey at Junoon

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema discovers a new and delicious breed of pizza bones at Lievito; Lauren Shockey likes the food, but not the boring beige room, at Junoon.​ Sam Sifton finds hits and misses at Lyon: "Some of the food is excellent. ... Best of all are the restaurant's offer ... 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 >>

Robert Sietsema at Lotus of Siam; Lauren Shockey at Karloff

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema is happy to discover that Lotus of Siam delivers "a level of pungency rarely seen in Siamese restaurants on this coast," but advises not to "stop trekking to Queens just yet." Lauren Shockey settles into Karloff, where the food "isn't fancy but has that cooked ... More >>

Make Lyon's Choux de Bruxelles (Brussels Sprouts Hash) Like Chef Chris Leahy

proofofthepuddingBacon in your brussels sprouts.​As the big T-Day approaches, turkey and stuffing recipes abound. But let's not forget the humble sides that make the meal great. If you're one for topping yams with marshmallows, you might also not be too averse to adding bacon to your brussels ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Weather Up Tribeca, Goodbye to the Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. The Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge, which has been called the "Scariest Bar in Brooklyn," has closed, and the space appears to have been taken over. [Brownstoner] Moe's bar, a Fort Greene mainstay, ... More >>

Beaujolais Producer Marcel Lapierre Has Died; Who Are the Biggest Boozers on TV?

​Marcel Lapierre, the Beaujolais winemaker who preferred to focus on the terroir of the region rather than push ubiquitous Beaujolais Nouveau, has died at age 60 in Lyon, France. [NY Times] Wine cellars, once hidden underground, are now increasingly important designer-driven showcase pieces ... More >>

The Cream Puff of Food Docs, Kings of Pastry

Body of Famed French Chef Jean-Francois Poinard Found in a Freezer

Jean-Stephane Poinard/MSNBCJean-Francois Poinard​If you thought Todd English's love life was fraught, then consider the sad tale of Jean-Francois Poinard. The body of Poinard, who was considered of France's most renowned chefs in the 1970s and 80s, was discovered in a freezer in his apartment ... More >>

Having Escaped Top Chef With His Dignity Intact, Kevin Gillespie Bows Out of the Bocuse d'Or

Chef Kev​Remember that Very Special Episode of Top Chef when Kevin Gillespie won the opportunity to compete for Team USA in the next Bocuse d'Or? Well, like so much else on Top Chef, his involvement with the competition proved illusory.

2011 Bocuse d'Or Finalists Announced This Afternoon

​The organizers of the Bocuse d'Or, otherwise known throughout the dining world as the culinary Olympics, announced the 12 semi-finalists for the 2011 U.S. team earlier this afternoon at Daniel. Each semi-finalist, avec sous chef, will compete against one another in February at the Culinary In ... More >>

Battlefields+Overmars

'Positif Celebrates American Cinema'

The French film mag picks some heavies

Murray's Cheese Represents

The French Laundry's Timothy Hollingsworth isn't the only one representing Team USA in culinary competition. While Hollingsworth is participating in the Bocuse d'Or in Lyon, France today and tomorrow, cheese mongers from our very own Murrary's Cheese (254 Bleecker Street) participated in one of the ... More >>

Winter (Culinary) Olympics

America's Hopes Rest on This Guy: Not Mickey, Timonthy HollingsworthWith the Bocuse d'Or, the Olympics of the culinary world, starting tomorrow both Time and the Los Angeles Times look at the chances for Team USA this year. America's hopes rest on Timothy Hollingsworth, a 29-year old sous chef at Th ... More >>

Edible News Roundup

The Vaunted Charcuterie at Bar Boulud Delivers

Hedonism by the pound

David Pasternack's last meal

. . . will be made with crab goo

CNN Got It Wrong

The Paris riots weren't that bad—and the French government handled it well

States of Grace

Taste test: Two more master classes in sound and image from a giant of cinema

Pearl Jam

Confusion comes to bright things (like money, sex, piracy) in Neal Stephenson's Vol. 2

A piano-playing lion from Lyon, France, is set wild this season

Our Way to Fall

Are You There, God? It's Me, TV Critic

Journal Entries

NY Mirror

People in Black

Lyon Opera Ballet and Wally Cardona Quartet at Jacob’s Pillow

NY Mirror

Border Crossings

Ljubljana, Lyon, and Neo-Exoticism in the New Europe

History Lessens

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