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May 23, 2012
Under the Toque: David Chang on Rising Prices, Jamie Oliver in Ireland
David Chang sits down with Bloomberg to talk about the rising prices of food and focuses in on pork and beef. [Bloomberg] Tory Miller of L'Etoile, who won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Midwest, talked to Eater about leaving the haute kitchens of New York for the Midwest. "The celebrity chef ... More >>
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April 26, 2012
Taste of the Nation 2012: Celebrity Chefs Ending Childhood Hunger
It's not often you can eat from New York City's top restaurants and help alleviate poverty in the city -- at the same time. Taste of the Nation NYC takes place on Monday, and the star-studded event will feature gourmet fare by top chefs from restaurants such as Ai Fiori and Gramercy Tavern. Hosted ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
Under the Toque: Bagel and Lox Creations, Art Installations
Mario Batali and artist Jim Dine teamed up to make a super fancy, limited-edition cookbook up for auction on eBay with a minimum bid of $1,200 a copy. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Lunchbox Fund. [Eater] For the annual conference of the International Academy of Culinary Professionals, chefs ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
The New York City Marathon Helps You Eat Italian
Lauren BloombergA little something from Osteria Morini to propel you over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. The New York City Marathon is coming up in just 10 short days. You know what that means? There's going to be a lot of pasta eating in this city. Nothing sets you up better for a big race th ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
With Veloce Gone, There Are Now Only 43 Pizza Places in the East Village
Veloce PizzeriaYesterday, we noted that the East Village is home to 44 restaurants that serve pizza. But now it's 43: after EV Grieve noticed that Veloce had posted a "closed for renovations" sign in its window, Grub Street called the restaurant and learned that it "will be relocating to midt ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Zak Pelaccio 'In' at Food Republic; Joey Boroski 'In' at Ember Room
Zak Pelaccio is the latest chef turned online columnist. Like Sara Jenkins of Porchetta and Porsena, who pens essays for Atlantic Life, the Fatty Crab and 'Cue founder will be writing The Alimentary Canal for the Marcus Samuelsson-backed Food Republic. His co-contributor is colleague Jori Jay ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
One Day, Momofuku Milk Bar May Go to the UWS, and Sara Jenkins May Have a Falafel Shop
What better way to pass a slow summer day than with idle speculation?
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June 10, 2011
The Week in Food Blogs: Pop-Up Dinners, Beachside Bars, Dining Pet Peeves
This week is food blogs ... Eater rounded up 12 can't-miss pop-up dinners and specials around the city this month. Grub Street considered that maybe we should be judging wines by their labels. Atlantic Life had Sara Jenkins waxing poetic about why restaurant food will never measure up to home coo ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
EV Grieve Reflects on the Lessons of CB3 Meetings, Superdive, and the East Village as a "Foodie Tourist Trap"
EV GrieveAlthough EV Grieve is first and foremost a neighborhood blog dedicated to covering "things that you may or may not be interested in about the East Village and other parts of New York City," we turn to it on a daily basis for restaurant and bar news. In addition to chronicling the c ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
Sara Jenkins May Open More Porchettas, Wants to Write a Memoir
Carla RoleyHere's some potentially, albeit highly speculative, good news for Porchetta-philes: Sara Jenkins may give the city more roast pork.
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March 26, 2011
Minutes of the Organ Meat Society at Porsena
First course: An amuse of broiled rabbit hearts with garlic and olive oil On Friday evening the Organ Meat Society met to celebrate the 14th anniversary of the organization.
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February 28, 2011
On Sara Jenkins' Italy Trip, Expect Unfettered Pasta Consumption
orsorama/FlickrLast week, we learned that Sara Jenkins will be leading a trip to Italy later this year. She's since provided us with a few more details.
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February 25, 2011
The Week in Food Blogs: Rush Limbaugh Knows Dick About Food; Taste-Testing Fast-Food Doughnuts & Burritos
This week in food blogs... Eater offered its guide to the best of the hip new breed of Brooklyn family restaurants. Grub Street remembered the 12 most asinine things Rush Limbaugh has said about food. Diner's Journal got excited about the menu at Sam Talbot's forthcoming Imperial No. Nine at the ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Porchetta's Cooking Greens
Rebecca MarxSometimes, when overweening ambition and one too many senseless product endorsements become too much to bear, it's useful to be reminded of the elemental, ego-free pleasures that an expertly cooked vegetable can entail.
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February 23, 2011
Go to Italy With Sara Jenkins
At Porchetta and Porsena, Sara Jenkins has contented herself with figuratively transporting her customers to Italy. But later this year, she'll take a more literal approach.
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February 17, 2011
James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Semifinalists Announced
opentable.comThe product of blood, sweat, and tearsIt's almost time for the Oscars. That is, the Oscars of the food world: the James Beard Foundation Awards. Today marked the announcement of the restaurant and chef semifinalists, who were chosen from a record 28,000 online entries. Finalists ... More >>
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February 2, 2011
Porsena is Pasta-rrific and Grandma-Friendly
Anneloni, coming at you.The red-accented room at Porsena was only half-full on a Thursday night at 8 p.m. For all the pre-opening hype porchetta queen Sara Jenkins's new restaurant got, the place has seemed surprisingly un-mobbed. Maybe it's its location on a rather un-tread stretch of 7th St ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Chefs Don't Really Like Foodies, Either
It's not exactly breaking news, but CNN's Eatocracy has found that chefs, like most other people, don't really care for foodies.
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January 24, 2011
Sara Jenkins Has Wisely Stopped Reading Yelp
Chie T./YelpPorsenaToday in her monthly column for The Atlantic, Sara Jenkins expounds upon Yelp, that bête noire of chefs, restaurateurs, and grammarians alike.
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December 30, 2010
Saveur Turns to Professionals for Its Annual Saveur 100
With only one day left to disseminate year-end ephemera, Saveur has released a preview of its annual Saveur 100. This year, they've handed the reigns to the professionals, letting chefs like Dan Barber, Sara Jenkins, George Mendes, Daniel Humm, and Sara Moulton choose their favorite ingredien ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
Porsena Makes Sara Jenkins Consider the Comparative Splendor of Hanoi
Carla RoleySara Jenkins files her latest Porsena dispatch in The Atlantic today. It's her first since opening the restaurant a few weeks ago, and, as her column makes clear, those weeks have been hell. At one point she considered turning the place over to Nate Appleman and running off to Hano ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
Open & Closed: Say Hello to Goat Town; Goodbye to Paladar
Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Chiam Chinese Cuisine, known for its tasty dumplings, has shuttered after 19 years in operation in Midtown East. [Zagat Buzz] Orologio in the East Village appears to be on the chopping block. ... More >>
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November 29, 2010
Porsena Will Open This Thursday
blogs.kqed.comThe wait for Porsena is nearly over: Sara Jenkins' long-awaited pasta-centric restaurant will open this Thursday, Dec. 2, per a fun interview with the chef in this week's New York. Also of note: Jenkins, who tells the magazine that she likes to "make food that you crave," may re ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
Sara Jenkins Sings the Praises of Dried Pasta
J.C. Reid/29-95.com "So much of the fresh pasta we buy here is generally bad," Sara Jenkins once told us. Today in The Atlantic she makes her case for the dried stuff, which the gourmet orthodoxy would have us believe is vastly inferior to the freshly made variety.
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October 25, 2010
Sara Jenkins Questions the Charity of All of Those Benefits We Keep Getting Press Releases for
A couple of weeks ago, a tasting event at the New York Wine & Food Festival drove Dirt Candy's Amanda Cohen to more or less lose her shit. Cohen, who'd spent 10 days prepping for the event, only to be rewarded by indifference and thievery by its attendees, isn't alone wondering about how much ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
Sara Jenkins Explores the 'Strange, Sad' Restaurant Auction Demimonde
Restaurant auctions always struck as the culinary version of an estate sale, wherein folks gather to score good deals off of the recently deceased. And Sara Jenkins' latest column for The Atlantic pretty much confirms that impression.
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September 27, 2010
The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday
Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Chan ... More >>
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September 27, 2010
Sara Jenkins Chronicles the Opening of Porsena for The Atlantic
Carla RoleyStarting today, Sara Jenkins is writing a column for the Atlantic Food Channel chronicling the opening of her new restaurant, Porsena. In her first installment, Jenkins writes at length about the merits of dried pasta and reiterates what she told us about wanting to open a place wh ... More >>
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September 24, 2010
Posts of the Week
It is now Friday afternoon, and thus time to look back on the week that was: Our Man Sietsema ranked Our 10 Best Chinese Restaurants, 2010 Edition. Brooklyn Winery's Conor McCormack discussed urban winemaking, the science in the glass, and why winemakers are so beer-happy. Battle of the banana cr ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Chatting With Sara Jenkins: Fake Olive Oil, Jumping on the Greenmarket Bandwagon, and Williamsburg Restaurants That Feel Like Bars
Carla RoleySara JenkinsYesterday we spoke with Sara Jenkins about Porsena, the pasta restaurant she's planning to open down the street from Porchetta next month. Today, in the second part of the interview, the chef discusses how she ended up settling in New York following her European upbrin ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Governors Island Will Become Pig Island on Oct. 2
Jimmy Carbone, proprietor of Jimmy's No. 43 and Craft Beer proselytizer, is going to be busy next week. In addition to hosting a number of Craft Beer Week events, he's gearing up for Pig Island, the pork and beer blow-out he's presiding over on Governors Island on Saturday, Oct. 2. The event ... More >>
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September 21, 2010
Chatting With Sara Jenkins: Porsena, Eataly, and the Simple Beauty of Pasta With Tomato Sauce
Carla RoleySara JenkinsWidely celebrated for the black magic she works with boneless pork roast at Porchetta, Sara Jenkins currently has her hands full opening Porsena, her new pasta restaurant down the block from Porchetta on East 7th Street. Jenkins, who spent much of her childhood in Tusca ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
De Gustibus Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary Next Week
On the eighth floor, chefly nirvana.De Gustibus has been holding cooking classes on the eighth floor of Macy's since 1980, providing us hapless plebes with the opportunity to learn firsthand from the likes of Mario Batali, Jacques Pépin, Madhur Jaffrey, Sara Jenkins, Edna Lewis, and Al ... More >>
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July 26, 2010
Dish #91: Porchetta's Roasted Carrots
While Porchetta is far from a vegetarian paradise, Sara Jenkins applies the same thoughtful care to her vegetable sides as she does to the lusty hunks of pork that are her tiny shop's main attraction.
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July 12, 2010
New York's Cheap Eats Issue
Out today is New York's Cheap Eats issue, wherein Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite round up the year's myriad developments in (mostly) affordable eating. They've got your burgers, your new-wave Asian (Fatty 'Cue, Baohaus, Umi Nom, et al.), your vegetarian, your noodles, fried chicken, and so on. B ... More >>
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June 18, 2010
Our 10 Best Things to Eat at Locavorish Outdoor Markets
The Bent Spoon sells its superlative scoops at the New Amsterdam Market. Where did it land on our list? Street fairs may suck, and the Greenpoint Food Market may have closed in the face of threats from the killjoys at the health department, but the summer months are rife with plenty of other ... More >>
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March 1, 2010
Porchetta to Spawn a Piglet?
It looks like Sara Jenkins is planning to open a second establishment on East 7th Street: Eater took a look at the agenda for CB3's upcoming SLA Committee meeting and noticed that Jenkins is applying for a restaurant wine license for 21-23 East 7th Street, which was formerly the home of the Burmese ... More >>
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February 2, 2010
Vegetarian Delights of NYC: Roasted Carrots at Porchetta
Porchetta's roasted carrots: get them while you can. Porchetta, with its pig-centric menu, pig-centric name, and pig-centric display case, wouldn't seem to remotely qualify as a vegetarian paradise. And that's because it's not, as anyone who's stared down its lustrous hunks of stuffed, roast ... More >>
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November 19, 2009
Part 2 of Our Jimmy Carbone Interview: the Joys of Porchetta, the Folly of Pomegranate Beverages
Yesterday, we chatted with Jimmy Carbone about the history of his East 7th Street bar and restaurant, Jimmy's 43. Today, Jimmy talks beer, bacon, and his favorite New York meal. At Jimmy's No. 43 you offer more than 40 beers--do you have a favorite? Well, it depends on the season. I actuall ... More >>
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November 18, 2009
Jimmy's No. 43's Jimmy Carbone Talks Good Beer, Cassoulet Cook-offs, and Loving the Locavores
"Do you mind if we talk in here?" Jimmy Carbone gestures to his narrow basement kitchen at Jimmy's 43, outfitted with hot plates, metal racks holding dishes, and wooden chopping boards. Carbone already has the onions out, waiting to be diced for a peperonata he's making for this evening's Ho ... More >>
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September 15, 2009
Sara Jenkins Heading Uptown for a Night
Sara Jenkins will take a turn behind the burners at Txikito on September 28. The Porchetta chef will be cooking a five-course pasta dinner as part of the restaurant's Txoko Monday series. Txokos, or Sociedades Gastronomica, are private dining clubs; there are more than 200 scattered throughout the B ... More >>
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September 8, 2009
What's Happening This Week: Craft Beer Week & New Amsterdam Market
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! Queens County Farm Dinner Queens County Farm Museum September 10, 6-10:30 p.m. Join Top Chef alum Camille Becerra and former owner of San Francisco's SPQR Danie ... More >>
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May 28, 2009
Under the Toque--Ryan Skeen Bids Irving Mill a Porky Goodbye; John Tesar Drops a Barrage of F-Bombs On His Way Out of Fishtail
Ryan Skeen is, in fact, leaving Irving Mill, as was rumored on The Feedbag. The Feed confirms that his last day of service is June 7. But Skeen isn't going quietly. He's enlisted the help of other pork-loving chefs--Porchetta's Sara Jenkins, Annisa's Anita Lo, and The General Greene's Nick Morgenste ... More >>
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September 22, 2008
The Very Early Word: Porchetta
Ryan Skeen is, in fact, leaving Irving Mill, as was rumored on The Feedbag. The Feed confirms that his last day of service is June 7. But Skeen isn't going quietly. He's enlisted the help of other pork-loving chefs--Porchetta's Sara Jenkins, Annisa's Anita Lo, and The General Greene's Nick Morgenste ... More >>

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