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May 2, 2012
Under the Toque: Asian Food Craze, New Menu at WD-50
Wylie Dufresne at WD-50 is creating a completely different menu with brand-new dishes. [NYTimes] Iron Man competitor Joe Bastianich talks about his new book and the dark secrets of restaurants. "The skills of a maître d' are the same skills a hooker has--to please the clients. . . . Make them fee ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
Last Chance to Taste Wylie Dufresne's 'Stairway to Heaven'
Every chef has a "Stairway to Heaven," that annoyingly crowd-pleasing dish they can't take off the menu. For Wylie Dufresne of the Lower East Side gem WD-50, it's his modern rendition of eggs Benedict, which once blew our collective minds with fried cubes of Hollandaise. Well, it's the end of an era ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
Gwynnett Street's Justin Hilbert on How He Found The Gig on Craigslist, Takes Inspiration From Wylie Dufresne
New kid on the block, Gwynnett Street (on Graham Avenue in Greenpoint) is getting a ton of recent buzz. The reason? This is the coming-out party of Justin Hilbert (formerly of WD-50), plus his partnership with Esca's former wine director Carl McCoy, as well as a rotating menu, creative eats, etc. ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Marge Becomes a Food Blogger on this Sunday's Simpsons [Yawn]
20th Century Fox via Grub StreetI recognize most of the characters, but who's the bald guy? The end-times for Foodism are near, my friends. This Sunday, Marge Simpson turns into a food blogger, as reported in an extensive Grub Street interview with Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman. To ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Sandwich Spinoffs: Restaurants Spread Their Sammies
Lauren BloombergTribeca gets a mouthful at Pane Panelle. First, there was speculation that the owners of Torrisi Italian Specialties would take over the vacant space next door. Then it was announced last spring that they would indeed turn the adjacent spot into a second location: A spin-off o ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Portland's Andy Ricker Coming to NYC; Jonnatan Leiva 'Out' at 10 Downing
Gualtiero Marchesi, the first chef in Italy to win three Michelin stars, teamed up with McDonald's to create two burgers and a dessert. [Daily Meal] Eddie Huang announced on his blog that Andy Ricker, of Pok Pok in Portland, is going to open a "wing shack" in the old BaoHaus space. [Zagat Bu ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
VICE Munchies Is Back, and Peckish
VICE Munchies, the two-year-old Web series that has trained its lens on the likes of David Chang, Andrew Carmellini, Brooks Headley, and Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis, has just kicked off a new season with an episode featuring Wylie Dufresne. As per the series's usual format, the chef ha ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Le Fooding Set to Conquer New York with Culinary Collaborations
Le FoodingSome of the faces you'll see at this year's eventThis fall is filled with food and beverage-centric events (hey there, Brooklyn Pour), but one of the most innovative is the annual extravaganza from Le Fooding, the Paris-based French food-guide-and-festival group, which will be hosti ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Dewey Dufresne to Open BYGGYZ, an Unusually Monikered Sandwich Project
A sandwich, though not a Dufresne sandwich.Sandwich shops just keep on rising from the ashes of the 2008 financial meltdown, and the latest indication of their still surging popularity comes from none other than Wylie Dufresne's dad.
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August 15, 2011
James Murphy, Wylie Dufresne, And Others To Headline Le Grand Fooding's Campfire Session Next Month
On September 17 Le Grand Fooding will host what it's calling the Campfire Session at the Elizabeth Street Garden downtown; there'll be dishes designed by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and WD-50's Wylie Dufresne, DJ sets by Nancy Whang and DJ Mehdi, and performances by Sondre Lerche and Hanni ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
Lucky Peach Is Now Available for Consumption
Following the months of buildup that greet any endeavor remotely related to Momofuku, Lucky Peach, the quarterly magazine from David Chang, Peter Meehan, and McSweeney's, is now available at bookstores and newsstands.
Blogs
June 3, 2011
April Bloomfield Will Help Russ & Daughters Celebrate the New Catch Holland Herring Season
Russ & DaughtersJune is to clupeophiles - or herring freaks as they're more commonly known - what March is to college basketball fans. Why? Because it marks the beginning of the all too brief New Catch Holland Herring season.
Dining
June 1, 2011
Empellon--Alex Stupak's Big Experiment
Can a renowned pastry chef make a decent taco?
Blogs
January 25, 2011
Savoy Will Start Serving a Ton of Cassoulet Next Week
On the heels of last weekend's Cassoulet Cook-Off comes the welcome news that more is on the way, courtesy of Savoy.
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January 12, 2011
Alan Richman Will Appear on Treme
Four years after he wrote a post-Katrina appraisal of New Orleans restaurants that angered the city's inhabitants almost as much as than the entire Bush administration, Alan Richman is returning to the scene of his crime, sort of. In an interview with Grub Street, the GQ critic mentioned tha ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Top Chef: "There's a Fine Line Between Homage and Parody"
How do you follow Jen's shocking, out-in-a-blaze-of-lunatic-glory elimination? By getting rid of two more chefs in one episode. Last night's Top Chef got down to its dirty business quickly, as everybody stampeded into the kitchen to see Padma standing there with David Chang, introduced by P ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Being Fat Costs America $168 Billion; Peanut Brittle All the Rage
A new study reveals that nearly 17 percent of U.S. medical costs can be blamed on obesity - some $168 billion. [USA Today] Conceiving your child in early spring can increase its chances of developing food allergies, according to Finnish researchers. [BusinessWire] Meanwhile, men who eat a l ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
Top Chef Season 7, Episode 10: Alex Takes a Swan Dive, Kelly Goes to Paris
Wylie 'n Padma, with Wylie looking wily. I'd been at a birthday party at Momofuku just before Top Chef Season 7, Episode 10 aired. Knowing that I'd drawn the short straw and had to write about it, I cycled home in a lather, filled to the brim with fried chicken, corn salad, and pork-belly ss ... More >>
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June 8, 2010
Fish 'n' Chips Ice Cream Expands the Weirdo Ice Cream Universe
Fredericks DairiesIf it looks like fish 'n' chips and tastes like fish 'n' chips...Although we haven't experienced the pleasure (terror?) of sampling it, we're willing to bet that the fish 'n' chips ice cream being produced by an English dairy company qualifies for the Strange Snacks of the W ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
Wylie Dufresne and John Zorn Will Help Russ & Daughters Celebrate the Arrival of New Catch Holland Herring Season
Humble fish, mighty flavor.Clupeophiles, rejoice! New Catch Holland herring season is nearly upon us, with less than three weeks left until the first shipment arrives at Russ & Daughters on June 8. Last year, the appetizing mecca celebrated with a herring and aquavit pairing at the Roger Smit ... More >>
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May 10, 2010
Colicchio, Ripert, Dufresne, and Chang Have Their Treme Moment
As anticipated, Tom Colicchio, Wylie Dufresne, David Chang, and Eric Ripert popped up on Treme last night. In the clip above, they show up at Patois, a NOLA restaurant run by chef Janette Desautel. They're introduced by a waitress, who tells Desautel that "four guys with a lot of attitude walked i ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
Which Restaurateur Do You Think is Pooh? Sam Sifton Wants to Know.
Jose the Pooh?Over at Diner's Journal, Sam Sifton is asking, "Which restaurateur most resembles Pooh?" An odd question, perhaps, until you read his review of Pulino's in which he compares owner Keith McNally to the "dour and slightly disheveled" Eeyore. So far, commenters have Alice Waters st ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
Ripert, Chang, Colicchio & Dufresne on Treme; Marcus Samuelsson Demoted to Shareholder at Aquavit
Josh Moulton, who was the executive chef at West in Los Angeles, will take over the kitchen at Monkey Bar, which recently lost consulting chef Larry Forgione to P.J. Clarke's. [NY Times] Aquavit is no longer referring to Marcus Samuelsson as its chef-owner. The Top Chef Masters contender is ... More >>
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May 4, 2010
Countdown to New Holland Herring at Russ and Daughters
Last year's catchThe time for New Holland herring--equal to the finest sushi--is almost upon us.
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April 30, 2010
Our Ten Worst Food Show Hairstyles
On this fine Friday, we turn our thoughts from food to follicles. Among the many, many reasons to watch televised cooking shows are the coiffures sported by their hosts and contestants. Top Chef wouldn't be Top Chef without its dependable supply of fauxhawks and Sapphic mullets, or, for that matter, ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
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 BeardNew York has done we ... More >>
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March 12, 2010
What Animal Does Your Favorite Chef Look Like? Phase Two
Guy Fieri looks like an ostrich A couple of days ago in a sort of stoned fugue, we got the paranoid idea that chefs were really animals posing as people. Not a very good idea, certainly, but one that proved so much fun to investigate, that we did it again.
Blogs
February 18, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
February 10, 2010
Top Chef Masters Line-Up Has Been Unleashed
Entertainment Weekly got its hands on the line-up for Season 2 of Top Chef Masters, which will premiere on April 7. Of the 22 competitors, six were featured on Season 1.
Blogs
February 3, 2010
Couples to Splurge on Eating Out this Valentine's Day; Are Fancy Restaurants Getting Louder?
China is doing a 10-day emergency inspection of dairy products following reports that some of the tainted products that the government ordered destroyed during the food safety scandal of 2008 had been repackaged for sale. [NY Times] Couples are expected to spend less on Valentine's Day gift ... More >>
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September 16, 2009
In Praise of Food-Based Fundraisers
Townend Photography/flickrOne of the great things about food-based fundraisers is that they provide valuable opportunities to indulge in base gluttony in service of a noble cause. And September happens to be full of such opportunities. Tonight, Let Us Eat Local, a fundraiser for Just Food, wi ... More >>
Blogs
June 19, 2009
The Blogroll Gazette--R.I.P Albin & Who the Hell Is Kelly Choi?
This week in food blogs... The week started with reports pouring in about last weekend's not-so-great Great American Food & Music Fest, and a (somewhat defensive) apology from mastermind and Serious Eats founder Ed Levine, who claimed logistical problems for the poor organization of the event. The ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2009
The Blogroll Gazette--Eat Me Daily Hypes Obama Food Book; The 'Bag Drools Over Men's Health' Pig Porn
This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily discovered a new book entitled The Obama Menu: Dining with Barack Obama, which compiles menus, photos, quotes, and recipes for dishes that Obama may have eaten. EMD was hardly thrilled by the spoiler alert, though: "Multiple appearances by food guru Alice Wat ... More >>
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April 23, 2009
The Secret's Out--Sherry Society Coming to a Back Room Near You
You're induction into the secret society will go something like this: You'll receive an invitation telling you where and when to convene. You'll arrive, be greeted with a cocktail, and led down a flight of stairs or perhaps a darkened hallway to a secret room where others share your enthusiasm. We ... More >>
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April 9, 2009
Under the Toque--Chefs and Food Sellers Band Together to Create Supply Chain
Bravo announced the chef'testants slated to compete in the upcoming Top Chef spinoff, Top Chef Masters, which include New Yorkers Wylie Dufresne, Anita Lo, Nils Noren, Christopher Lee and Jonathan Waxman. [Eater] Christian Delouvrier of La Goulue in Bal Harbour, Miami and previously of Alain Ducas ... More >>
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February 12, 2009
What a Long, Strange Season It's Been
Movin' on out: Leah (photo: Bravo)How to cap-off the chefs' time in New York--a time that began with them peeling apples in the Big Apple, then had them pretending to care about the Foo Fighters and cooking Thanksgiving dinner in toaster ovens in the middle of the summer, and featured Padma dressed ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2009
If Batali and Bourdain Were on Top Chef last night
Strange coincidence...or is it? Last night's Top Chef had the cheftestants cooking "last suppers" for culinary luminaries Wylie Dufresne, Lidia Bastianich, Marcus Samuelsson, Jacques Pepin, and James Beard Foundation president Susan Ungaro, while today on Serious Eats, Mario Batali and Anthony Bourd ... More >>
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July 23, 2008
Wylie Dufresne Plays with Tofu
Strange coincidence...or is it? Last night's Top Chef had the cheftestants cooking "last suppers" for culinary luminaries Wylie Dufresne, Lidia Bastianich, Marcus Samuelsson, Jacques Pepin, and James Beard Foundation president Susan Ungaro, while today on Serious Eats, Mario Batali and Anthony Bourd ... More >>
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June 18, 2008
Sietsema on Crif Dogs' Secret
Strange coincidence...or is it? Last night's Top Chef had the cheftestants cooking "last suppers" for culinary luminaries Wylie Dufresne, Lidia Bastianich, Marcus Samuelsson, Jacques Pepin, and James Beard Foundation president Susan Ungaro, while today on Serious Eats, Mario Batali and Anthony Bourd ... More >>
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December 20, 2007
Our Man Sietsema: 'Hooray for BYOB!'
Strange coincidence...or is it? Last night's Top Chef had the cheftestants cooking "last suppers" for culinary luminaries Wylie Dufresne, Lidia Bastianich, Marcus Samuelsson, Jacques Pepin, and James Beard Foundation president Susan Ungaro, while today on Serious Eats, Mario Batali and Anthony Bourd ... More >>
NYC Life
September 4, 2007
Opening Night
First round of Tailor diners praise servers, renounce narcissism, eat pork belly
Blogs
December 14, 2006
Chowhounds on Sietsema Diss in Time Out
First round of Tailor diners praise servers, renounce narcissism, eat pork belly
Dining
June 27, 2006
Seize the Egg
Adventures in eating at new Lamb joint on East 5th Street
NYC Life
February 14, 2006
Tongue in Cheek
Eating la lingua loca
NYC Life
January 3, 2006
Culinary Smack Down
Iron Chef New York: Batali vs. Dufresne
Dining
November 22, 2005
Letter From Chicago
Strange and scientific culinary doings invade the Windy City
NYC Life
November 15, 2005
Night of the $12 Cocktail
Wherein the Unrepentant Sissy Drinker and pal enjoy fall drinks at WD-50; plus, Pegu Club's weird colonial homage
NYC Life
October 25, 2005
Yuzu Juice for the Rest of Us
Shopping like a chef
NYC Life
June 28, 2005
Paunch it Up
Pork belly goes elite
Art
April 15, 2003
Culinary School Confidential
So You Want to Become a Chef? If You've Got the Time and the Money, New York's Got the Schools
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