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Long Island Wines: Cool Climate Elegance

How familiar are you with the wines of Long Island? How good are they? And how do they compare price-wise with other wines you may be drinking? Having participated in a blind challenge last week, the ...

Food-Lover's Guide to Brooklyn
The best markets, artisans, and shops for cooks

City: Brooklyn, New York Population: 2.5 million Local specialties: Pizza; Middle Eastern, Russian, and Polish foods; fresh, local and organic produce at farmers' markets, steak, beer Brooklyn rivals...

Great Escapes: Enjoy Great Greek Wine and Food

Since my return from my Greek wine trip, I just can't seem to get enough Greek food or wine. I have been experimenting with all sorts of grilled vegetables and fish as well as numerous salads. What I ...

Kitchen Tour: Jay's Chelsea Renovation

Jay recently did a complete renovation of his apartment after renting it for nearly eight years and then purchasing it in 2005. It is on the ground floor of an 1860 brownstone. The kitchen was an ...

A Visit to the Food Network Good Food Garden
New York

Last week we spent part of the afternoon exploring a new, improved community garden in Harlem. It was a rundown plot of land, but now, thanks to a Herculean renovation by the Food Network, Share Our S...

Good Food Goes East Coast!
Good Food with Evan Kleiman

This week on Good Food, we got a taste of what it would be like if Evan Kleiman covered New York instead of L.A.! We get a Good-Food-style tour of the Union Square Greenmarket, a special interview wit...

Big Inspiration from Jill Santopietro's Tiny Kitchen

New York Times food tester, blogger and weblogger Jill Santopietro is our tiny kitchen hero. She's a funny, creative and engaging cook. But even better, she really knows what she is doing and she do...

Top Chef New York New Orleans: And the Winner Is...

For the sake of those of you who have this little television nugget on TiVo and plan to save it for the weekend, we'll keep the answer below the jump. For those of you who have some things to discuss ...

Top Chef New York New Orleans: Finale, Part 1

The final four have moved down to New Orleans for the finale (Hello, Emeril!), and we would have eaten just about anything that came out of the kitchen in last night's episode. Beignets, check. Gri...

Top Chef New York: What Would Your Last Meal Be?

Ours would not be squab, we'll tell you that. But squab and peas is what Jacques Pépin would want for his last meal, so that's what Carla cooked. Lydia Bastianich asked for roast chicken. Wylie...

Top Chef New York: Of Eel and Eric Ripert

Have you ever seen someone skin an eel? It's fascinating. Last night's episode of Top Chef was on par with the standards we expect: a high-stakes test of skills, no cheap sponsor challenges, and a ...

Top Chef New York: Super Bowl Showdown

We're going to try to resist all of the football puns swimming around in our minds right now and just tell you that we thought last night's Top Chef was fun. And we actually learned a few things ab...

Top Chef New York: Restaurant Wars!

We're quite sad this morning over the outcome of last night's Top Chef. It was the Restaurant Wars episode, which we thought went abnormally well compared to other seasons. (Maybe we're biased towa...

Top Chef New York: E-I-E-I-O (and Really Good Chicken)

Given the snow coming down outside our window here in New York, the setting of last night's episode of Top Chef—the sunny landscape of Dan Barber's Stone Barns—was almost cruel. It was sort of ...

Top Chef New York: Pop, Pop, Fizz, Fizzle

While we took a break from Top Chef over the holidays, we had several people tell us how bored they are with this season. At first we fought back, if only because we sort of love seeing Ariane win ...

Top Chef New York: And a Martha in a Pear Tree

On last night's Top Chef, we got Martha Stewart, Natasha Richardson, the Harlem Gospel Choir, and dishes inspired by the 12 Days of Christmas. It was dizzying (these one hour and 15 minute episodes...

Top Chef New York: Make-Your-Own Sushi at a Bridal Shower?

No, no, no Gene. No thumbs up. You served deconstructed surf-and-turf sushi at Gail Simmons's bridal shower, then neglected to tell the guests how to eat it. We won't reveal here whether or not Gen...

Top Chef New York: Lights, Camera, Kathie Lee Gifford

Seeing as last Thursday was Thanksgiving, we didn't post our usual recap of Top Chef. But we're back with our thoughts on last night's episode, which had us getting pretty philosophical about the b...

Green NYC: Are You Ready to Pay 6 Cents for a Plastic Bag?

If Mayor Bloomberg has his way, stores will have to start charging 6 cents for every plastic bag they hand out to shoppers. What do you think? At first it might seem like a no-brainer good idea, but c...

Top Chef New York: Hot Dogs and Angry Chefs

Last night on Top Chef, the contestants had to make a hot dog that stood up against New York's finest and then serve lunch at Tom Colicchio's restaurant, Craft. The diners were all rejected applica...

Top Chef New York: Ethnic Foods Galore

We're a little late to the after-party with our Top Chef recap (we're blaming a DVR on the fritz), but we were inspired and excited by this episode. It looks like a good season. Note: We reveal th...

Trader Joe's is Coming to the Upper West Side
New York

According to a post we just read on New York Magazine's website, Trader Joe's is planning to open a store on 72nd Street and Broadway next year. Could it alleviate some of the unbearable crowding at F...

Hey, New York! Has Your CSA Started Yet?

We've heard the cool spring has made for slim pickins early on, so some CSAs have delayed their first delivery. Ours starts next week. So, what are we looking forward to the most?...

Inspiration: The Breakfast Manifesto

As we've told you before, we're always looking for breakfast inspiration, and ways to make the most perfunctory meal of the day more interesting. That's why we were thrilled to get New York Magazine'...

NYC Market Report: Green Flea on the Upper West Side

We frequently show you what's popping up at the Union Square and Grand Army Plaza Greenmarkets, but there are many small markets tucked into corners of the city that deserve a mention. One of these i...