New York is a truly global city. As a native New Yorker, one of the hardest things to find these days is another true New Yorker. Naturally, there are a lot of folks from other states and of course, many from other countries. I often find myself playing an informal…
Although a rich diversity of Chinese regional cooking is always available within the five boroughs, popular favor tends to fix on one style at a time. For the past several years, that spotlight has fallen on Sichuan food, the lip-tingling spicy-peppercorn cuisine of the…
Once you’re tucked into your table, sipping a nice glass of pink wine or a vermouth-forward cocktail, dinner unfolds with the easy, off-the-cuff elegance of a weeknight dinner party. A golden wedge of farinata, a sort of savory chickpea-flour pancake, arrives buried under a riot of marinated…
