Rising star chefs received their culinary awards at the starchefs gala-Tuesday, February 21st. It encapsulated culinary wisdom, skill and severe mission–pastries, cocktail dreams and charcuterie incisions. Gleaming as big and tall as the waterfall-like beams of SoHo’s Capitale venue were chefs, artisans, bartenders, concept visionaries alike. Short rib, pumpkin seed laden spirits, and exquisite […]
“You’re a NOSE” “No you are!” To be complimented as such denotes Ability Proclivity Untimely Sensitivity to smell: the ability to compose and identify fragrances to the point of affecting Memory: A Universal Language Spanning the globe in terms of fragrance archives, so meticulously curated and shelved, it’s no wonder Osswald Perfumery invites exquisite photography, […]
Spooner, Pete Dexter’s latest creative nonfiction masterpiece, published in 2009, 469 pp. by Grand Central Publishing, steers away from his tradition of fundamentally exposing fundamental bigotry, misanthropy and corruption. Chronicling the minutest details of his turbulent childhood, in a series of quick-shot synapses, fractals come to saturate readers’ foreheads, like milk does an animal’s bones. […]
