In 1999, like most baby millennials, our parents dictated the family television. In my Midwestern home, I woke up to Katie Couric and Matt Lauer’s news reports on Today before school. After I returned home, the ritutal continued. As mom prepared dinner, usually a meatloaf, buttery mashed potatoes, and a side of green beans– I’d […]
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 […]
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. […]
