The C-CAP, or Careers through Culinary Arts Program held their 2018 annual benefit on the last day of February. It featured over 30 of NYC’s finest Restaurants and chefs. Since founded in 1990 by Richard Grausman , a cookbook author and culinary educator, C-CAP is a non-profit that assists over 20,000 students a year in […]
Questioning the functionality of the Visual, Written and Classic Arts has become an epidemic, via the advent of the portable web and iphone. Who has time to paint when filters and image reconstruction apps exist? Why carry heavy books around–with the inventions of Audible, Kindle and Utube–only to strain the eyes? Who attends plays, operas or […]
As a kid, I religiously peeled the skins off grapes first. A bitter foil to the soft fleshened interior to follow, I bit them brief and swallowed whole as a sort of drum roll. That stark of a distinction between the skin and its grape body hadn’t existed again until this day… several decades later. […]
