When Bruno Ravioli closed its Upper West Side store on for good Sept. 25 it was a sad day for neighborhood pasta lovers. But the Upper West Side’s loss will soon be the Upper East Side’s gain. Bruno will be opening a new uptown shop at Madison and 98th Street, according to company owner Jim [...]
For home cooks of a certain age, there was Julia Child for traditional French cuisine. And for preparing classic Italian dishes, there was Marcella Hazan, author of Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking.
Carrying on the family business, Marcella’s son, Giuliano Hazan, a chef and teacher in his own right, has just issued his latest cookbook, Thirty [...]
The French are madly debating whether their iconic cuisine should be enshrined as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, according to a story in yesterday’s Times. It seems that there’s concern that traditional French foods and agricultural methods are disappearing. To my mind, any cuisine, even French food, needs to make it on it’s [...]
At Insieme, a spare unadorned midtown Italian eatery that’s helmed by two former chefs from Hearth, we were treated to the kind of first-rate meal that’s really tough to find in the tourist-clogged theater district.
My one regret was that in order to make an 8 p.m. curtain, we had to rush through our [...]
After the server gave us the hard sell on the various dishes listed on A Voce’s dinner menu, I was ready for a fabulous dining experience at this Flatiron Italian. But, sad to say, the selling was more impressive than the product.
We went there with an out-of-town friend, intending to dazzle her with the cooking [...]
