Chef Wylie Dufresne is often cited as being at the forefront of molecular gastronomy, but even he, who took the James Beard Award this year for Best Chef in New York City, had interesting take aways from The Taste of Science dinner last week.
Read the full article on WSJ, and don’t miss the inspiring slideshow.
Eleven Madison Park and Nomad owners Will Guidara and Daniel Humm are featured on the Google Talks series promoting their new book, “I love New York”, and getting to the root of “New York Cuisine”. A lively interview with insight into their growing empire and clever minds.
In a fun series launching today, the NYC Food Truck Association goes “Behind the Wheel” with Natasha Case, co-founder of Coolhaus Ice Cream Truck.
It’s not often that a single food takes a city by storm, but Dominique Ansel’s Cronut seems to have done just that. Have you tried it yet?
A good follow up on Grub Hub and Seamless Web, the internet’s two largest online delivery services merging, after going through federal hearings, can be read via on WSJ online.
Mouth, with “The Best Food You’ve Never Heard Of, ” spent a year focusing on mostly local products. They announced today that “it became clear that “indie” is not about a place, it’s about passion, entrepreneurship, craft and, taste,” and dropped the “New York” from their original name (New York Mouth).
Since they frequently get the questions from their members as to how letter grade inspection cycles work, the NYC Alliance sent out a quick explanatory memo this afternoon:
The following is how the inspection cycle works:
The Alliance suggests not to hesitate to contact them if you have any questions about food safety and the Letter Grade inspection system.
Food Tech + Connect is co-hosting the inaugural Internet Week NY Food Tech Brunch with Food52, Cookbook Create, The Harvard Common Press Track and many others. Attendance will see you joining Internet Week speakers, food and drink do-ers, innovators, bloggers and media for drinks and bites to celebrate the launch of the Food Tech track.
Big news for specialty coffee in Gotham: Stumptown Coffee Roasters will open its first stand-alone Manhattan cafe this week, on 8th Street, and Intelligentsia Coffee will open in the High Line Hotel in Chelsea. This will be Stumptown’s most ambitious cafe to date — a $1 Million buildout, and Intelligentsia’s first cafe in New York.
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