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November 10, 2014 Issue
Cover Story
The Food & Drink Issue
Food has long been an obsession at New York: where to eat well, where to eat cheaply, what dish on which menu soars above the rest. And then there’s what you do in your own kitchen (a room New Yorkers do actually use, contrary to popular wisdom). This year, we created a full-fledged manual for home cooking in New York, something that could live usefully in a kitchen for many months. At its core is Make, a collection of very fun parties where we took pictures, and recorded recipes, and tested them for you. To help you make them, we’ve assembled Buy, an exhaustive, extremely appetizing guide to food shopping, to help you find the best butchers, cheesemongers, olive-oil purveyors, and schinken shops, and a surprisingly sophisticated frozen-goods section of a grocery store. To lubricate your dinner parties, we’ve also created Drink, which sources the best local beer, smartest liquors, and sommelier-endorsed wines.
On the Cover: Food styling by Jamie Kimm. Photographs by Bobby Doherty/New York Magazine. Illustration by Ellaphant in the Room.
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Buy
The New Guard of Grocers
Selling bread, seafood, meats, baked goods, cheese, produce, and everything else.
Shop Like a Chef
Hooni Kim, Alex Raij, and Ivan Orkin share their favorite food stores.
Secrets of the Trader Joe’s Freezer
An ode to freezer-aisle gourmet.
Around the World in 25 Shops
New York’s classic international stores.
The New York Larder
Contemporary versus classic, then and now.
Or Just Order In
35 takeout suggestions for throwing a party by simply picking up the phone.
Make
Branzino and Quail for 100
Prepared by Jody Williams and Rita Sodi, of their new restaurant Via Caroda.
Bagel Brunch for 16
In a Saugerties backyard, prepared by Noah Bernamoff and Matt Kliegman of Black Seed Bagels.
Pork Roast for 12
Prepared by Josh Saffer, sous-chef at Del Posto, in a 350-square-foot studio.
Vegetarian Feast for 8
Prepared by Jean-Georges Vongerichten on the eve of opening his 24th restaurant.
Honeymoon Hanger Steak for 2
In a tree, prepared (in a van) by chef Ignacio Mattos of Estela.
Lamb Barbacoa Tacos for 30
Prepared by Alex Stupak of his new restaurant Empellón al Pastor.
Late-Night Grilled Cheese for 20
At Shamir Bailey's after-party; delivered by the Commodore's Stephen Tanner.
Nantucket Bay Scallops for 25
Hosted by Christophe de Menil at her uptown apartment; prepared by Canard, Inc.
Stuffed Salmon at Valentino’s
Dinner for a lot of famous friends, with Kim Kardashian, Barbra Streisand, and more.
Drink
The Best Local Beers
And where to buy them.
The Hard Stuff
Cognac, mezcal, rum, vodka, and whiskey in a cocktail, your bar cart, and at a few bars.
Sommelier’s Choice
Six city wine directors call out their favorite bottles.
Alt-Sparkling Wines
Holiday bubbly, from pale to pink to red.
5 Exciting New Wine Bars
Spots that go far beyond bread, cheese, and oaky Chardonnay.
Look Book
Look Book at Midnight
We followed a very particular subspecies of the city’s going-out crowd: a group of Instagram-popular “slash models” as they made their way from dinner in the East Village to a Sophia Lamar–hosted basement bacchanal at Leftfield, to the swank Jane Hotel, to a New Age–y health-and-wellness-themed nightspot known as Body Actualized in Bushwick, picking up friends along the way, shedding others, and encountering one #bachelaurette.
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