Tastemakers

Facebook/Marcella Hazan

My Facebook Friend, Marcella Hazan

My one and only experience with Marcella Hazan was on Facebook. In a fit of desperate writerly need, I brazenly reached out to her via an IM. To my enormous surprise, she responded straight away.

Just Food Presents: Let Us Eat Local

On October 2, dozens of the region’s best restaurants, ice cream shops, breweries and vineyards will come together to celebrate the bounty of local food available in New York City.

On the Line at Esca

David Pasternack, who since 2000 has been executive chef and co-owner of one of New York’s most celebrated seafood institutions, is not the kind of cook who is tempted by celebrity or stage lights, unless they’re to help him find the right lure in a tackle box in the dark of the early morning sea.