Print Issue: November/December 2013: Issue No. 32

Mulled Wine

Booze, heat and spices warm you up three ways at once.

Consider Cheesecake

Whether slung on diner plates or reimagined for four-star pastry tastings, the classic slice’s relationship with New York changes with the New Yorkers who make it.

Flour Power

Kamel Saci might be facing off against a fellow judo fighter in a championship match today, if a knee injury and a subsequent, much more happy, accident hadn’t intercepted his Olympic-bound path. Instead, at NoHo’s adored Il Buco Alimentari e Vineria, the former French champ turned boulanger is knocking out an awesome assemblage of bespoke breads that go head to head with the city’s best.

It Takes a Rock-Piled Village

In the dawn of the 1980s, Nicola Marzovilla was a humble workaday ladieswear salesman with a dream: to make New Yorkers know and love the cuisine of his homeland, Puglia, Italy.