Last night I hosted with a friend, and the guests were ourselves. We cooked for each other, together. This particular friend is an excellent cook, our friendship being formed through the accumulation of instances in creative home cooking with one another, each delicious outcome cementing our friendship further, in a series of alchemical bondings in the…
Of course, on this occasion it would be convenient to speak once again of the enchantment and splendour of the Italian coasts in summer, to linger over the vertical photos and videos on Instagram (which are often more real than reality), over the white tablecloths overlooking the sea, smeared with coffee and fruit: in other…
If you’re on Instagram then there’s a large chance you’ve come across a user named @byashleyenglish one of those who broadcasts her ‘everything I eat in a day’ reels from an idyllic pastoral location in America. While stroking ponies and walking barefoot on the beach, she’s seen sipping raw milk, smiling eerily at the camera…
For the second consecutive year and building on a triumphant 2023 debut, celebrated island restaurant, Tillies from Palm Heights in Grand Cayman will arrive in New York City this week. The restaurant will be serve a family-style sharing menu from the 41st floor at WSA in FiDi for a six-day Fashion Week pop-up. Tillies’ head…
Is there such a thing as an authentic curry, especially since there are as many curry recipes as there are people in the subcontinent? This isn’t authentic in any absolute way, but it is authentic to me in that I have made it in my kitchen numerous times, each version differing from the other based…
It’s a heatwave and I’m sitting in Bungee Space in Nolita drinking a guava cold brew from a glass with a rim coated with salted plum sugar thinking, why is New York so cool? So cool that this heatwave feels soothing. As I drink my cool coffee I’m thinking about the Matrix, and how this drink…