(NEW YORK CITY) - My advice: Don’t miss the little fava bean crostino, or the amazingly fine wood-fired shrimp, and definitely go for the chicken. The pastas were all wonderful, too.
Mom liked this dish even better than the shrimp, because mussels were not only quick and easy (especially if she could get me to clean them), but they also had one additional virtue: They were very inexpensive.
(NEW YORK CITY) - In times like these nothing feels quite so comforting as a little piece of the past. That’s the charm of Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter’s just-opened Monkey Bar.
In the first chapter of her best-selling memoir, Ruth Reichl introduces her mother, a notoriously bad cook who ultimately shaped Reichl’s view of food.
