Check out DeVonn Francis! Artist, Chef, and Founder of Yardy, a mecca for the LGBTQ+ and migrant community in NYC. Follow him on Instagram @tuna_turner

Cheung grew up in Hong Kong until the age of 8 and visited every summer afterward, where he spent lots of time cooking traditional Cantonese with his family. He became a chef and moved to NYC working his way through the ranks before meeting his now-wife, Sara Thompson at the Little Beet Table. Chung and […]

Ohm Suansilphong, Chef and Restaurant owner of Fish Cheeks in NYC, is highlighting traditional Thai food in a family-style environment inspired by his family roots and upbringing. Ohm’s love for cooking came from learning and watching in the kitchen at his father’s restaurant throughout his childhood. From this love, Ohm went on to study at […]

End of summer, start of school. What's one thing that changes almost overnight? You got it, traffic. Add to that a 15% increase in spending on asphalt pavement (compared to last year) under the recent federal budget agreement, and you may have really bad traffic and...

As a dietitian, I am always on the lookout for science-based research regarding health and nutrition. The search almost always leads to obesity and how to treat/prevent this epidemic; but recently I was led to something quite different. “Everything You Know About...

What’s “The Difference”? For this Harvest Week, we will use our menus and our messaging to bring into focus some food-related issues of our time: the benefits of local and seasonal; reducing our consumption of meat; and hunger awareness. We will feature local foods...

Many of us read Danny Meyer's book, Setting the Table, some years ago when we featured it in MG Book Club and discussed it at meetings around that time. He and Union Square Hospitality Group (or "USHG," his company), continue to be a source for best practices, habits,...

“Counting macros” appears to have become the latest and greatest diet trend everyone is talking about. When I first heard “counting macros” I assumed it was some complicated mathematical formula; turns out this formula is basic nutrition 101. Macros are an abbreviated...

Recently my young son asked me “do people get fat from eating French fries?” innocently reiterating our society’s simplistic notion that we are overweight from eating too much food. Even as a healthcare professional, I was taught that being overweight is a simple...