Author Archives: peter.hobbs

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Before opening Palo Santo in 2006, chef/owner Jacques Gautier spent a year exploring and eating his way through the markets of Latin America. His research created the foundation upon which his menu rests today. ...

 
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Diego Perez-Olave and Ramiro Lescano, two friends from Uruguay, opened Tabaré in Williamsburg because they were tired of having to go to Queens to find Uruguayan food. We stopped by to learn more about Uruguayan ...

 
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Papa Diagne moved from Senegal to Brooklyn over twenty years ago. It wasn't until he got here that he found his calling in the kitchen. When Papa Diagne moved to Brooklyn from Dakar ...

 
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Louis Coluccio's grandfather opened the iconic D. Coluccio & Sons Italian specialty foods shop in Bensonhurst over fifty years ago. Louis and his wife Alison chose to carry on the family tradition by ...

 
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At Kings County Distillery, based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, corn grown on the shores of Seneca Lake at Lakeview Organic Grain, is transformed into moonshine and bourbon. Is there anything more American than corn? ...

 
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by Heather Phelps-Lipton 1. It’s mad scientist season at Ample Hills Winter means more time to experiment at Ample Hills of Prospect Heights.  Behold: candy cane        maple bacon eggnog               munchies* *pretzel-infused ice cream with ...

 
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Chef Kyle McClelland, of Prospect in Fort Greene. At Prospect in Fort Greene, chef Kyle McClelland likes taking classic, familiar dishes and infusing them with a little fun, an element of surprise, by giving them ...

 
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Jan Matysiak, brewmaster at Red Hook's Sixpoint Brewery, pours a glass of 3Beans, a Baltic porter brewed ancient-style with Romano beans and cacao bean husks from Mast Brothers Chocolate, then infused with cold-brewed ...

 
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Matt Fisher, pitmaster at Fletcher's Brooklyn Barbecue in Gowanus. At Fletcher's Matt uses Kansas City and Texas-style smoking techniques with a couple of Brooklyn twists - all meat is pastured and ...

 
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The experience of good food, made well, and enjoyed with good people, can open a portal to appreciation of all that is beautiful and right in the otherwise generally messy, brutal and petty strivings of ...

 
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Jonathan Greenberg of Rosco's Pizza in Crown Heights mastered the art of simple Italian cooking and pizza making at Franny's and Paulie Gee's. Now, he's channeling all ...

 
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Joseph Aponte intended to make his living as catcher for the New York Mets. By chance, he applied for a job as a barback at Littleneck and ended up as chef. Littleneck touts itself as ...

 
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Leonardo Molina, the owner of Bushwick’s Arepera Guacuco, grew up on the island of Margarita, which lies just off the coast of Venezuela, in a typically warm, azure, swath of the Caribbean Sea. He ...

 
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At Arthur on Smith, Chef Joe Isidori reinterprets the Italian-American dishes he grew up on with his own more modern (Michelin-starred) sensibilities and techniques. Chef Joe Isidori grew up in the Bronx, in a home ...

 
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Polenta with a simple sauce made with preserved summer tomatoes, topped with beets, shredded cabbage, fennel fronds and pickled peppers, with a baked egg, at Eat. Every restaurant has a thing – new school or ...