Author Archives: peter.hobbs

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It all started with cassoulet. Sung Park, chef and owner of Williamsburg’s tiny Café Petit, grew up in Seoul. He cultivated his cooking skills working as chef in one of his family’s restaurants. ...

 
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Omer Shemesh and Alexandra Costin of Newtown, an oasis offering a selection of scratch-made vegetarian sandwiches, salads and soups amid the manufacturing sites and artist's studios of industrial East Williamsburg. To those who ...

 
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Sutheera Denprapa serves her sweet 'sushi' at SkyIce. Sutheera Denprapa, owner and chef at Park Slope’s SkyIce, came to Brooklyn from her native Bangkok to study graphic design at Pratt. In a ...

 
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New York is known across the planet as the city of relentless reinvention. The skyline reaches ever higher into the clouds; time warps neighborhoods like  funhouse mirrors as wave after wave of newcomers erode and ...

 
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One day not too long ago, the team behind Egg, the Williamsburg breakfast and lunch spot known for sourcing produce from its very own farm upstate and for its simple-but-refined Southern fare, decided to open ...

 
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Cheryl Rogowski grows potatoes and many other vegetables at her farm in the black dirt region of upstate New York. Many chefs say her produce is notably rich in flavor. We visited Cheryl at the ...

 
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It seems the planets have aligned for SCRATCHbread. After garnering a cult following at Brooklyn Flea for his decadently good focaccia and brownies, founder Matthew Tilden left the market a couple of years ago and ...

 
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Whirlybird in Williamsburg made headlines for bringing the breakfast taco – a massive improvement on the heretofore NYC breakfast standard of bacon, egg and cheese on a roll – from its native Austin, Texas to ...

 
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In the pantheon of New York City cuisine, the Italian sub holds its own alcove of honor alongside others like the hot dog, the slice and the bagel. East Williamsburg’s Graham Avenue Meats has ...

 
Gabe the Fish Babe

For this episode of Field to Fork, we travel north to Point Judith, Rhode Island, to fish for Jonah crab with dayboat captain Don Deberardino and to meet Gabe Stommel, a fish dealer on a ...

 
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Sebastian Aubert first came to New York from his native Guadeloupe in search of rare funk, soul, and jazz records to take home to fuel his burgeoning career as a DJ. He never left. Today, ...

 
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At Mimi’s Hummus in Ditmas Park, Mimi Kitani has developed a cult following for her take on Middle Eastern fare. She does it Israeli-style, keeping her cooking simple and light, with an emphasis on ...

 
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Andres Valbuena, a native of Caracas, Venezuela, spent a decade cooking at the highest end – three Michelin star places like Mugaritz in Spain, and The French Laundry and Meadowood in California. A few years ...

 
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Ilene Rosen and Sarah Dima opened 606 R&D near their homes at Prospect Heights after years of cooking (in Ilene's case) and general managing (in Sarah's) at City Bakery. ...

 
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Today we stop in at Roebling Tea Room, where chef Dennis Spina, who started cooking here after ditching a previous career spent running a heavy metal record label, has spent the last eight years chasing ...