Q&A with Dirt Candy’s Amanda Cohen & James Beard Foundation’s Susan Ungaro
Susan Ungaro While women have made inroads in culinary education, professional kitchens and restaurants in recent years, the ratio of women to men...
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Guitar Mash returns to City Winery on Dec. 11; Downtown talks with its performers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bn5h2kcEVM Downtown had the pleasure of interviewing Guitar Mash's musical director Mark Stewart to preview last year's...
For the Love Of Seasonal Vegetables and Farmers Markets
Growing up on a vegetable farm, what I ate for dinner was directly based on what page the calendar was turned to. As March emerged from the heavy gloom of...
Smashing Greens with the “Vegan Beast”
With more athletes, politicians, actors and everyday folks embracing plant-based diets, being a vegan is no longer such a mysterious thing. But can you...
Chef Carlo Cracco Talks Italian Cuisine, Upcoming Identitá Golose New York
Photo eataly.com The best of the best in Italian cuisine will reunite in NYC at the end of this month. That's right, Identitá Golose New York is back for...
Actor Steve Schirripa Comes To Battery Park
Steve Schirripa, is known by many as the loyal Italian mob man Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri in HBO’s The Sopranos. However in reality, Schirripa connects...