Cover Feature

FLEXIBILITY / THE KEY TO SHOPPING AND HAPPY DINING WHILE SHELTERED-IN-PLACE

By Larry Levine – If you are reading this food magazine, it’s a good bet you don’t need someone to teach you how to shop for groceries. Good chance you

On the Inside

A TALE OF TWO MARKETS / Shopping under the cloud of a pandemic

By Larry Levine – Grocery shopping today is not a question of “what do I need.” It’s as much a matter of “what do they have.” This was driven home

MELISSE / a story of the life-cycle of a Michelin-starred restaurant

By Larry Levine – Five hours before the opening of Josiah Citrin’s newly re-christened restaurant, Citrin, in the Santa Monica CA space in which he previously operated the Michelin-starred Melisse,

A BAGEL, A BOWL OF CHILI AND A CULTURAL APPROPRIATION DEBATE

By Larry Levine – I came across an old article from the Washington Post the other day about a dust-up in Minneapolis concerning an accusation of cultural appropriation of Chinese

I APOLOGIZE IF MY CIGARETTES RUINED YOUR MEALS / a brief history of smoking in restaurants

By Larry Levine – I want to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone whose meals I diminished by smoking at the dinner table in a restaurant. That includes not

MUSSO AND FRANK GRILL TURNS 100 / a Hollywood landmark prepares to celebrate

By Larry Levine – It’s in the middle of a block in the heart of Hollywood California. Thousands of people walk by every day. Mostly they are tourists. They are

WE PASSED THIS WAY BEFORE / a travel and food memoir

By Larry Levine – BROOKLYN, JULY 2019 – It’s the hot dog. It’s the grill. It’s the legend, the lore and the location. It’s all these and more. “It” is

A FRUITLESS QUEST FOR A TASTY BERRY

By Larry Levine – It’s that time of year when markets brim with flats of bright red strawberries and tempt us with the sight and intoxicating aroma of sweetness. I

BOOK REVIEW / Ruth Reichl’s “Save Me the Plums”

By Larry Levine – “Save Me the Plums” is Ruth Reichl at her best. The stories she tells of her time as editor-in-chief of the late Gourmet magazine are frank