Each year Steve Turner, who runs Trinity Church's Food Pantry, has a note card made from a parishioner's photograph to benefit the pantry, which has been serving the CWE for over 30 years. It was timely, and as it turns out quite touching, that Steve asked textile artist Marjorie Hoeltzel, who volunteered at the Food…
Category: Food and Drink
Lunch/Book Signing with NY Chef Gabrielle Hamilton
One of my favorite books of 2011 was Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, a food memoir written by Gabrielle Hamilton (second from right). When publicity first surfaced that Gabrielle was coming to town for Sauce Magazine's Celebrity Chef Series (presented in partnership with Left Bank Books), my friend Mary…
Meet Pi’s Executive Chef Steve Caravelli
I stopped in to see Pi's Executive Chef Steve Caravelli (above) on Friday morning to get the lowdown on the posters in the restaurant's windows plugging "Meatless Mondays" (see below). I assumed the push at Pi was solely to encourage healthier eating ("Meatless Mondays" has its own wikipedia entry: look here), but there is more…