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Culinary Intelligence—An Emerging Trend?

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: May 3, 2012

Crispy suckling pig from Maialino NYC/Photo by Ellen Silverman

I spent a couple days in New York last week meeting with two very good publishers, one of whom, a veteran and very smart editor, asked whether I'd thought about how busy people can actually integrate real cooking and real food into their daily lives. He wasn't talking about the crispy pig I had at Maialino hours later. That, as you can see, is real food and real good. (Two standbys for me in NYC, where I go just to feel good, because NYC makes me all jittery and my eyes go out of sync like that Mad-eye guy in Harry Potter but not in a useful way: Bar Boulud and any one of Danny Meyer's restaurants. It's not just the food, ...

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New York City Restaurants: The Craft of Service

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: December 8, 2010

Photo by Donna

Donna talked me into a little pre-holiday NYC splurge with Claudia and Michael (Chef Pardus if you've read Making of a Chef) this past weekend and we truly indulged, did nothing but eat and drink and nap for 24 hours, and oh man did I learn something from three of the city's best restaurateurs. Our room was not ready when we got in, so Donna and I strolled over to Beacon where wood roasted oysters were the perfect accompaniment to a Hendricks martini.  The city air was cold and fresh, and the holiday lights made the dark afternoon feel festive and hopeful. Our first dinner was at Minetta Tavern, a place I've wanted to go to for months, being a huge huge fan of Keith McNally restaurants, Balthazar ...

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Restaurant Workers, Restaurant Patrons—
Disconnect Remains

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: May 12, 2010

Photo by Donna

For all the interest in food, chefs, and restaurants, the popularity of "Top Chef" and other shows depicting professional restaurant work, most poeple still have no clear conception of the unique, bizarre, intense, exhalted, depraved, mysterious human stew that restaurants are. Yesterday, New York Times writer Ron Lieber blogged about being kicked out of Marc Forgione's New York City restaurant.  Disturbed by the chef's protracted yelling at a member of the staff, he marched back to the kitchen to tell the chef what for. The upshot was that Mr. Lieber was asked to leave. (It's a good post, read it.) Mr. Lieber asked for comment on the blog. Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton called attention to it on Twitter, to which I gave a loud guffaw at ...

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