Ina Yalof takes us on an insider’s journey into New York’s pulsating food scene alongside the men and women who call it home: Dominique Ansel declares what great good fortune led him to make the first cronut; Lenny Berk explains why Woody Allen’s mother would allow only him to slice her lox at Zabar’s; Ghaya Oliveira, who came to New York as a young Tunisian stockbroker, opens up about her hardscrabble yet swift trajectory from dishwasher to executive pastry chef at Daniel; Restaurateur Eddie Schoenfeld describes his evolution from a Nice Jewish Boy from Brooklyn to New York’s indisputable Chinese food maven.
From old-schoolers such as David Fox, third-generation owner of Fox’s U‑bet syrup, and the outspoken Upper West Side butcher “Schatzie” to new-kids-on-the-block including Patrick Collins, sous chef at The Dutch and Brooklyn artisan Lauren Clark of Sucre Mort Pralines, Food and the City is a fascinating oral history with an unforgettable gallery of New Yorkers who embody the heart and soul of a culinary metropolis.
Nonfiction
Food and the City
- From the Publisher
May 3, 2016
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