GASTRONOMICA: The Journal of Food and Culture
Since 2001Gastronomica has been renewing the connection between sensual and intellectual nourishment by offering readers a taste of passionate inquiry through scholarship, humor, fiction, poetry, and...read more
Ithaca Beer Company
Voted the Best Craft Brewery in NY State in 2008 by Tap NY, the Ithaca Beer Company has been brewing great craft beers in upstate New York since 1998. Ithaca Beer Co. offers a wide variety of beers...read more
Pipeline Brands
PipeLine Brands is your premium brand builder on the streets, representing artisanal spirits, wines, and beers, including Don Q Rum, Luksusowa Vodka, Bison Grass, Montrecristo, U'Luvka Vodka, Q...read more
Tom Cat Bakery
Tom Cat Bakery began with one chef's passion for authenticity. They make authentic French, Italian and specialty artisan bread 24 hours a day and deliver it within hours of being baked. They've been...read more
Umami food and art festival, 2010
Umami was created in 2008 as a non-profit biennale event. It offers a meeting ground to people who use food as a medium and who present their audience with a multi-sensory experience in the dining...read more
USBG
With over 60 years of presence in the United States and International coverage in affiliation with the International Bartender's Association (IBA) in over 50 countries, the United States Bartenders'...read more
Marko Babsek
Marko was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia. Before moving to the U.S., he lived in Greece for three years – and while there, he fell in love with Greek wine. Once he arrived in this country, he...read more
Mark Bello
Mark Bello is a tour-de-force of creativity and energy, sharing his knowledge and love of pizza with unpretentious ease. Born in NYC and raised on the famous thin crust pizzas indigenous to his NY...read more
Tom Briggs
Tom Briggs had his first sip of beer, from a cold can of Schlitz, when he was four years old (indeed, he remembers) and swore to his uncle he would never drink the stuff again. 32 years later, Tom is...read more
Murray's Cheese
Established in 1940, Murray's is the oldest cheese shop in New York City. Although we've moved 3 times since then, we're still a stone's throw away from the original location in Greenwich Village. ...read more
Fred Dexheimer, MS
Master Sommelier Fred Dexheimer is one of the wine and beverage industry’s leading professionals. In 2000 Dexheimer began his career in wine by assisting in the wine cellar of the NY Times four...read more
Elayne Duke
Elayne Duke is a mixologist and spirits ambassador for Diageo (the world's leading premium drinks business with brands across spirits, wines, and beer categories). She was most recently honored...read more
Andrew Fisher
Andy Fisher has been President of the family business Astor Wines & Spirits for over 30 years. He and his father - a legendary icon in the industry - purchased Astor Center in 1983, and last year...read more
Alexandre Gabriel
Alexandre Gabriel was born in southern Burgundy, near the medieval town of Cluny in France. Weekends in his youth were spent working on the family farm and that is where Alexandre’s great love of...read more
Charles Hardwick
Charles Hardwick began his bartending career at Acme Bar & Grill, where he developed his skills not only in mixing drinks but in true hospitality. In later years, Charles continued to hone these...read more
Julia Jaksic
Julia Jaksic has always had a fascination with food, from cultural traditions to its role in history, At the same time, she firmly believes food should be a simple pleasure, one best enjoyed without...read more
Steven Kasher
Steven Kasher is a gallery owner, writer, curator, and publisher. His gallery specializes in social/historical/artistic photography, especially of the 1950s-1980s, and represents contemporary...read more
Sarah Klein
Klein is interested in the contrast between the domestic world and the public world, and in her videos, drawings, and performances she explores the conducts and codes that define these two realms....read more
Kimberly Koharki
After graduating from The Culinary Institute of America, Kimberly moved to New York City to work with celebrated Sommeliers in Manhattan restaurants such as Cafe Gray and Alto. She continued her...read more
Michael Krondl
Michael Krondl is a chef, cooking teacher and food writer. He has authored several books, most recently The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice, praised by the...read more
Robert Kushner
Kushner's work has been exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Kushner was the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum...read more
David Lombardo
“Some of the most memorable moments of my life have been sitting around a table, enjoying food and wine,” says David Lombardo, Wine and Beverage Director for Anvil NY. "Nothing provides a sense of...read more
Nora Maynard
Nora Maynard is the cocktails and spirits columnist for Apartment Therapy Media’s The Kitchn (www.thekitchn.com), and previously covered food and drink in film in her popular weekly column, “The...read more
James Moreland
A premiere mixologist whose inspired cocktails have graced the front pages of the The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, James Moreland is one of this generation’s leading spirits authorities. ...read more
Marnie Old
Marnie Old is one of the country’s leading wine personalities, known for her common-sense approach, energetic performance style and incisive insights. An articulate and passionate speaker, she is...read more
Emily Peterson
Culinary educator Emily Peterson combined her love of cooking with a Master's in Teaching and walked away from a career in educational administration, returning to her roots in the...read more
Nicole Peyrafitte
Nicole Peyrafitte's performances include voice, paintings, videos, texts, movements and cooking. Learn more at her website, www.nicolepeyrafitte.comread more
Jonathan Pogash
Jonathan Pogash is currently a mixologist and consultant for bars, restaurants and spirit companies. Trained by such cocktail luminaries as Gary Regan and Albert Trummer, Jonathan moved up in the...read more
Carl Raymond
Carl Raymond’s culinary passions began years ago growing up on the coast of Maine and combine his strong New England roots with a fascination with world cuisine. After spending a year living and...read more
Robin Robinson
Robin Robinson is a lifelong Scotch whisky and American whiskey aficionado, evangelist, promulgator and propagandist. His core philosophy entails two principles: removing the stain of exclusivity of...read more
Alain Royer
Alain Royer, 6th generation of a Cognac family, born in Bordeaux, raised in Cognac educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, MA in English and MBA (HEC-ISA) has been involved all his life in the making and...read more
Louisa Shafia
LOUISA SHAFIA is the founder of Lucid Food, an eco-friendly fine catering company based in New York City. She is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute and has worked at noteworthy restaurants...read more
Susan Spungen
Susan Spungen is a food stylist, recipe developer, editor and author. A founding food editor of Martha Stewart Living, she created the magazine’s test kitchen and food department. The author or...read more
Timothy Sullivan
Timothy Sullivan is proud to be a "Saké Samurai". He was awarded the title in 2007 by the Japan Saké Brewer's Association in recognition of his efforts to promote saké outside of Japan. Now a saké...read more
James Christopher Tracy
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area to parents who owned a small vineyard, collected wine and exposed their children to great food, James Christopher Tracy seemed destined to become a...read more
Dave Wondrich
David Wondrich is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on cocktails and their history. "A living iPod of drink lore and recipes", as the New York Times has labeled him, Dr....read more
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