Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
A Moveable Feast (Private Air: Aug/Sep 2008)
A Moveable Feast: Years of cooking on the go leads to a rare treat indeed.
For an admittedly nervous flyer, Laurent Tourondel sure knows his way around a galley. Maybe it’s the year the chef behind the popular Manhattan eatery BLT Steak spent cooking up cabbage and potatoes in the French Navy. Or his later tour of duty in the early ’90s as the chef aboard the Honey Fitz, the legendary private yacht that once belonged to the Kennedys. Or maybe it’s just in his genes (although a certified Xanax flier himself, his father was a private pilot).
Early Birds (Dealmaker Apr/May 2008)
Early Birds: At 540 Park, power breakfasters always get the worm.
If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, the power breakfast could prove the most important meal of your career...particularly at 540 Park at the Loews Regency Hotel, the legendary Midtown eatery that gave birth to Manhattan’s morning-meeting tradition.
The Challenger (Private Air: Mar/Apr 2008)
The Challenger: Top Chef’s Casey Thompson
It was the crusher, the challenge that separated the woman from the boys. The final six contestants on Top Chef Season 3 were flown from their swank Miami pad to the Continental Airlines hangar at Newark airport, led to the comissary and given their assignment: wow the judges with a business-class meal on a Boeing 777. Read the rest of this entry »
Whatever Burkes (Private Air: Dec/Jan 2008)
Whatever Burkes: A master of cooking in high places shares one of his favorite recipes
Old New York (Dealmaker Dec 2007)
Old New York: In the wine cellar at 21, the history is as full-bodied as the burgundy
Though never technically a private establishment, New York’s 21 Club, which opened on New Year’s Eve 1930, has the rarefied feeling of an exclusive institution — a sense perhaps best exemplified by its “secret” wine cellar. Read the rest of this entry »
