On a special episode of my podcast Life Behind Bars David Wondrich and I are joined by Dale DeGroff & Julie Reiner to remember and celebrate the life of the one-and-only gary regan. And we, of course, enjoy some finger-stirred Negronis! thedailybeast.com/remembering-le…

I know there's a huge level-of-fame difference in winners of "The Great British Baking Show" versus the American version, but here's why you should know Brother Andrew Corriente's name wapo.st/2vTl5Ga?tid=ss…

This has neither the juicy access nor the new insight to mitigate its slavish and tired devotion to Ineffable Male Culinary Genius which just needs to ... Die out as the subject of tweets let alone a long profile that boils down to “Hagiography! Hooray!” vanityfair.com/style/2020/02/…

The “one bad meal means a restaurant is bad” argument ignores the inverse, which is that one great meal does not mean a restaurant is all good. Three visits is as much about digging for flaws as it is searching for redemption.

Crossing the border bi-weekly with 50-kilo sacks of a white, powdery substance is not for the faint of heart, but it’s all for the love of flour tortillas. Read all about the extreme lengths that @sonoratown goes through on my latest for TASTE. tastecooking.com/flour-tortilla…

Had my first pot likker martini last night. The olive was stuffed with a bit of smoked turkey. It was good. 🍸 🦃

Coronavirus concerns have hit Chinatowns hard. In NYC, business has dropped between 40 and 80 percent. Some shuttered. ⁦Grace Young⁩ implores us to support all Chinatowns and shares her favorite NYC spots Food & Wine⁩. foodandwine.com/travel/restaur…

💪 Wilson Tang bonappetit.com/story/wilson-t…

This is a huge story and is a key to understanding what’s been been driving the US (lack of) response. President consistently lashes out any time an official dares put public health considerations ahead of low-cases/low-risk narrative.

Many aspects of American food and drink have rather different histories than we’ve been content to believe. An excellent Sunday read by the redoubtable David Wondrich. Any who come to scoff shall remain to pray. Plant your garden mint now, people.

Cooking in NY in the ‘90s, it was clear to me that Gray Kunz had changed the culture. Following the news of his death, I tried to unpack how that came to happen, exactly, with input from ruthreichl, Peter Kaminsky, and Rocco DiSpirito, among others. grubstreet.com/2020/03/gray-k…

We're thrilled that the extraordinary Jessica Harris - author, journalist, culinary expert, historian and our friend - has been named the recipient of the 2020 James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations Jessica! jamesbeard.org/blog/the-2020-…

A dive bar I love has lost its guiding light and without Jimmy Glenn this corner of Times Square will be a little less bright from now on. Pour one out for him tonight.

Roots of the Sazerac, from the St. Louis Globe, November 17, 1889 (so what's a little Bénédictine among friends?):

No such thing as a “low skill worker.”