The Green Fairy

When water is added, the clear absinthe turns a cloudy, opal green—this is known as the “absinthe louche,” or releasing “the green fairy.”

Wanna Take This Outside?

Restaurant dining rooms are nice and all, but let’s face it—on fine summer days, we don’t need the room in the room with a view.

Joshua Prince

Geoff Feder’s kitchen tools begin as stylized watercolors that reveal lessons he learned in the world of fine art.

Cutting Edge

Geoff Feder’s kitchen tools begin as stylized watercolors that reveal lessons he learned in the world of fine art.

Dumpster Dining: Trash is Trending

In Rochester, you’ll find White Hots—pale, unsmoked, and uncured sausage of beef, pork, and veal, served griddled—and that town’s infamous Garbage Plate.

woman camping on governors island overlooking the nyc skyline

Get Out of Town!

If you have a nagging suspicion that you didn’t quite achieve Maximum Summer 2022, don’t worry – there’s still time to get its last licks.