Earlier this month I stopped by Coffee Project, a local café chain I’ve loved since it ever so conveniently opened its first location across the street from my East Village apartment. I’ve since moved to Brooklyn, and it’s since opened three more outposts, including the Long Island City roastery and training campus where they taught … Read more
“Chinatown was my home away from home,” Justin McKibben tells me. He’s the founder of Send Chinatown Love, an organization that provides support to small businesses in Manhattan’s Chinatown. “It was the only place I could get a meal that felt like a home-cooked meal in a city that can be very isolating.” McKibben started … Read more
All around the internet, food is being given the realist era treatment: a cinnamon bun oozes with icing, a chocolate chip cookie floats on a lavender background, and a box of Cheez-Its winks coquettishly atop a blue tapestry. While paintings of food are as old as time, these modern riffs depict snacks that wouldn’t hit … Read more
Sara Sarasohn has been living in the same Berkeley home for 20 years, rarely meeting any of her neighbors. That all changed about a month ago when the journalist and podcast editor signed up for the Baking Notification Project. Now she sits in the sun on the porch of her 100-year-old bungalow, waiting for 25 … Read more