| TED KRUCKEL 11.06.09 4:33 PM |
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Gossip Girls in Chanel at Four Seasons and David Rockwell's High-Tech Taste on Paper Plates
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 | Chanel's Fete d'Hiver at the Four Seasons Restaurant to benefit The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Photo: Bill Farrell-Patrick McMullan |
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FROM NEW YORK
There are so many reasons why I’ve never seen an episode of Gossip Girl.
For starters, I’m not really sure what channel is the CW, and besides, doesn’t CW make you think of country music? By the time New York magazine was calling Gossip Girl “Best. Show. Ever.” I decided I was too late to the party. Couldn’t I just hold my breath for a few years till it faded away? How stupid.
Because as with the last cult hit show in the New York area, The Sopranos, Gossip Girl’s far-flung cast is relentless in pursuit of publicity and as a result, I see one or two of them at every single party I go to, and it is always a big deal, despite the fact that they all seem so tiny in person.
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The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Chanel, David Rockwell, New York Magazine |
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| TED KRUCKEL 10.06.09 4:59 PM |
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As Gourmet Bites the Dust, October Is Food Month in New York
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 | Jacques Pépin at New York magazine's Culinary Experience
Photo: Larry Busacca |
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FROM NEW YORK
It’s getting hot in here and the pressure is mounting. I’m in the kitchen with Jacques Pépin and about 20 students who are racing against the clock to complete their stuffed ballotines of chicken. Pépin is perspiring and working furiously as he goes from one student to the next, showing each the main steps that he demonstrated twice onscreen already.
It is 4:15 on a Saturday afternoon at the French Culinary Institute, and I’m sitting in on a New York magazine-sponsored deluxe weekend of instructional cooking, the New York Culinary Experience, with some of the world’s leading chefs. In addition to Monsieur Pépin, fellow F.C.I. deans André Soltner (formerly of Lutèce) and Alain Sailhac (formerly of the 21 Club) are sauntering around the room, assisted by six sous chefs, by my count. In two days, the announcement that Gourmet is closing will shock this community, but today we are all blissfully enjoying Food Month.
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New York Magazine, Gourmet magazine, Bon Appétit, French Culinary Institute |
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| EVENT REPORT 02.25.08 1:54 PM |
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Best Picture Nominees Inspire Menus at New York Oscar Parties
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 | The academy's themed meal
Photo: Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
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FROM NEW YORK
Despite the last-minute scramble to pull together the events thanks to the uncertainty surrounding the Los Angeles award show, both New York magazine and the New York chapter of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted their annual Oscar viewing parties last night. (Entertainment Weekly, however, canceled its annual bash at Elaine's.) While the decor at both is always fairly simple, the events made some subtle references to the Best Picture nominees through food and drinks.
Up at the Carlyle, the Academy served a five-course meal created by the hotel's executive chef, James Sakatos, to reference the five nominated films. The menu included a black-ink risotto with black trumpet mushrooms, braised cuttlefish, and blood-orange foam to suggest There Will Be Blood's oil wells and a dry-aged New York strip steak and braised short rib with heirloom carrots and creamy grits in Bordelaise jus representing the Texas setting from No Country for Old Men. The Academy's New York program director, Patrick Harrison, planned the event, which drew Jerry Stiller, Celia Weston, and Erica Jong.
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, New York Magazine, Award Season, Oscars |
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| NEWS 11.09.07 4:44 PM |
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Just About Everybody Hates Atlantic Party With V.I.P.s on Stage
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FROM NEW YORK
Upon hearing about The Atlantic Monthly's plan to hold its 150th anniversary party for a group of V.I.P.s on stage at an NYU auditorium, with regular folks watching in the audience, you may have thought, How can that possibly go well? Now the first reports from last night's party are in, and they're not good—from either side of the stage/audience divide.
On his blog, James Marcus, who bills himself as a "writer, translator, critic, and editor" (he's been published in The Atlantic), called the anniversary "surely one of the most dispiriting parties I've ever attended." Describing his time in the audience, he wrote, "For about two minutes, this scenario had a certain Pirandellian charm. That quickly evaporated."
P.J. O'Rourke, who served as the M.C. of a discussion during part of the evening, told the guests who weren't offered any free drinks, "Us having a party up here, while you watch it from down there, is stupid."
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Atlantic Monthly, Atlantic Media, New York Observer, New York Magazine, Gawker |
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