God forbid that Max and Eli Sussman, the pride of Brooklyn, ever betray their hipster roots by doing such WASPy things as equestrian activities and gossiping with ladies over tea.
We managed to chat with Googa vet Justin Warner, whose Bed-Stuy eatery Do or Dine is back at the festival for its second year, serving up its infamous foie gras jelly doughnut. Check out our Q&A with him below to find out how this year's festival is measuring up to last year's notorious shitshow.
After a long day at the office stringing words together in varying degrees of coherence, the last thing we want to do is keep communicating in complete sentences. Replacing the grunts and gestures we rely on to get dinner on the table, is Picture Cook, a tome that turns the traditional cookbook on its head; it offers illustrated recipes rather than wordy instructions.
The careers of many of today’s food personalities were launched off the wings of a food truck (Roy Choi and Doug Quint, to name a few). But what happens when it goes the other way around? What happens when a famous person decides to hop in a truck, take to the streets, and fling tacos to the people?
Sometimes the results are good. Sometimes the results are weird. Sometimes they disappear into the night like a Jewish prophet. But when celebrity chefs step out of the kitchen, you know that you’re not going to get your normal, quirky, moustache-wearing server-serviced food truck — and that can be a good thing.
(Note: Rocco DiSpirito’sNow Eat This is not on this list, because it does not qualify as “Best” at anything.)