


Breads Bakery
The myth of overnight success implores us to ignore all the secret toiling and struggles of our suddenly favorite celebrities. Perhaps, as a mode of marketing and myth-making, wisely so. Consider Breads Bakery. Viewed within the frame of overnight success,...
Fun Home
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic By: Alison Bechdel Published: 2006 Genre: Graphic Novel/Memoir An autobiogrpahic graphic novel Fun Home, by American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, chronicles the author’s life growing up in rural Pennsylvania. The novel focuses in on...
Pernil
Perinl is a Puerto Rican slow-roasted marinated pork shoulder. It’s traditionally served at Christmas paired with arroz con gandules (rice with pigeon peas). The shoulder is roasted whole with sofrito, salt, peppers, and sometimes other spices. After being...
Make Sandwich
Our relationship with bowl restaurants strains the limits of hypocrisy. Sure, members of the VC staff routinely indulge in all of the zillion mini-trough spots around Union Square. But the innovation wore off a very, very long time ago and we are ALL IN on...