There are few chefs who have the international name recognition that Yotam Ottolenghi does. In addition to being the very busy proprietor of four gourmet delis and one formal restaurant, the Israeli-born, London-based chef is a reliable presence in kitchens around the world thanks to cookbooks including Ottolenghi, Plenty and ... More

The Fat Radish co-owners Ben Towill and Phil Winser (who are both self-taught cooks) have created a cookbook, The Fat Radish Kitchen Diaries, comprised of one hundred fan-favorite recipes from their uncomplicated, slightly British and constantly evolving menu. Among the list of good eats are recipes for carrot and avocado ... More

What’s better than a cookbook of recipes and personal stories from famed chefs like Marcus Samuelsson, David Chang and Wolfgang Puck? How about if buying that cookbook helped to provide children around the world with health care, clean water, nutrition and more. Hilary Gumbel has been a consultant and volunteer for ... More

Jamie Bissonnette’s not your average chef, so it’s not too surprising that his first cookbook, The Charcuterie Cookbook: Exceptional Cured Meats to Make and Serve at Home, isn’t so run of the mill either. What Bissonnette, the peripatetic chef at Toro (New York and Boston) and Coppa (Boston), is offering readers ... More

Beginning in the 1950s, Igor Cassini was the world’s most powerful society columnist in a time when society mattered. Read by over 20 million people, Cassini not only coined the phrase “jet set,” but also embodied its glamour and mobility. He wasn’t some ink-stained outsider looking in; he was a ... More

Throughout the year, we yearn for a time when we can take a step back and immerse ourselves into a simpler, albeit sometimes more exclusive, world. Nowhere is this urge more apparent than in The Big Book of the Hamptons, a 300-page tome dedicated to those much-ballyhooed hamlets to the east ... More

Throughout the year, we yearn for a time when we can take a step back and immerse ourselves into a simpler, albeit sometimes more exclusive, world. Nowhere is this urge more apparent than in The Big Book of the Hamptons, a 300-page tome dedicated to those much-ballyhooed hamlets to the east ... More

Between running The Bowery, Jane, Maritime, Marlton and Chelsea Hotels, it's amazing Sean MacPherson has time to sleep—let alone surf and ride a motorcycle. But for this busy hotelier, his signature board and bike are among the most ... More

As Diane von Furstenberg's private chef, Jane Coxwell makes her living engaged in two activities that many of us would do for free: cook and travel. Since 2009, she has spent most of the year on Eos, the luxury yacht owned ... More

People turn to veganism for a number of reasons, but not usually because it's particularly easy—until Mark Bittman wrote a book about doing it part-time. The New York Times food columnist dodged a health-threatening bullet ... More