New: “Good Company: How the Viral Art Project Supports Artists Hurt by Covid-19”, Barron’s/Penta, July 2 2020
“Inspired by a get-out-the-vote poster project WideEye created around the 2018 election cycle, the trio concocted the Viral Art Project, a virtual gallery for pandemic-themed poster art sourced from artists.” More
New: “House Hunting on Anguilla: An Oceanfront Retreat for $985,000”, The New York Times, July 1 2020
“At the home’s front door, sightlines stretch through the house to the Caribbean Sea and islands beyond. ‘That’s a wow factor,’ said Elaine Hearn of Properties in Paradise, the listing agent. ‘You can see St. Martin in the distance, and St. Bart’s on a clear day.'” More
“Great Escapes: Illustrator Ben Katchor’s Five Favorite Jewish Comfort Foods”, Barron’s/Penta, May 29 2020
“For his latest project, Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow Ben Katchor switched tracks. Across 500 richly illustrated pages, The Dairy Restaurant builds a documentary portrait of an iconic slice of early-20th-century New York that’s nearly forgotten.” More
“Add this to your quarantine reading list: 500 pages on Jewish dairy restaurants and the ‘milkhideke’ personality”, Forward.com, May 27 2020
“While the book plumbs the history of Jewish dairy eateries — hundreds of which once dotted New York City — it also spends its 499 pages on kosher law, English pleasure gardens, 17th-century vegetarianism, Yiddish literature, German milk spas, Leo Tolstoy, proper udder-handling, fake meat, class conflicts, Yom Kippur riots, and the milkhedike personality”. More
“A Chat with Diane Kochilas”, Estiator, May 8 2020
“From her hit PBS series My Greek Table to award-winning cookbooks to popular cooking classes, Diane Kochilas has become a passionate global ambassador for Greek cuisine.” More
“Where We Are, and Where We’re Going”, Estiator, May 8 2020
“How are owners, chefs, and operators coping with the pandemic? Estiator spoke to six of them across the country to hear, firsthand, what it’s been like navigating the toughest crisis most of us have seen in our lifetimes.” More
“Backstreet’s Back”, Travel + Leisure, April 2020
“On Geary Avenue – an alley in northwestern Toronto’s Davenport neighborhood – a restaurant-and-retail row has taken root among factories and auto body shops.” More
“Jewish restaurants and community members band together to send food to COVID hospital workers”, Forward.com, April 1 2020
“Comfort food is Mile End Deli’s signature. Now, the Brooklyn-born, Montreal-flavored restaurant is delivering it, literally.” More
“‘We created beautiful environments in those restaurants. It’s hard to capture that in a paper bag.’”, Forward.com, March 26 2010
“For restaurants and the people behind them, COVID-19 has been a wrecking ball. How are they managing through the crisis? What changes have they instituted to survive?” More
“Chicago gets a vegan, traditional Jewish deli in ‘Sam & Gerties’”, Forward.com, March 11 2020
“Sam & Gertie’s looks like a classic Jewish deli. But there’s a twist.” More
