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This article appears in Spring 2021: Issue No. 61 of Edible Brooklyn. Makiko Harada, Salt Savant “I see salt as a form of art, a form of creative expression,” says Makiko Harada, who opened Glamsalt (based in the Hudson Valley) in 2012. Harada moved from Tokyo to the United States for high school and stayed, studying at Columbia University and the Pratt Institute. In Japan, her family history is steeped in food and creativity—Harada’s grandfather supplied trout to the emperor of Japan and her grandmother was an indigo master, working with textiles. With charm and a critical eye for de...

New York just got a few new Michelin star restaurants.  On Thursday, Michelin released its 2021 New York restaurant guide, which awarded 68 eateries with one, two or three stars. Of those 68, seven restaurants are new to the list, each receiving one Michelin Star. The new eateries include Tsukimi, Rezdôra, Jua, Don Angie, Kochi, Francie and Vestry.  Those seven restaurants join 42 other one-star restaurants in the New York Michelin Guide.  New York also has 14 two-star restaurants and only 5 one-star restaurants, which were all on last year’s list.  The five three-star restaurants incl...

The island is idyllic. As a workplace, it's toxic 13 minutes to read By: Julia Moskin Globe-trotting diners flock to the Willows Inn's serene Northwest setting. But former employees say faked ingredients, sexual harassment and an abusive kitchen are the real story. The chef Blaine Wetzel first came to Lummi, a tiny island near the San Juan archipelago of Washington state, in 2010. At age 24, he was fresh off a two-year stint at the vaunted Copenhagen restaurant Noma. He could have found a job in any kitchen in the world. Instead, he'd answered an ad on Craigslist, posted by ...

April 27, 2021Updated 11:38 a.m. ET The chef Blaine Wetzel first came to Lummi, a tiny island in the San Juan archipelago of Washington State, in 2010. At age 24, he was fresh off a two-year stint at the vaunted Copenhagen restaurant Noma. He could have found a job in any kitchen in the world. Instead, he’d answered an ad on Craigslist, posted by a chicken farmer who owned a century-old inn on Lummi Island, 100 miles north of Seattle and reachable only by ferry. Sight unseen, Mr. Wetzel had fallen for the island’s ravishing isolation — fewer than 1,000 people live there full-ti...

Food-Related Gift Ideas for the Moms in Your Life From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week Share this story New York Times podcast The Dailypublished an episode all about the struggles of pandemic parenting, including recordings from the parenting section’s open phone line where they asked readers to share what it’s really been like to raise children over this last year. It’s ... a lot, and I 100 percent wept as I listened to it at 4:30 am the other day (when I woke up for the day because my kid wouldn’t go back to sleep).