FEATURES

Battersby Brooklyn

By Sarah Williams
Left: Chef Walker Stern Right: Chef Joseph Ogrodnek

Photo: Tuukka Koski

At Battersby, it’s all personal. Chef-owners Walker Stern and Joseph Ogrodnek have a long-standing friendship that’s taken them through culinary school to stints at some of the city’s best restaurants.

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Chuck Miller

By Caroline Hwang
Chuck Miller with his wife Jeanette Miller

Photo: Michael A. Muller

The Meatpacking District in New York is full of beautiful Manhattanites, working professionals, and stylish tourists who are staying at the nearby Gansevoort Hotel and the Standard. So when you…

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Journal: Clift San Francisco

By Michael Muller
Frontside view of the Clift from Geary Street

Photo: Michael A. Muller

On a recent trip to San Francisco, the Clift hotel was the central figure and home base on a quick three-day stay during the onset of autumn in…

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RESULTS FOR "Packaging"

Retail

Photo: Courtesy of Kiosk

Kiosk

When you’re traveling abroad, it’s often the unique charm and earnestness of everyday products and packaging that can catch your attention—something that high design can’t always offer. Kiosk curates and… read more »

Features

House Industries founder Andy Cruz at his home office.

Photo: Rose Callahan

House Rules

Ogling the archives at the House Industries studio in pastoral Delaware can only be likened to digging through the crates of a great record collector. All sorts of gems are… read more »

Left: Jill Donenfeld Right: Whiskey Prawn Skewers w/Tomato Curry

Photo: Left: Jill Donenfeld Right: Melissa Ricketts

Life of a Personal Chef

It sounds like an idyllic life—cooking inventive meals in private homes, working flexible hours, spending your days shopping at the greenmarket, and getting paid to do it all. read more »

Blog

Chocolate Research Facility packaging designed by Asylum

Photo: Staff

Boxed and Labelled

Packaging surrounds us and is something that we all constantly interact with, whether it’s peeling a banana, popping the top on a can of Coke, or unsheathing a bottle of… read more »

Photo: The Original MOONSHINE

Original Moonshine Box

Sometimes a package comes across our desk that needs to be shared. Such is the case with The Original MOONSHINE box, which actually isn’t a box at all…. read more »

Left: An LTR with a crate Right: Ampersand LTR

Photo: House Industries

House LTR

Art and collectible Herman Miller pieces are few and far between. They have their Select program but only one product is released a year. So it’s particularly special when another… read more »

TOURS

The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

Photo: Staff

From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…

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The Tenenbaums

By Siobhan Vivian

Photo: Staff

The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…

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