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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 "Victory Gardens"

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A victory garden in Los Angeles

Photo: Ricardo DeAratanha for the Los Angeles Times

Victory Gardens

It’s really encouraging to read stories like this. Whether propelled by philosophical or economic reasons victory gardens are on the rise, reports the LA Times. Though difficult in… read more »

Postopolis at The Standard in LA

Photo: Postopolis

Postopolis at The Standard LA

New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture in association with ForYourArt will host a five day event “themed around landscape and the built environment.” Postopolis will… read more »

Agnes Denes

Victory gardens or edible estates have received quite a bit of attention in the last couple of years, with the culminating awareness in food and environmental issues. But… 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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