Our Special Events division is known for cocktail receptions with beautiful views over the Hudson, seasonal menus with your favorite finger foods and crowd-pleasing courses, and hands-on cooking...
The coming season brings the expansion of our time-tested recreational program, intimate conversations with pioneering chefs and the very first Health-Supportive Culinary Arts class on the West Coast...
I have friends who would happily consume a pill with the day's nutrients and eliminate that arduous process of chewing altogether if they could. Anything, really, to avoid standing in lines spanning...
Balsamic isn’t an ingredient that you’d typically find in Asian cooking, but I like to play around with ingredients to create unexpected flavor combinations. I chose to use it for flavor in two places...
Preparing Seasonal Produce Root vegetables are one of those things that scream winter to me. If you’ve ever gone to the farmers market in the winter, you can’t find anything but root vegetables. Not a...
NGI chef instructors and students cooked at the school's 40th anniversary event. Jay Astafa opened Long Island's first entirely vegan restaurant, 3 Brothers Vegan Cafe, and founded a plant-based...
There is one dish that I have been using for years that I didn’t realize was re-using potential waste: my lobster Bolognese. This is a very popular dish I served at my previous restaurant, Telepan,...
This is a great make-ahead recipe so that if you have company, you are not trapped at the stove. I either set it up as a self-serve item with a pot of rice, where guests can help themselves to a cup...
One way to avoid that unappealing aroma is using Chef Sands’ no-fail recipe. “The key thing about this recipe is that because of the mustard, the flavors all meld together very well,” he says. “It’s...
The first book, “ Korean Home Cooking: Classic & Modern Recipes ” is from Chef Sohui Kim (Culinary/Management, ‘02) who owns The Good Fork and Insa with her husband, Ben, in Brooklyn. Sohui told me...
The work of chopping — and the primary reason I think my roommate often chooses an elaborate, produce-heavy dish — provides a sense of focus and clarity, a kind of meditative state found in committing...