Character Study: The Lox Sherpa of Russ & Daughters. By Corey Kilgannon, The New York Times. When Hurricane Sandy threatened to cut power to Russ & Daughters, the popular lox purveyor on Houston Street, Chhapte Sherpa, an assistant manager there, was a first responder in saving the salmon. Each day he found ways to make [...]

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“Lost, Then Found: New York Classics” by Mimi Sheraton New York Times Dining section Author Mimi Sheraton writes of her “search for true New York classics,” and praises the mini bagels at Russ & Daughters. “BAGELS:   I remember them well. Say, about three and a half inches across with a good wide center hole; [...]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/dining/vinegar-cocktails-are-making-the-rounds.html

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“Traditional Meal Ending Holy Days Becomes an Event” The New York Times: October 1, 2011 By Mark Oppenheimer Photos by Casey Kelbaugh “In recent years, breaking the fast after Yom Kippur has become part of the Jewish social calendar,” says The New York Times in a National story that features Josh Russ Tupper and some [...]

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Sloane Crosley started off a new web Op-Ed column (“Townies, a series about life in New York written by the novelists, journalists and essayists who live there, appears every Thursday. October’s columnist is Sloane Crosley, the author of How Did You Get This Number.”) on The New York Times‘ “Opinionator” page with “New York Is [...]

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With cold season well underway, we all know someone who is under the weather. Send the gift of comfort and care with the Get Well Soon Package. What could be more nourishing for body and soul than homemade chicken soup? Featured in The New York Times (11/22/09), this Russ family recipe has 100 years of [...]

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In The New York Times article “Herring Return to the City, With Sex In Mind“  Joseph Berger writes, “Herring have found their way back to the Bronx — bound not for fish lovers’ plates, but for a clean, cool place to deposit the next generation.” Berger reports on the work of New York City parks [...]

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New York Times food writer Mark Bittman has a blog: Bitten.  It is particularly fantastic in that it features not only him, but posts from a few other writers as well.  The mix of voices – all essentially in search of, well, how to cook everything -  is singularly obsessed with cooking and eating fresh/local/sustainable [...]

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The New York Times visited a few of the city’s remaining neon sign makers in the wake of many businesses today turning instead to LED or back-lit plastic. The Times ran a great photo, of the Russ & Daughters’ sign and storefront. See it above. In the article, Christopher Gray writes, “The sign for the [...]

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Since July, the New York Times has featured a blog, Abstract City, by Christoph Niemann. Niemann is an accomplished illustrator; he does covers for The New Yorker, The NYT Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, and others, and he is also a children’s book author.  Niemann now lives in Berlin with his young sons and his wife, but [...]

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