Spice Master Lior Lev Sercarz | Recommendations - Find. Eat. Drink.
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MINAMOTO KITCHOAN
Midtown
Japanese Bakery
Find | Bakeries - New york, NY
It's a Japanese bakery and I love it. Go for red bean paste desserts and their soy crackers. They change their menu often.
DOMINIQUE ANSEL
Soho
Bakery
Dominque Ansel worked at Boulud before opening his store. He is really showing French pastries as they are - macaroons, éclairs. But he’s also showcasing things like Kouign Amann, which is a baked good from Brittany folded with butter and sugar and baked until it becomes super crispy on the outside, yet really moist on the inside. He also introduces the Sablé Breton, things that in France people know of, but here they don’t necessarily.
Who
The Art of Blending is the new cookbook from spice master Lior Lev Sercarz.
Why
The book features stories behind his blends and 41 accessible recipes using his spices, courtesy of his famous clients, which include chefs like Daniel Boulud, Eric Ripert, Michelle Bernstein, Paul Kahan and Parisian baker Apollonia Poilâne.
Spice Master Lior Lev Sercarz | Recommendations
December 6, 2012
Photograph courtesy of Lior Lev Sercarz
6 Things... Sugar & Spice
IL LABORATORIO DEL GELATO
Lower East Side
Ice Cream
Find | Ice Cream / Gelato - New york, NY
It’s about what’s in season. So if the mangoes are ripe, there’s great mango ice cream. You come next week, there’s nothing. I think that I really like that approach and I love going here.
KALUSTYAN’S
Murray Hill
Spices
Find | Spices - New york, NY
There are about 10,000 items in this spice store, which is insane. The second floor has a tiny restaurant where you could get pita bread and falafel and they make phenomenal rice dishes and everything is cooked by the staff who work there. It’s one of the best lunch bargains in the city. I think it’s a phenomenal mini-restaurant within that store.
PARM
Nolita
Italian
Eat | Restaurants - New york, NY
I like to sit at the bar and have their frozen ice cream cake for dessert. It’s so good. It will remind you of the frozen ice cream cakes from the 70s and ‘80s. You don’t have to be ashamed anymore that you want to have meatballs and then an ice cream cake.
BARBOUNIA
Park Avenue South
Middle Eastern
Nice spices and Israeli cuisine. It doesn’t necessarily reflect Israeli restaurants, because of the décor and the vibe. But go for the food, they really do great food.
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