Root

Organic liquor blending tradition and innovation

It’s not a new product, but for the first time Art in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction’s signature liquor, Root, is available outside of creator Steve Grasse’s home state of Pennsylvania. Art in The Age, which hosts a retail store in Philadelphia, is a brand named after Walter Benjamin’s landmark 1936 essay, “Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction,” the themes of which Grasse tried …

A Girl and Her Pig

April Bloomfield on cookbooks, swine and the flavors of childhood

Having established both her talent and an unassuming sense of cool, April Bloomfield has chosen an appropriate cover shot for her new cookbook, “A Girl and Her Pig“, which shows the chef nonchalantly posed with a very dead hog slung across her shoulders. Her landmark restaurant The Spotted Pig and its follow-up The Breslin both welcome a whole pig each week to be butchered at …

Tranquil Tuesdays

Our interview with Charlene Wang on her socially responsible tea brand

In a cozy showroom nestled in the alleys of old Beijing, we met Charlene Wang of Tranquil Tuesdays upon her return from the spring harvest of white peony tea in Fujian province. Wang has combined her passion for tea and her background as a US State Department human rights officer to create her brand, which aims to bring back the purity of ancient tea tradition. …