Naked Granola Squares

A creative meeting of oats and regional ingredients capture local flavors in these new snack bars

Rather than stick with traditional ingrediants and bland oat-based recipes, Naked Granola‘s new Naked Granola Squares satisfy healthy snacking with an emphasis on flavor over filler. Six years in the making, their geography-inspired product seeks to capture the local flavors of six places using local ingredients: Seattle Nights, Maine, California, Key West, Maui and Down Under. The idea behind Naked Granola is simple—use the best …

VOLT ink: Recipes. Stories. Brothers.

An intensely personal cookbook by brothers and chefs

The day before Michael and Bryan Voltaggio‘s collaborative new cookbook VOLT ink. hit the shelves this week we talked over a delicious lunch at chef George Mendes’s Aldea. Sharing a meal with the Voltaggio brothers is a lens into their worlds and their bonds—to each other, their families and the people they work with. The heavily-tattooed, good-looking and highly-acclaimed chef brothers have achieved great professional …

Mariage Frères Thé Vert Nouveau

First-harvest green teas grown on Mount Fuji

Over 157 years experience, more than 500 varieties of tea sourced from 30 countries and Mariage Frères continues to add to its already-impressive offerings. Their Thé Vert Nouveau (new green tea) collection features four varieties of Japanese green tea grown in very small fields on Mount Fuji, irrigated with water from the mountain’s melting snow. The Meicha Sencha teas are all from the first harvest …