The crew of Grain de Sail, a sailboat carrying a load of French biodynamic wines—without the carbon emissions of a cargo ship—hoists the mainsail and floats into town.
The founder of Oishii, whose haute-cuisine strawberries have sold for as much as ten dollars a pop, offers a tour of one of his V.C.-backed vertical farms, modelled on the foothills of Japan and built in New Jersey.
The work of the American artist—who has been using mass media’s aphoristic language and provocative tone to address charged subjects since the late eighties—fills MOMA’s soaring atrium.
At this Williamsburg-rooftop outpost of the beloved Philadelphia restaurant from the chef Michael Solomonov, the uniformly excellent salatim, an array of salads and dips, are followed by grilled skewers and brown-sugar soft serve.
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