Plus RFK Jr.’s YouTube cooking show, the fires in Bordeaux, and more |
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Welcome to Open Tab, a weekly roundup of the news, gossip, and stories that have stayed open in my tabs all week. Last time we covered the cyclospora outbreak and other product recalls.
In this week’s edition:
This week I found myself thinking about really good butter. I stopped in at the newly refurbished Capitaine and also at Penny here in New York—both of which offer a bread service with swoops of butter so buttercup-yellow, so tangy, so deeply flavorful that I've been filled with longing ever since.
In the full edition, we’re also discussing some choice items from Colonel Sanders’s estate sale, as well as the chef Bobby Flay’s role in the opening of viral grocery store Meadow Lane. Read the full edition here.
As always, if you have any food gossip to share, please send me a note or a DM.
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A new study released by beverage insights company IWSR shows that alcohol consumption rates among legal-aged Gen Zers is growing. Now, according to the study, it stands at 74% up from 66% in 2023. This change is a big deal. Americans have been drinking less alcohol in recent years, and headlines have pegged Gen Z as leading the charge. They’re more concerned with wellness, some say. Others link it to the loneliness epidemic.
This increase is good news for spirits companies who have seen vast declines in sales and stock prices over the past few years. They’ve evolved, launching non-alcoholic, wellness-focused products which you’ve likely seen on retail shelves. Still, Gen Z will need to get a whole lot thirstier these next few years if these enormous spirits corporations are going to stay operating. |
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Golden Steer, with its deep-button tufted leather banquettes, mirrored columns, and dark wood paneling, is glitzy. In fact, that the steakhouse hardly seems an appropriate place to celebrate the late Anthony Bourdain, who preferred a more salt-of-the-earth version like Keen’s. He’d have likely scoffed at the $240 steak, but the building at One Fifth Avenue holds a special significance in Bourdain-verse: In the ’90s, the space housed Vince and Linda’s, where he was the chef.
But those days are long gone, and on this Tuesday night, the Greenwich Village steakhouse played host to the premiere party for A24’s Bourdain biopic. |
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