JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
When Sarah Rich and Wendy MacNaughton were browsing at an antiquarian book fair in San Francisco four years ago, they couldn’t believe what they found tucked into a display case: an unpublished 1945 sketchbook filled with hand-lettered recipes for everything from borscht to brisket, accompanied by hand-painted gouache paintings. They soon learned that “Leave Me…
S.I. Newhouse Jr., the billionaire owner of the publishing company that owns some of America’s most important magazines, died Sunday at the age of 89. Newhouse inherited the Conde Nast publishing company in 1975 and grew it into a multi-billion dollar business. Among the magazines in that umbrella include The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,…
It is with a heavy heart and a deep longing for a bowl of comforting matzo ball soup that I read about the closing of Gourmet magazine, which was announced on Monday. The culinary giant of Condé Nast, which has been a staple of both the New York and national food scene since its birth…
