Samuel Fromartz, if you'll recall, was the surprise winner of Y&H's debut baguette competition last year, beating out breads from local icons like Marvelous Market and Breadline, even national big boys like Le Pain Quotidien and La Brea Bakery. Well, good news travels fast, or semi-fast. Last week, Fromartz got a call from the office [...]

While others are excited by the holiday season, a few of us are excited by a whole different season: the olio novello season, the time of year when Italian new-harvest oil starts coming into the country. When I was in Philly a week ago, I asked the owner of Claudio's when its house-brand, new-harvest oil [...]

The Amy-eos at Dean & DeLuca Or just visit your favorite bakery instead. Assuming you have one other than Teaism, that is. Earlier this week, I asked the Y&H Nation, via my twitter account, where they might like to pick up a good cookie for National Cookie Day, which is tomorrow. The vast majority of the [...]

I'm a big believer in canceling out gym-burned calories by eating something hi-cal and unhealthy afterward. Today after a workout, having discovered that Cornucopia, the little Italian market and sandwich shop near our gym, was cruelly and inexplicably closed (the owner is Italian; is he really out whooping it up over Herbert Hoover?), I stopped [...]