The Best Student Eats in New York

I don’t know about the rest of you, but back where I grew up you couldn’t take a half-hour subway ride to a secret taxidermy restaurant, a pickled herring boutique, or a hipster-filled

By Tessa Angle, Martina Brendel, Matthew Danel, Ben Everett, Mariko Foster, Daniel Haley, and Laura Rege | Dec 8 12:00 am ET

Keeping Warm With a Liquid Coat

When it comes to the cold, I’m sort of a sissy. Growing up in Colorado, I spent countless hours restoring my core temperature by the fireplace or in a hot bath.

By Ben Everett | Dec 1 12:00 am ET

Food for Thought

One of my favorite little adages about life is that it's easy to get weird. This occurred to me the other day as I was cutting up a block of human brain and wondering what it would taste like.

By Ben Everett | Sep 8 12:00 am ET

Brain Food

Cooking up a batch of calf or lamb brains may seem unappealing. They require a trip out of the neighborhood. They seem like a lot of work. They are brains.

By Ben Everett | Sep 8 12:00 am ET

Summer Sipping

Classes may have started, but there are still two weeks of summer. Here are two drinks to enjoy before fall.

The Mojito

By Ben Everett and Ciel Hunter | Sep 8 12:00 am ET

Pastis: Green Fairy With Clipped Wings

I've just spent a semester and a half in the front lines of pre-med, and have, with an eye to objectivity and falsifiability, observed the following: alcohol tolerance and social savvy are inversel

By Ben Everett | Mar 8 12:00 am ET

Food

There comes a moment when the neighborhood bar circuit shorts out.

By Ben Everett | Feb 2 12:00 am ET

That's a Fowl Shot

I stepped out into the pristine, close-cropped field, drank deeply of the frosty dawn air, frowned, and checked the bottoms of my boots. Both were clean.

By Ben Everett | Jan 28 12:00 am ET

Terrace in the Snow

Where atmosphere is concerned, restaurants are generally like cloisters: They ignore or disavow whatever happens to be outside their four walls, preferring to construct and control their own interi

By Ben Everett | Dec 8 12:00 am ET

Stollen Memories

"Will you come and listen to the bread?" is one of my favorite sentences, uttered by my father whenever he wants a second opinion on the loaf of Dresdner Stollen just pulled from the oven.

By Ben Everett | Dec 1 12:00 am ET