Motorino Expands Hours; Robicelli’s Market ClosesPlus: Isaac Mizrahi’s Mushroom Truffle Spaghetti served at Saks, and a mystery beer tasting in Park Slope, in our regular roundup of neighborhood food news.
Amanda Hesser Out at the ‘Times’Food editor Amanda Hesser took a buyout from the Times, but does her departure involve more than money?
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Amanda Hesser Takes Some Time Away If you get into your Sunday groove by reading Amanda Hesser’s bouncy food coverage in the Times Magazine, you may have a cold winter ahead of you: Mrs. Latte has gone on a long leave to work on a book and is being replaced in the interim by Jill Santopietro, a lesser being in the Times firmament but one with much experience doing short recipe and travel pieces and the occasional feature. Will those obsolescent recipes continue? Will there be more pieces à la T Style’s “Mantry” series? We can only hope. Hesser is scheduled to return to the Times in March.
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Amanda Hesser in Trouble Again; Room 4 Dessert to ReopenTimes Magazine food editor Amanda Hesser runs afoul (again) of the paper’s strict conflict-of-interest policy, this time by reviewing a book by someone who had blurbed one of hers. [Gawker]
Room 4 Dessert, currently closed, will be reopening in a week. [Eater]
The DeMarco family has a special message to the public about Di Fara’s imminent reopening. [Gothamist]