Larissa Zimberoff

  • How to Run a World-Class Restaurant Without Butter

    At Betony, executive chef Bryce Shuman has taken a page from Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint series and banned butter from his kitchen to foster innovation.

  • A Man Named Chicken Gave Me An Education in Lamb

    I made a pilgrimage to Pennsylvania to learn about how local farms are producing some of the best lamb in the United States. In the process, I met a butcher named Chicken who taught me things I didn't expect.

  • A Denver Startup Is Making Gluten-Free Wheat with Mushrooms

    MycoTechnology, a small startup based in Denver, Colorado, has discovered a way to use its proprietary “mushroom technology” to strip a wheat kernel of enough of its gluten to warrant an FDA-approved label.

  • How to Get an Education in Meat

    When one Brooklyn chef was dissatisfied with the available meat offerings, he looked to a small, one-year-old company based in Pennsylvania for delicious, humanely slaughtered animals with signature flavor profiles.

  • How an Amish Turkey Farmer Found a Home on the Internet

    The owner of Hidden Camp Farm in upstate New York is Amish, but that doesn't stop him from owning a cellphone or putting LED lights on his fences. Now he's even selling his pasture-raised, organic birds online.