Restaurants
Bar Masa; Uncle Boons; Spotted Pig (“for my one burger a month.”); L’Artusi for pasta; Ippudo for ramen; Blue Ribbon for fried chicken or the bone marrow fried rice

Cafés
Kava 

Escape
Singapore (“they have the best street food on the planet.”); St Barth

Kitchen essentials
Microplane for zesting; a good Japanese knife

Favorite Farmstands
Windfall Farm for greens; Madura for mushrooms; BodhitreeFarm (“they grow the best chard, kale and have amazing eggs. They let the chicken go around the greenhouses so the eggs are almost tinted green because they eat herbs.”); Paffenroth Farms for root vegetables. (“He has the best onions and beets, carrots.”)