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...former Brooklyn Brewery general manager and marketing director of Millennium Import started Joto Sake, an import firm, with $250,000 in equity and a personal lust for the drink. "More sake is sold in the U.S. than French champagne," he says dryly, sitting in his warehouse office in Manhattan. "People think of sake as a niche category...
...with wine." Haute-cuisine restaurants--from New York's Per Se to Chicago's Charlie Trotter's to Rubicon in San Francisco--are increasingly looking to sake pairings to satiate--and educate--diners. This fall, in the custard-colored dining room of Chanterelle, an icon of French cuisine in Manhattan, the restaurant held its ninth annual sake-pairing dinner. The chandeliered room flowed with Japanese syllables as master sommelier Roger Dagorn led the pouring of a different sake with each of the nine courses. At the main table sat the sake master of the Japan Prestige Sake Association, Kazu Yamazaki...
While urban beekeeping is buzzing in Europe and the U.S.--San Francisco is full of busy bees, and Chicago's green-roof program provides ideal space for hives--it is illegal in Manhattan, where honeybees fall under an ordinance that forbids keeping animals that are "wild, ferocious, fierce, dangerous or naturally inclined to do harm." The solution, it seems, is to put hives up high, where they will be undetected and give the bees easy access to rooftop gardens. David Graves, 57, who has hives on the Upper West Side, in Harlem and on a 12-story hotel...
Whang, whose parents operated a large grocery store on Long Island and a small chain of bodegas in Manhattan, cut his teeth in the business working for a dollar...
...championship meets. The move, Wollner said, provided a “symbolic token” to inspire the team. Judging from the results, the move paid dividends. Rathgeber and freshman Derick Chui each won three events, while Wollner and junior Eric Lynch each grabbed two more. Wollner, a Manhattan native, won the 200 and 400 freestyles by only tenths of a second in front of a hometown crowd. “The loss at Columbia [two years ago] was really embarrassing for me especially—it was in front of a hometown crowd, and I lost a really close...