Author: Lucas Li

Food

StillRoom’s Executive Chef Sam Goldman: cooking confidential

Sam Goldman has been around in the restaurant business. A founding member of Kitchen Confidential and homeboy to Anthony Bourdain, he’s worked at several top restaurants in New York for a big chunk of his life until he eventually left the scene. He hasn’t cooked in a professional kitchen in almost a decade. Where’s he […]

Travel Report

Trump International Hotel & Tower New York celebrates 15 years with a chandelier

It makes sense, 15 year anniversary, $15,000. Book the two night Crystal Anniversary package at Trump International’s New York location from January 15, 2012 to January 15, 2013 and treat yourself to dinner for two at Jean Georges, the hotel’s three-Michelin-Star restaurant, including a bottle of premier Champagne; a 750ml bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal […]

The Gift

Russian Standard Gold Vodka

If there was ever a healthy Vodka, this would be pretty close, inspired by a recipe developed by Dmitri Mendeleev, the inventor of the periodic table. Encased in a box looking like the cover of Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne. Russian Standard Gold is lightly flavored with extracts from Siberian ginseng making it […]