Plugs — Emma Orlow
New York food, drink, and leisure recs from a veteran food journalist + LINKS
Plugs is The Angel’s recs column. On most Saturdays, you’ll get six picks—a restaurant, a bar, a shop, an ingredient, a person, and a treat—from someone in New York who knows what they’re talking about, plus a selection of Angel-curated links. Plugs are for paid subscribers of The Angel only; upgrade your subscription to receive all six!
#100/#5 is Emma Orlow, a founding journalist at Caper, the new food media venture that soft-launched earlier this month with a mission to cover “the people, money, ambition, power and chaos that fuels the food world.” Caper will soon be a full-fledged website filled with stories, but in the meantime, Emma and her colleagues are sharing what they’re learning via newsletter—from scoops on new openings to insidery industry intel. This past week, Emma reported on the cheesemonger Caroline Hesse, who supplies restaurants like Bridges and Le Veau d’Or and opens her warehouse to the public for tastings once a month. You can sign up for her future dispatches here. Before Caper, Emma was an editor at Eater and has spent over a decade covering New York’s food world (and other cultural beats) for The New York Times, New York Magazine, T Mag, Vogue, and more. She’s a native New Yorker with a talent for finding the delightfully weird, from dollhouse conventions to urban apple picking and Stew Leonard’s uncanny animatronics. Here she is with her Plugs.
Restaurant — Pupusas Ridgewood
I ride for this takeout place. It opened during the pandemic and is family-run. So many different types of pupusas to choose from, but I always find myself ordering the pumpkin flower one.
