Plugs — Tanya Bush
New York food, drink, and leisure recs from the debut author and pastry chef + 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!
#101/#6 is Tanya Bush, a writer, baker, and the author of Will This Make You Happy, a wonderful narrative cookbook released last week. When she sent me a copy last December, I devoured it over the course of four hours, then made her brown butter chocolate chip hazelnut cookies the next day. Tanya is the co-founder of Cake Zine and the pastry chef for Little Egg in Prospect Heights, where she makes simply phenomenal apple fritters. She also oversees pastry for Tables of Contents, an organization at the intersection of food and literature. She’s a contributor for T Magazine and has bylines in The Paris Review, New York Magazine, i-D, and Guernica. Here’s Tanya with her Plugs.
Restaurant — Smithereens
I’ve been to Smithereens many times since it opened (always at the bar) and it’s just undeniably cool. The atmosphere is very basement-glam, the wine list includes handwritten tasting notes that read like prose poems and the food is spectacular and smart – pairings like snapper and smoked beet, a tempura fried fish with the best tartar sauce of your life, a killer apple cider doughnut with citric acid in the coating. Perfect.
