An Enchantingly Proustian Apartment

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 GREAT ROOMS [Proustian and Epicurean]( Ariane Ruskin Batterberry and her late husband, Michael, founders of Food & Wine, moved into this apartment in 1969. Photo: Annie Schlechter “I don’t cook at all,” says Ariane Ruskin Batterberry, which might seem like a surprising thing for one of the founders of Food & Wine magazine to say, as we dig into lunch at one of her favorite local restaurants near the Upper East Side apartment she’s lived in for more than 50 years. “I have no talent. Cooking really is a passion and a talent, and I didn’t have the talent; I fortunately didn’t have the passion.” She and her late husband, Michael Batterberry, teamed up with three others to found the magazine in 1978. “He would read cookbooks the way you would read a novel,” she remembers, “then he’d make up something on his own.” [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Ebony L. Haynes Was Obsessed With the Encyclopedia Britannica As a Kid The director of 52 Walker answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”]( As told to Diana Budds [Nature-Inspired Glass Lighting, Soft Seating at Lincoln Center, and More Finds Plus a monument to a historic Filipino settlement in Louisiana.]( By Diana Budds [The Best Part of Don’t Worry Darling Is the Set Design Mid-century Palm Springs stands in for a utopia that devolves into something sinister.]( By Diana Budds [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( If you enjoyed reading Curbed’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or [sign up for our Design Hunting newsletter]( for a visual diary from design editor Wendy Goodman. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved