Emma Wartzman is the kitchen and dining writer at New York Magazine’s the Strategist. Previously, she was an editor at Bon Appétit. If you spend the summer someplace where crab cakes and fish and ...

Bowl of potatoes with knife and cutting board - Yelenayemchuk/Getty Images America's fine dining scene features so many world-renowned restaurants that it's easy to forget that just two centuries ago, ...

America's fine dining scene features so many world-renowned restaurants that it's easy to forget that just two centuries ago, it didn't even exist. In the mid-19th century, one restaurant in ...