Letter from the Publisher
As I write this from a NYC hotel room , I am remembering how difficult the past two years have been and how many of us have experienced profound sadness and loss . This weekend , while cheering on a friend in the NYC marathon , I was blessed to see humanity at its finest . As the race progressed , hundreds of thousands of people came out to cheer complete strangers on to the finish line . At mile 25 , I saw an exhausted woman trip and literally fall on her face . Other runners , also strangers , stopped to help her up and encourage her , bloody nose and all , to keep going . Our friend said that it was amazing how people would cheer him on at just the right moment when he needed the encouragement to finish the course . Sometimes we all need that encouragement , and sometimes we need to be the ones to give it .
As we enter the holiday season , I hope you ’ ll take some time to treat yourself and others . In this issue , we feature some fabulous cocktails from Fairweather , a cocktail and oyster bar located in the NoDa neighborhood of