To celebrate T&C’s 175th anniversary, Martha Stewart selected three of James Villas’ recipes, that he wrote in the 1985 Town & Country Cookbook as the inaugural food and wine editor at T&C, to prepare at her home in Bedford, New York. Stewart chose to prepare Villas’s recipes for potato, leek, and carrot terrine; fried chicken; and strawberry-peach cobbler (sans strawberries) and reflected on the influence of Villas’ cookbook: “In the ’70s and ’80s, anyone who was interested in cooking followed James Villas at Town & Country. Our little gang of foodies all had this fabulous cookbook and would talk about the different things we made.”
Angie Mar hosted Town & Country at her new restaurant Les Trois Chevaux to celebrate their 175th Anniversary and sat down with Jay McInerney to discuss the concept of her new restaurant, the legacy of the Beatrice Inn, and how she is bringing fine dining back to New York: “I wanted a place that was calm and elegant. My dad always wore a blazer to dine out. He used to bring me to New York as a kid, and people dressed up then. The last five or six years it’s become acceptable to wear a T-shirt to Le Bernardin. I think there has to be respect for dining. This is New York. If I wanted to wear my yoga clothes to dinner, I’d be in L.A.”