Steve Mosco, the former editor-in-chief at Anton Media Group, is a columnist for Long Island Weekly's food and sports sections. He fancies himself a tastemaker, food influencer and king of all eaters.
Aphrodisiacs aren’t real. It doesn’t matter how many oysters you slurp down, how much chocolate you stuff in your face or how many hot peppers you burn down your throat—if your partner’s not in the...
Iconic Long Island eatery breathes new life into diner fare
Rockville Centre’s Pantry Diner burned to the ground in 2011. With the family business completely destroyed, owner Tommy Mavroudis’ gut reaction was to immediately rebuild the...
“I don’t know what this means. I don’t think it means anything.” —Eddie Vedder, of Pearl Jam, upon receiving a Grammy award in 1996 for Best Rock Performance.
Despite what the institution itself wants you to...
To some people, the very idea of food and drink pairings conjures up images of snooty high-brow types sipping from tea cups with pinkies proudly protruding. The more modern day stereotype is that of a...
Think about the typical Thanksgiving day for a moment. For most of us, it’s the day when family members gather in the kitchen to prepare an obscenely large feast while playfully harassing one another and...
Ranking cookies like the monster that I am
If you were to diagnose all of those furry characters on Sesame Street, Cookie Monster certainly wouldn’t be placed in the “obsessive-compulsive disorder” category (that would clearly be...
Sincere Engineer set to open at the Paramount Nov. 17
Sometimes you wake up on the bathroom floor. Sometimes existential angst keeps you from getting up from the couch. Sometimes apathy mixes with social anxiety and...
It’s hard to hate on flapjacks
Have you ever woken up in the morning with a portion of your comforter in your mouth? No, seriously. Probably on a Saturday morning, the sun shines through your bedroom...
There’s the sweet tooth, and then there’s the meat tooth
Every year around this time, you stock your home with as much chocolate as possible because you’re absolutely sure that despite all evidence pointing to the...
One mother’s experience with autism
I prefer the romantic version. “Elope” is defined by Webster’s as “to run off secretly to be married, without the...
In an effort to secure funding and take full advantage of state resources allocated for local economic development needs, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran...
Patrons to eat blindfolded meal in restaurant transformed into setting of post-apocalyptic Netflix blockbuster thriller
The historic Milleridge Inn in Jericho will transform into scenes...
Local photographer Marzena Grabczynska is one of the featured artists in an exhibit currently at LIU Post in Brookville titled “Endless Summer – Visions...
