Summer is here and the flowers have arrived! When we heard our friends at Ovando Studio (just about our favorite event florist in NYC) was holding a book launch for the luxury book publisher Assouline Publishing, Neuman’s Kitchen couldn’t be happier to be a part of the celebration! Afterall, a sign of great event design…
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One of the many benefits of moving Neuman’s Kitchen to Long Island City, besides the state of the art kitchen, is the opportunity to get deeply involved with local high schools and career training programs in our neighborhood. This May, Neuman’s Kitchen hosted its first outreach class with some of the students from the Long…
Read MoreWhen Julian Alonzo got a call asking him if he was interested in being the executive chef of a catering company, he hung up on the headhunter. “I said, ‘Are you kidding me? Don’t waste my time,’” recalls Alonzo. Yet less than two years later, Alonzo is happily helming the kitchen at a large New York catering company that’s been on the scene…
Read MoreOk, so AFTER all the photo shoot drama, I still had to run to Manhattan and return samples to S.I.L.K New York and Daisy Fuentes for Kohl’s. Turns out that I also had to attend the New York debut of lifestyle brand Life is good. They were sweet enough to send me an invitation (and, being me, I…
Read MoreAfter deciding that working in his family’s construction business “was not for me,” Ramsawack started as a part-time packer at Neuman’s Kitchen. It was the right start for this “quick study with a passion for learning”; he moved his way up the company ladder from driver to expediter to manager to sales. Now overseeing a team of three full-time assistants, he produces some of Neuman’s…
Read More“The biggest enemy of quality in our business is time”, says Paul Neuman and slowly leans back into his black armchair. He looks like someone who has fought this enemy on the battlefield. “We know every elevator in the buildings of our clients and we know how long it takes in each to go up”,…
Read MoreNEW YORK CITY — Though summer officially kicks off in late June, for many the Fourth of July is the inaugural celebration of the season. DNAinfo New York found decoration suppliers, drink and food recipes — and no-cook options — for hosting a fabulous Fourth of July party on any budget. We even scouted the best…
Read MoreContributor Jake Safane has been profiling neighborhood restaurants and food shops for The Lo-Down. In the latest edition of his ongoing series, Jake explores the history of Neuman’s Kitchen, a successful catering business on Chrystie Street. As the fourth generation of his family to run a food business in New York, caterer Paul Neuman grew…
Read MoreHad a fabulous lunch today at the home of Harriette Rose Katz for an intimate round-table discussion entitled, “Lunch with a FEW Friends.” Sublime food was served by executive chef Julian Alonzo from Neuman’s Kitchen. The lunch included jumbo lump crab cake with stone ground mustard sauce. lemon roasted chicken roulade with pan juice, matouf…
Read MoreKraft Foods Group is voluntarily recalling 1.2 million cases of several brands of cottage cheese products because they have been stored improperly and might cause illness. Affected products were made at the firm’s Tulare, Calif., plant and include certain Knudsen Cottage Cheese, Breakstone’s Cottage Cheese, Simply Kraft Cottage Cheese and Daily Chef Cottage Cheese products,…
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