After Olives and Libertine owner Todd English bailed on his wedding at the last minute, friends and family of the jilted bride-not-to-be decided to party on, making the most of the celebrity chef's leftovers. The Post reports that 150 guests of Erica Wang decided to forge ahead with the fancy affair at the the St. Regis Hotel, enjoying a five-course dinner on English's dime. The scene sounded similar to the non-wedding bash had at the Mandarin over the summer when baller Richard Jefferson left his fiance at the altar. more ›

Though they’re grown on the west coast, raw olives are rarely found at produce markets. This is because you can’t pop them raw like candy: they’re filled with a supremely bitter substance called oleuropein that gets obliterated by manufacturers during the curing process, with a hefty dose of lye. The mission olives seen here, found and purchased at Three Guys from Brooklyn, are the worst oleuropein offenders of all, because the green fruit is the most unripe kind. Regardless, these olives are waiting for you. If you listen closely to the tidal winds sweeping off Fort Hamilton Parkway, you can hear the olives calling. "Cure us," they sigh, "We’ll taste good." more ›