AUG 2024 | #104 ISSUE

In this month’s issue, our front and back cover story is with the Executive Chef of Hav & Mar, a Marcus Samuelsson Group restaurant, James Beard Finalist, and Food Network Judge/TV Personality - Chef Fariyal Abullahi! We talked with her about how she came to the industry, her love for cooking, her culinary background, the importance of integrity, sustainability, and changing the restaurant industry culture! In addition, this cover editorial took place in her restaurant.

We also sat down with Team USA Track & Field Olympic Gold Medalist, Grant Holloway. We chatted with him the day after he won Gold in the 100M Hurdles. We talked about how this 2X Olympian came to the sport, his training process, winning the Gold, what he enjoyed about his Olympic experience, and more.

We also sat down with Team USA Climbing Olympian, Natalia Grossman. We talked about the sport, how she trains, where she enjoys climbing, being in The Olympic Village and more.

We caught up with Chef Andrew Wong about his Michelin-starred restaurant A. Wong in London. He talked about his passion for food, opening his restaurant, what we can expect when we dine there, and food anthropology.

We always enjoy chatting with Alysia Reiner as she was a former cover and we find that she is always involved in a new project or show that we are already fans of! She shares with us her fitness routines, TV shows and films she's part of and more.

We also have an interview with Le Jardinier's Chef Andrew Ayala as we wanted to know more about his Michelin restaurant, how he came to this hospitality group, and his participation in Outstanding in the Field which took place in Governors Island and was hosted by Billion Oyster Project.

We're always looking for our next streamed show and Apple TV+'s Bad Monkey is on our list. We had the pleasure of interviewing Natalie Martinez to talk about storytelling, why she wanted to be on this show, and more.

Keegan Michael Key sat down with us to talk about his partnership with Lysol, the importance of teaching, being on ABC's Abbott Elementaryand upcoming projects.

We enjoy attending Citi Taste of Tennis which allows tennis stars and hospitality to come together. We love eating a number of the bites from restaurants, seeing culinary competitions that involve creating dishes, and toasting the US Open! We also interviewed Andre Agassi, Ayan Broomfield and Prakash Amritraj who you can hear his commentary during the matches on Tennis Channel for Tennis Channel Live.

We also talked with Chef Ryan Ratino of Jônt and Ômo by Jônt for this month's The Art of the Snack. We talk about his culinary background, how he came to launching both of these restaurants, and what we can expect when we come in to dine.

This month's Athleisure List comes from wellness studio The Dominick Hotel in SoHo and Abaco Inn in the Bahamas.

This month’s 9PLAYLIST comes from Team USA Olympic Beach Volleyball players Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng. This month we have our 9PLAYLIST MULTI from Chef Fariyal Abdullahi and Chef Robert Irvine who share their songs, books and podcasts/TV/films that they are enjoying. Our 9LIST STORI3S comes from Team USA Olympic Track & Field Grant Holloway and Team USA Olympic Gymnastics Jordan Chiles. Our 63MIX ROUTIN3S comes from Brooke Burke as well as last month's cover and WSL #2 ranked surfer who competed on Team USA Surfing Gina Colapinto who shares their routines that they do, enjoy, and have Morning, Afternoon, and Night. This month's THE 9LIST 9CH3FS and THE 9LIST 9B-L-D comes from Chef Reina Tang of SushiDelic in NYC, Executive Chef Tolu "Eros" Erogbogbo of Ile in LA, and Laurie McDuffie.