{"id":17938,"date":"2026-03-06T17:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=17938"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:55:28","slug":"what-emanuel-ax-cant-live-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/what-emanuel-ax-cant-live-without\/","title":{"rendered":"What Emanuel Ax Can\u2019t Live Without"},"content":{"rendered":"

From New York Magazine (The Strategist)<\/a><\/p>\n

By Emanuel Ax as told to Michael Zhao<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re like us, you\u2019ve probably wondered what everyday stuff famous people add to their carts \u2014 like hair spray or an electric toothbrush. We asked pianist Emanuel Ax \u2014 whose new podcast, \u201cClassical Music Happy Hour\u201d debuted this week \u2014 about the suit, iPad Pro, and chocolate he can\u2019t live without.<\/em><\/p>\n

The chili crisp he uses to make his favorite noodles
\nLao Gan Ma Spicy Chile Crisp $18
\nMy wife and I are big fans of Chinese food and Sichuan cold noodles are my favorite dish. When we were attending Juilliard, which is where we met, there was an Empire Szechuan restaurant every two blocks in Manhattan and we used to go there all the time to eat these noodles. We still eat out in Chinatown or sometimes Queens, but I also make the noodles at home using Shorty Tang\u2019s recipe. I use this chili crisp that my wife buys at the Upper West Side H-Mart.<\/p>\n

His go-to suit for performances since 1991
\nBrooks Brothers Classic Fit Wool 1818 Suit $1,498
\nYuja Wang<\/a> and myself are like the alpha and omega of concert pianists, when it comes to clothing. She\u2019s worn designs from every famous designer, and I wear the same thing at every performance. I bought this black suit at Brooks Brothers in 1991, and it\u2019s the same suit I\u2019ve been wearing ever since. I bought it right off the rack and only had the sleeves shortened and the pants cuffed. I only wear it for concerts, change out of it right away, and dry clean it as needed. I\u2019ve had to have the lining redone once, but other than that, no repairs have been needed. Maybe it\u2019s made of chainmail! I\u2019m afraid to change anything now because it\u2019s become a good luck thing. People might say, \u201cWell, how wonderful it is that you can still fit into the same suit so many years later.\u201d Sadly, that is only because I\u2019ve always been fat.<\/p>\n

The chocolate-covered wafers he\u2019s not supposed to have
\nKit Kat Candy Bar, Milk-Chocolate-Covered Crisp Wafers, 1.5-Ounce Bar (Pack of 36) $34
\nI have to confess that I really like Kit Kats. I know I\u2019m not supposed to have them \u2014 according to my mirror and scale, not my doctor \u2014 but I love the combination of chocolate and wafer. The crispy inside is hard to resist, even though I am trying. I also like the German Ritter Sport Waffel for the same reason, but that can be hard to find here.<\/p>\n

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From New York Magazine (The Strategist) By Emanuel Ax as told to Michael Zhao If you\u2019re like us, you\u2019ve probably wondered what everyday stuff famous people add to their carts \u2014 like hair spray or an electric toothbrush. We asked pianist Emanuel Ax \u2014 whose new podcast, \u201cClassical Music Happy Hour\u201d debuted this week \u2014 … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4967,7486,7485,7484],"class_list":["post-17938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emanuel-ax","tag-kit-kats","tag-new-york-magazine","tag-the-strategist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17939,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17938\/revisions\/17939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/10212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}