Edible Manhattan

Tommy Rowles, a small Irish bartender who was hired in 1958. A local legend, he has wiped down the same bar for 53 years and has never had another job. Any reporter who walks into Bemelmans wants to bend Rowles’s ear, and you get the feeling that the man’s developed an earache.

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Old-school on a barstool at the Carlyle Hotel.

Message in a Bottle. Rick Smith and Hiroko Furukawa stock 150 bottles at their Ninth Street store—the only sake specialty shop on the East Coast.

For Saké’s Sake

Message in a Bottle. Rick Smith and Hiroko Furukawa stock 150 bottles at their Ninth Street store—the only sake specialty shop on the East Coast.

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Frozen Assets

An upstate start-up proves that “ family farm” and “processing plant” belong in the same sentence.

Pamphlets on not one but two topics I’m already planning to cover! Great minds think alike. (Couldn’t resist those Organic Valley coupons btw.)

A Report, in iPhone Photos, from Last Weekend’s Northeast Organic Farming Association Convention

Comment | January 27, 2012 | By

Last weekend I had a few seriously inspiring days at the annual winter conference held by NOFA-NY, the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York. The sessions were fantastic, and I just love being around men holding babies, women talking about carcass weight, everyone knitting and yes, people bringing their own garlic to slice onto salad. Here are some photo highlights (with captions) from my trip.

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Haven's Kitchen

Meet Haven’s Kitchen, the New School, Market, Supper Club, Cafe and Rooftop Farm Near Union Square

Comment | January 26, 2012 | By

As any urbanite can attest, in order to survive and thrive in the concrete jungle, it is absolutely vital to have some sort of haven, whether it’s a coffee shop that always seems to have that one free electrical outlet or a spot in Central Park that gets the perfect amount of sun in the wintertime. If you don’t have a special spot, Alison Schneider wants to introduce you to a new place to escape, which she’s appropriately named Haven’s Kitchen.

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A participant in Greenmarket's New Farmer Development Program loads up produce headed to city farmers markets.

On Monday Night: Eat, Drink and Help Immigrant Farmers

Comment | By | Photographs by Greenmarket/GrowNYC.org

Monday night we’ll be getting down for a great cause at a fundraiser for the New Farmer Development Project, and you should too. Presented in partnership with Gourmet Latino, tickets are $75. What, you ask, is the NFDP? An inspiring Greenmarket effort, it helps immigrant farmers set up their own farms in the NYC area. (In-the-know urban eaters seek them out especially for seldom-seen herbs like papalo and pepiche.)

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    Win this Bodum Press; and Get the Scoop on the City’s Best Butcher Shop

    5 comments so far | January 24, 2012 | By

    Here’s how to enter to win: Tell us about your favorite seafood shop in the comments below before midnight on Friday. Be sure to register with a real email address so we can contact you later if you win. We’ll pick a reader based on what we think is the best response. Extra points for those who lead us to best-ofs we haven’t already tracked down for our online listings.

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    Book it: The Cookbook Conference Comes to the Roger Smith on Feb 9

    Comment | January 23, 2012 | By | Photographs by Lou Rouse

    On February 9 to 11, the Roger Smith Hotel will host the Cookbook Conference, a three day intensive series of panels and workshops for publishers, writers, editors, agents, researchers and readers. The goal isn’t just practical advice–how to pitch, position and test a cookbook, say–but also to think deeply about the history and future of a genre that most of those who read this site take very, very seriously. In our opinion, cookbooks cover as diverse a world as fiction, and can be just as transporting. (Not to mention handy at times.)

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