Gabrielle Langholtz, Editor
Gabrielle Langholtz went to high school in Manhattan but fell in love with Brooklyn while at college in Virginia, where her local bar had Brooklyn Brewery Stout on tap. She swilled it while writing her undergraduate honors thesis on the Brooklyn Bridge's symbolism in art and literature, and moved to the boro upon graduating ('98). While battling a vegetable addiction, she was simultaneously a member of the Park Slope Food Co-op, tended a community garden plot, held a CSA membership, spent weekends on a farm upstate, and was a farmers market shopaholic. She has taught in the NYU Food Studies department and for five years has managed publicity for Greenmarket, the nation's largest network of farmers markets. She makes jam and pickles in her Park Slope apartment, pretending it's a farmhouse, and says her personal mission statement is to raise public awareness about the impacts different eating choices have on ecology, health, and the richness of life.
Stephen Munshin, Publisher
Stephen Munshin has been involved with food at many levels, "from the lowliest cook pulling up mats in the kitchen at 3 a.m., to the head bartender pulling up mats behind the bar at 4 a.m." He has worked in restaurants from San Diego to the East End of Long Island and points in between. Looking for a way to keep traveling, he began importing Nepalese outerwear, which turned into a full-fledged clothing line designed by his wife and produced in India, China and New York. Ten years later, Stephen is still traveling but not in the same way. He now has two sons, which has increased his desire to live and work locally. And realizing that the clothing business will not be experiencing a move to local production, he felt he should contribute to the "buy local" movement on a personal level instead. In addition to publishing Edible East End, Edible Brooklyn, and Edible Manhattan, Stephen helps launch new Edible magazines around the country.
Brian Halweil, Executive Editor
Brian Halweil has been at the forefront of the growing "eat local" movement. As a student at Stanford University, Brian worked with California farmers interested in reducing their pesticide use, and set up a two-acre student-run organic farm on the Stanford campus. In 1997, he joined Worldwatch Institute as a Senior Researcher and John Gardner Public Service Fellow. At the Institute, Brian writes on the social and ecological impacts of how we grow food, focusing recently on organic farming, biotechnology, hunger and rural communities. He describes the evolving local food movement in his recent book Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket. Brian's work has also been featured in the international press, and he has testified before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the role of biotechnology in combating poverty and hunger in the developing world. He has traveled throughout Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and East Africa learning indigenous farming techniques and promoting sustainable food production. He works on Edible East End and other Edible publications from his home in Sag Harbor, New York, where he and his wife tend a home garden and orchard.
Gabrielle Langholtz went to high school in Manhattan but fell in love with Brooklyn while at college in Virginia, where her local bar had Brooklyn Brewery Stout on tap. She swilled it while writing her undergraduate honors thesis on the Brooklyn Bridge's symbolism in art and literature, and moved to the boro upon graduating ('98). While battling a vegetable addiction, she was simultaneously a member of the Park Slope Food Co-op, tended a community garden plot, held a CSA membership, spent weekends on a farm upstate, and was a farmers market shopaholic. She has taught in the NYU Food Studies department and for five years has managed publicity for Greenmarket, the nation's largest network of farmers markets. She makes jam and pickles in her Park Slope apartment, pretending it's a farmhouse, and says her personal mission statement is to raise public awareness about the impacts different eating choices have on ecology, health, and the richness of life.
Stephen Munshin, Publisher
Stephen Munshin has been involved with food at many levels, "from the lowliest cook pulling up mats in the kitchen at 3 a.m., to the head bartender pulling up mats behind the bar at 4 a.m." He has worked in restaurants from San Diego to the East End of Long Island and points in between. Looking for a way to keep traveling, he began importing Nepalese outerwear, which turned into a full-fledged clothing line designed by his wife and produced in India, China and New York. Ten years later, Stephen is still traveling but not in the same way. He now has two sons, which has increased his desire to live and work locally. And realizing that the clothing business will not be experiencing a move to local production, he felt he should contribute to the "buy local" movement on a personal level instead. In addition to publishing Edible East End, Edible Brooklyn, and Edible Manhattan, Stephen helps launch new Edible magazines around the country.
Brian Halweil, Executive Editor
Brian Halweil has been at the forefront of the growing "eat local" movement. As a student at Stanford University, Brian worked with California farmers interested in reducing their pesticide use, and set up a two-acre student-run organic farm on the Stanford campus. In 1997, he joined Worldwatch Institute as a Senior Researcher and John Gardner Public Service Fellow. At the Institute, Brian writes on the social and ecological impacts of how we grow food, focusing recently on organic farming, biotechnology, hunger and rural communities. He describes the evolving local food movement in his recent book Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket. Brian's work has also been featured in the international press, and he has testified before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the role of biotechnology in combating poverty and hunger in the developing world. He has traveled throughout Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and East Africa learning indigenous farming techniques and promoting sustainable food production. He works on Edible East End and other Edible publications from his home in Sag Harbor, New York, where he and his wife tend a home garden and orchard.
Rachel Graville, Event Director
Rachel Graville's food education began in the kitchen, where an interest in cooking led her to summer jobs as a teenager including scrubbing pans in a bakery, making and scooping local ice cream, pulling espresso, and cooking in a catering kitchen. While studying international politics in college, she spent her free time overseeing the alternative lunch program as the kitchen manager at her college co-op. Her studies and cooking took her to Mexico, Brazil, and Canada, but it was an opportunity to unite her passion for food and politics, in the form of an internship at Slow Food USA, that brought her to New York. Her work with the Edible publications allows her to interact with and learn from inspirational figures across many sectors of the food community.
Rachel Graville's food education began in the kitchen, where an interest in cooking led her to summer jobs as a teenager including scrubbing pans in a bakery, making and scooping local ice cream, pulling espresso, and cooking in a catering kitchen. While studying international politics in college, she spent her free time overseeing the alternative lunch program as the kitchen manager at her college co-op. Her studies and cooking took her to Mexico, Brazil, and Canada, but it was an opportunity to unite her passion for food and politics, in the form of an internship at Slow Food USA, that brought her to New York. Her work with the Edible publications allows her to interact with and learn from inspirational figures across many sectors of the food community.
Michael Harlan Turkell, Photo Editor
Michael Harlan Turkell is a freelance photographer and free-time cook who used to work in restaurants, but now photographs the inner workings of kitchens for his “Back of the House” project. His work was recently published in 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, Volume 2 by powerhouse books. He currently lives in Brooklyn and tends to eat and drink well. www.harlanturk.com
Michael Harlan Turkell is a freelance photographer and free-time cook who used to work in restaurants, but now photographs the inner workings of kitchens for his “Back of the House” project. His work was recently published in 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, Volume 2 by powerhouse books. He currently lives in Brooklyn and tends to eat and drink well. www.harlanturk.com
