1 comment | March 20, 2013 | By Geraldine Pluenneke | Photographs by courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
A Place at the Table is a compelling, disturbing and compassionate film, which reveals how hunger is the flip side of obesity in America and its cost is human potential.
Comment | November 10, 2010 | By Geraldine Pluenneke | Photographs by the Sylvia Center
AMAGANSETT–The dream for the Amagansett Food Institute was conceived over a dinner of harvest produce on Stony Hill Road a year ago on a golden October evening–for a center that would pull the East End together with a focus on…
Comment | October 6, 2010 | By Geraldine Pluenneke | Photographs by Photograph by Lindsay Morris.
East End EDL Report
We blew into Scrimshaw last night on a damp chill wind past dinghies rocking in the bay by this dockside restaurant (featured in Edible East End last fall), the day’s plunge in temperature reminding us of…
1 comment | By Geraldine Pluenneke | Photographs by Lindsay Morris
East End EDL Report
From the heirloom tomato Bloody Marys spiced with peppers from the restaurant garden outside to wood-roasted peaches with biscotti, the Eat Drink Local menu at Nick & Toni’s clearly was no accident. You could trace executive…
Comment | September 30, 2010 | By Geraldine Pluenneke
We arrived at Southampton’s Red Bar Brasserie, a glowing candlelit room, and both opted for the the $29 prix fixe, as part of Eat Drink Local. The Brazilian waiter (“I’m a southern boy,” he grinned. “Way south.”) served us two…
Comment | September 29, 2010 | By Geraldine Pluenneke | Photographs by Randee Daddona
Last night we arrived at the Jamesport’s Luce & Hawkins — the Back of the House profilee in this summer’s Edible East End–our appetites primed for Chef Keith Luce’s Eat Drink Local week menu. Seated in the handsome glass enclosed…
4 comments so far | May 2, 2009 | By Geraldine Pluenneke
This four-star chef traded his whisk for a spade.
Comment | January 2, 2009 | By Geraldine Pluenneke
How a family of prescient purveyors anticipated America’s gourmet revolution.