The Magazine: May-June 2012
Movable Feast:
Where a Tower Was Tabled, a Farm Took Root
Riverpark restaurant turned a stalled construction site into city salad.
Grow Your Own:
Urban Ag U
A classy program helps city farmers mind their peas and coops.
Notable Edibles:
Ingredient-Driven
Jacober’s favorite, by the way, would probably please the real Morris: It’s chef Austin’s riff on a Reuben, made with dilly Russian “tartar” sauce, corned beef and his own pickled Napa cabbage.
Alter Ego:
Barneys to Barns
How the well-heeled men behind Manolo Blahnik stepped boldly into the cow field.
Notable Edibles:
Raise the Roof
More than 60 percent of the produce on the menu at his West Village restaurant, Bell, Book & Candle, is grown in soil-free aeroponics towers on the building’s rooftop.
Field Trip:
Free-Range New Yorkers
Just 30 minutes from Midtown, the Stone Barns Center can make you a farmer for life—or just an afternoon.
Taking Back the Food System:
Corps Values
Year-old FoodCorps grows veggies, awareness from grass roots.
Notable Edibles:
For Locavores, Liquid Gold
An upstate entrepreneur is turning would-be compost into liquid gold: squash seed oil.
Grist for the Mill:
Agricultural Innovations in an Urban Environment
We might be short on open acres but here in the shadows of skyscrapers we’re enjoying a bumper crop of agricultural innovations.
Urban Forager:
If You Can’t Beat ’em, Eat ’em
Day lilies are fair game—and fine fare.
Green Thumbs:
How to Know What You Sow Will Grow
An upstate startup only stocks seeds that ♥ NY.
Infrastructure:
Baldor’s Big Move
A massive city wholesaler now sources from its own backyard.
Nomenclature:
Tastes Like Chicken
When it comes to pigeon and squab, it’s all relative.
Traceability:
From Hops to Chops
How Eataly’s in-house brewmaster transforms leftover grain into luscious pork.
Aftertaste:
New York’s First Children’s Garden
With the support of city officials and the help of hardworking children, Mrs. Parsons transformed a one-acre garbage dump into 400 fertilized plots open to children of all classes and races.
Behind the Scenes:
Northern Spy
An accidental restaurant wins hearts and minds in the East Village.
The Idea Factory:
Gardeners With Benefits
One determined New Yorker learned food stamps can be spent on seeds and seedlings—and set out to change the world.
Liquid Assets:
Finger Lakes Distilling
A former vineyard goes farm to flask.