With apologies to the New Yorker, we’re pleased as Hot Gin Punch to present the Hendrick’s Gin cartoon caption contest. With help from this artisanal, small-batch gin, we’re offering three lucky readers who can best caption the image above two seats apiece to an invitation-only Edible Brooklyn: The Cookbook dinner inside “The Hendrick’s Enchanted Forest,” the pretty awesome indoor forest installation they’re bringing to Brooklyn for the very first time.

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The recent sad news in The Brooklyn Paper that the Bay Ridge soda shoppe called Hinsch’s had shuttered reminded us of a very cool link a friend sent us a few months back to a site called Project Neon. Hinsch’s was known as much for its neon signage as its scoops of ice cream, which were still served old-school style in tiny metal trays. It’s one of the many city places cataloged by Brooklyn photographer Kirsten Hively on her Tumblr and Flickr sites. Earlier this year Hively launched a Kickstarter campaign to help develop an iPhone app to locate amazing neon signs around the city, and you can now download the results of her work, much of it food and beverage focused, right here.

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Last week the folks at NYC Food Film Festival finally posted the rundown for season five of the annual event celebrating shorts about our favorite subject. The fest takes place from October 13 through 16 at Tribeca Cinemas: 21 films on all aspects of cooking, farming, dining and eating. And of course there are the parties including those featuring Food Porn, Rockaway Tacos in Manhattan and the Peruvian gastronomic feast called Mistura.

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Farmers are really just agricultural artists, working for a balance between animal, land and humans—at least this is the feeling I was left with after one in a series of talks by young farmers/artists at the Gavin Brown enterprise gallery this…

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Of all the ways to celebrate National Poetry Month, there can be no finer than to spend the evening at Back Forty in the East Village, drinking cocktails paired with poems. And there could be no better host for this…

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For most of its eight-month run, “Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen,” at the Museum of Modern Art has been lacking a critical ingredient: real food. But last month that problem was solved with an Italian-themed dinner inspired by…

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Last fall Edible Brooklyn profiled Christina Kelly, an artist who filled planters on city streets with heirloom corn in attempt to highlight the long-lost maize crops of our Lenape indian forbears. This weekend, as part of an ongoing project called…

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There are many reasons an Edible Manhattan reader should stop in at Chelsea Market, the mini-mall on Ninth Avenue and West 15th Street: There’s the local dairy, grilled cheese sandwiches and snacks at Lucy’s Whey, and there’s Dickson’s Farmstand Meats,…

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