Comment | August 1, 2011 | By Rachel Wharton | Photographs by Lexi Van De Walle
It’s been a month since our third annual statewide Eat Drink Local Week came to a close, and we’ve finally sorted through our Challenge entries to pick a few winners. The main focus of Eat Drink Local is our partnering restaurant…
Comment | July 18, 2011 | By Brian Halweil
There are now 307 wineries in New York State, and growing. From Long Island up through the Hudson Valley to the Finger Lakes, the state counts a handful of major wine regions, and each year New York wineries produce 180…
Comment | June 30, 2011 | By Rachel Wharton
As the last day of Eat Drink Local Week unfolds, we’d just like to tip our hats to the pickler who’s usually wearing one: Rick Field of Rick’s Picks. Always a supporter of local produce and of all things Edible,…
1 comment | By Rachel Wharton | Photographs by Aliza Eliazarov
Back in the winter when we were picking out our Seven Eat Drink Local Ingredients of the Week, we asked you for your favorite locally procured foods, especially those that you felt were undersung or beneath the radar. One of…
Comment | June 29, 2011 | By Brian Halweil
While we’ve been singing the praises of our Eat Drink Local restaurant partners in the big city–offering special menus through tomorrow, June 30–this weeklong food chain celebration is actually a much bigger affair. Farmers, winemakers, brewers and other food and…
3 comments so far | By Brian Halweil | Photographs by Morgan Yeager
What more could be said about oysters, and why they are the perfect Ingredient of the Week? For New Yorkers, the case for slurping Crassostrea virginica—not just during Eat Drink Local week, but year round–is historical, economic, ecological, cultural, as…
Comment | June 28, 2011 | By Rachel Wharton | Photographs by Melina Hammer
When we were selecting our seven ingredients to celebrate each day of Eat Drink Local Week, we wanted a mix of the hyper-seasonal (peas, green garlic, rhubarb) along with a few up-and coming locally produced foodstuffs we felt needed our…
Comment | June 27, 2011 | By Brian Halweil
Forgive me, Tina Fey–whose “The Mother’s Prayer for Its Daughter” in Bossypants* begins with “First, Lord: No tattoos.” But, as a proud father, I must enter my three-year-old daughter Clio in the Eat Drink Local Challenge. Not just for her heroic oyster slurping, her prolific pea picking and her garlic scape gnawing. But for her [...]