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 [...]
Comment | By Rachel Wharton | Photographs by Erin Gleeson
Like the tomato, rhubarb has a bit of federal legislation behind its lore: The perfectly pink-to-pale green part we eat is the celery-like stem of a perennial plant, which scientifically speaking puts it squarely in the vegetable camp. But just…
Comment | June 26, 2011 | By Gabrielle Langholtz | Photographs by Nicole Franzen
Cherries and chevre? You can keep em. Don’t get me wrong – I love just about every single ingredient at the farmers market year round, and go into a real-food reverie this time of year, eating myself sick on sugar…
Comment | June 25, 2011 | By Rachel Wharton | Photographs by Michael Harlan Turkell
If you’re looking for the lowest toil-to-taste ratio in your early summer produce, sweet truly in season peas are maybe not at the top of your list. Though not as much of a chore to prep as favas — two…
Comment | June 24, 2011 | By Michaela Johnson
Restaurants and farm stands aren’t the only places to celebrate Eat Drink Local Week: From gelato to shaved ice, bread to cheese, our EDLW Business Partners have some special offers to extend to shoppers for the duration of the Week.…
Comment | By Michaela Johnson
Today marks the start of Eat Drink Local Week, seven days of parties and restaurant specials designed to show off the best of our foodshed. Uptown and downtown Manhattan, all the way out to the East End of Long Island, and of…
Comment | By Michaela Johnson
Today marks the start of Eat Drink Local Week, seven days of parties and restaurant specials designed to show off the best of our foodshed. Uptown, downtown, in north and south Brooklyn and all the way out to the East End of…