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Readers of our most recent issue might recall that Sunday marks the start of (real New York State apple) Cider Week, which is being sponsored as part of a bigger “Apple Project” by the upstate agricultural not-for-profit Glynwood Center. The goal is to get more people (and wine shops and sommeliers) drinking and buying apple alcohol, which can benefits local orchards, economies and educated drinkers, who quickly realize cider is just as nuanced a beverage as beer or wine. The week kicks off at one of our favorite places: New Amsterdam Market, which is hosting “A Hard Cider Revival” with six different artisanal cideries from our foodshed each offering several styles of the drink.
We like to pride ourselves on using up every bit of a plant, gobbling up everything to young radish leaves, to pickled Swiss chard stems (a tip we learned from Michael Anthony at Gramercy Tavern) to the fresh roots of green garlic (that one was from Shea Gallante, of Ciano). But until we went with NY1 to The Bronx to visit Toby Adams, the manager of the 1.5-acre Ruth Rae Howell Family Garden at the New York Botanical Garden, we didn’t know that you could actually eat the tops of carrots.
Next Wednesday Night Taste India, Mexico and Austria (and More) in the Amazing Angel Orensanz Center
From Eat Drink Local Week to Good Beer, Edible is known for throwing some of the most delicious food and drink-focused events in the city. Here’s two coming up soon you won’t want to miss, including our Edible Escape on Wednesday, October 19th in the Lower East Side. Between the Gildas from Txikito and Chana Masala Rolls from Kati Roll, there will be plenty of food, but what’s food without drink? We’ve got that covered as well, with Beer from Stella Artois to wine from Austria to The Darjeeling Unlimited, a concoction of Tuthilltown bourbon and Harney and Sons tea. For the rest of the line-up, check out our events page.
This week on The Food Seen on HeritageRadioNetwork.com our photo editor Michael Harlan Turkell interviewed the owners of Brooklyn’s Thistle Hill Tavern. David Massoni, who worked for Mario Batali, and John Bush, a former music photographer, are partners in the Park Slope restaurant. Also online is episode 3 of HeritageRadio’s Matt & Rachel Show, the new talk show featuring yours truly and the Takedown’s Matt Timms. The week’s segment featured Plumpy’ Nut, why beans weren’t taken on the Western Trails, The Columbian Exchange and the difference between Cajun and Creole food.
You may have thought that there were labor laws to protect young kids from 14 hour days picking pesticide-sprayed tomatoes, but that’s not necessarily the case, according to director U. Roberto Romano’s documentary about underage migrant workers on American farms. The film, released earlier this year, was hard to catch in theaters but is now out on DVD today. Called The Harvest or La Cosecha, it was backed by actress Eva Longoria and follows three children as they work the fields in Texas, Florida and Michigan.
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We’ve just got word from our friends at the High Line that they’ve already sold nearly a third of the available $5 tickets to their Social Soup Experiment on October 22. On that day two seatings of 95 diners will gather at one communal table high above the streets to sup bean and farro soup–sourced from New York State farms and served alla Romana with spicy olive oil. We’re a sponsor, as is the $5 Challenge, which hopes to prove that you can eat well and deliciously on a budget without opting for fast or processed food.
If you skipped the Edible Brookyn Cookbook sale and signing at Union Square Greenmarket today (that’s us below) no worries: The book’ll be back at Manhattan’s biggest market next month. (You can also score a signed copy at the Barnes & Noble tomorrow night in Park Slope, Brooklyn, or on Saturday at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket.) But you also missed the cauliflower wizardry of market manager David Sherman. He’s there every Monday and Wednesday, and when some famous chef or cookbook author isn’t cooking for shoppers, he is.
Not many folks get to watch a butter churning demonstration blocks from the Bedford Avenue L train, but you can when you come to How to Milk It, the latest installment in our How-To series at Williamsburg’s Brooklyn Brewery. Anne Saxelby of Saxelby Cheese and Chef Fromager Tia Keenan will also be on hand for cheesy discussions. It’s How to Milk It on Wednesday, October 26th at the Brooklyn Brewery.
Edible Escape, our travel-themed tasting event in celebration of our inaugural travel issue, is fast approaching like a high speed Euro-train. It takes place October 19th at the stunning Angel Orensanz Center, which itself is like an escape to another time and place. At $40, tickets are a lot cheaper than a flight around the world, and we can guarantee the food will be better, plus we’re giving away Bodum coffee presses and Bodum ceramic knives.
Yesterday marked the official publication date of the Edible Brooklyn cookbook, a project our sister publication started nearly a year ago to the day. It’s a beautiful book of more than 100 recipes and stories from local readers, cooks, farmers, gardeners, picklers, brewers, egg cream makers and other food producers from the borough of Kings. You can order a copy in all the normal places–Barnes & Noble.com, Amazon, etc.– but seeing as we’re Edible Manhattan, we’d be remiss not to tell you to track it down in a local bookshop, or even at a local Greenmarket, where we’ll be selling and signing copies throughout the rest of the month.
