This Wednesday nearly a hundred vendors will come together in South Williamsburg for the first ever food and beverage trade show in the borough of Kings (yippee! the list of participating vendors is basically the list of anyone in Brooklyn we’d ever want to interview about artisanal anything). With so many makers in one place–everything from kombucha, kimchi and jam to beef jerky and gin–the level of DIY deliciousness will be off the charts.
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Chefs around the city are sharpening their knives and firing up their grills for Eat-Drink-Local week, our eight-day love fest for our foodshed which kicks off Saturday. We won’t spoil all the fun, but here are just a few of the gloriously local dishes you, too, can be devouring next week.
Food and Finance High, founded in 2004, is the only vocational public school in the city with food as a “major.” Aside from the usual math and English classes they need to graduate with a Regents diploma, students learn how to wield knives, tend a garden, cook like a pro and start a restaurant from the ground up.
Cancel your brunch plans and start fasting Saturday night because this Sunday, June 23rd the New Amsterdam Market is back!
Chef Takashi Inoue knows his meat and serves it well…or should we say rare? The nose-to-tail West Village Japanese restaurant serves up unusual cuts like cow’s testicles, calf’s brains, and three kinds of cow stomach, all gorgeously presented and prepared in inventive ways.
Navigating the city that never sleeps (or should we call it “the city of a million stairs”?) doesn’t get easier with aging joints. Neither does schlepping heavy bags of groceries home from the market, which is why GrowNYC (the organization that runs the Greenmarkets) is reaching out to our city’s elderly to help get them fresh food.
Why you should invest in the new print project called Short Stack right now.
Dating back to ancient times in Ukraine, korovai is a sweet, eggy yeast bread that is served at weddings and believed–by some–to possess magical powers. The ornate loaf is adorned with herbs, ribbons and bits of dough deftly shaped into birds, acorns, circular braids and infinity signs, all to bring fertility, happiness and wealth to a newlywed couple.
Last week we kicked off the summer season with a taste of Long Island in the heart of downtown Brooklyn at Brooklyn Uncorked. Wine sippers and food noshers descended on the spectacular Skylight One Hanson (aka the former Williamsburg Savings Bank), where we raised our glass (many times) to celebrate 40 years of Long Island wine making.
Zak Pelaccio, of Fatty Crab and Fatty ’Cue fame, earned his stripes for cooking unpretentious Malaysian-influenced food in the city. Now he’s traded the crowds and cabs for a post-and-beam barn upstate, closer to the farms he’s long worked with. His new restaurant, Fish & Game, opened this month in the town of Hudson.
Can six o’clock get here already??? We’re ready to hear those corks a poppin’ and fill our plates with all sorts of decadent bites at tonight’s Brooklyn Uncorked, our annual celebration of Long Island Wine. Here are some photos from last year’s fun so you can get excited, too.
If you missed our amazing panel of food writers and journalists at last month’s Food Media 101 at Brooklyn Brewery, you’re in luck. We caught a few of their expert tips for making a career in food media on video and, generous beings that we are, decided we’d share them with you!
