In honor of Eat-Drink-Local week, our annual 8-day celebration of our foodshed, we’re teaming up with ‘wichcraft for a backyard pig roast in Bryant Park. Aside from the obvious, a pig–this one sustainably raised at Niman Ranch–we’ll have loads of Greenmarket fixings and ‘wichcraft’s award-winning oatmeal cream’wiches, plus Long Island wines, New York state beers and music.
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We are still high from the 2013 James Beard media awards last week. Not because we won another of those medals—which are basically the academy awards of the food world—but because some of our very favorite peers took home the top honors.
Susan Hardy and Maureen Knapp, Organic Valley dairy farmers from upstate New York, have formed an ongoing relationship with The Earth School, an eco-minded public school on East 6th Street. Two weeks ago, the farmers paid the schoolkids a visit.
At his West Village Japanese restaurant, Chef Takashi Inoue features all sorts of unusual cuts of meat. Taking the nose-to-tail trend to a whole new level, customers will find animal parts unheard of on other menus (cow’s testicles, calf’s brains, and three kinds of cow stomach among them) prepared in inventive new ways.
Wowza! When we asked you, dear readers, to send us your pics of an ingredient or dish that makes you heart NY, we hardly expected such a response. Now we need your help sifting through these beauties to choose a winner to send this cookbook to.
At Cookshop, sourcing locally is serious business. From a strict Made-in-America-only cheese policy to the grand six-foot chalkboard displaying the names of the farmers who provide the restaurant’s ingredients, every touch celebrates our local foodshed.
Come May 29th, we’ll be sipping award-winning Long Island wines and feasting on some of the finest fare in Brooklyn (and Manhattan). Here are just a few things we’ll be tasting.
We got our hands delightfully dirty making this issue—and hope you’ll have just as much fun digging in.
As an ode to New York, Daniel Humm and Will Guidara, the chef/manager team behind Eleven Madison Park and NoMad restaurants, have teamed up and released a gorgeous cookbook showcasing the ingredients, farmers and bounty of the Empire State. Now we’re giving away a free copy to one lucky reader.
Here’s a pleasure that’s even better: wild blueberries you’ve picked yourself, for free, in a breathtakingly beautiful nature preserve.
Meanwhile, Citymeals-on-Wheels, the nonprofit that provides hot weekend meals to the homebound elderly, has teamed up with GrowNYC to deliver fresh fruit and vegetables.
