If you haven’t signed up for a CSA yet, you should consider joining one of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger’s sites, which make healthy, organic, fresh vegetables particularly affordable and accessible to community members of all income levels.
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If this warm, then cold, then warm, then freezing weather has affected you like it has us, your throat is aching and you feel more like cuddling up under a blanket than picnicking in the park. This recipe for Warm Spiced Ginger Tea is the perfect remedy for the where-is-spring blues.
Friends, seriously, quit your day job now. Anne Saxelby is looking for someone to become the newest cheesemonger at her Essex Street Market shop and that someone could be you.
In the wake of California’s failed Proposition 37, which would have mandated the labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms (aka GMOs), the debate over the consumer’s right to know is getting heated.
Educators at the Learning Garden on Randall’s Island work to help kids born in a land of pavement understand that most food starts in the dirt, not the supermarket. Beyond the usual carrots and tomatoes, they decided in 2010 to add one of the world’s most ubiquitous foods to the crops they grow: rice.
With carbon footprints and fourth-floor walkups to consider, companies like SodaStream have tapped into a huge market with their home carbonators. Now thirsty New Yorkers can pour cold glasses of bubbly water whenever they want with the help of these eco-friendly machines, for only pennies per glass.
To fight industrialized agriculture’s squeezing out of all the beautiful, unique foods once enjoyed year round in our nation, Slow Food USA created the Ark of Taste, a catalog of over 200 delicious foods in danger of being wiped out forever. By planting these seeds (and enjoying the bounty that follows), you can preserve a bit of culinary history for future generations.
City Winery and Stark Wine are hosting an oyster and wine tasting, Sip, Slurp, And Save, tomorrow to help raise awareness about the world water crisis and WaterAid, an international nonprofit organization that has brought safe drinking water to 17.5 million people since 1981.
It was one of our biggest How To’s yet, with a full house of budding entrepreneurs, armed with notepads, questions and a whole lot of ambition, looking to learn How To Sell from our panel of experts.
A Place at the Table is a compelling, disturbing and compassionate film, which reveals how hunger is the flip side of obesity in America and its cost is human potential.
City Council members will vote Wednesday whether to allow rezoning on Pier 17 and the East River waterfront in Lower Manhattan, a move which would allow the iconic, city-owned Fulton Fish Market buildings to be destroyed and replaced with a luxury high-rise complex whose details have not been disclosed to the public.
New York City has some of the best tap water in the world. So good, in fact, the EPA says it doesn’t even require filtration. So how do you get eight million New Yorkers, constantly on the go, to give up the convenience of disposable water bottles and drink from the tap?
