Next month we’re throwing a tasting party–Edible Escape–where you can savor flavors from around the world, all without needing a passport. Now ViniPortugal, one of our Edible Escape partners, is offering a sweet chance to win a 5-day, all-expenses-paid trip for two to Portugal to experience the wine–oh the wine!–, food and sights firsthand.
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While wholesalers might offer everything from fenugreek to whole turmeric, Junoon chef Vikas Khanna doesn’t settle for other people’s imports. He travels to India himself every month or two, bringing back as many spices as he can carry.
He says the garden is a place of serenity that transports him back to the plot where he grew greens, peppers and garlic with his family.
There are now more than 60 Edibles around the country, each chronicling its region’s best…
As stalls at the Greenmarkets overflow with late summer crops, here’s some inspiration to put up those peaches and tomatoes now. In our slideshow, Classie Parker, aka The Canning Queen, shares with her neighbors her food preservation fervor.
Last week, in the latest installment in our How To series at the Brooklyn Brewery, we set out to teach an audience of curious New Yorkers How to Shake, Muddle and Stir…cocktails, that is. If you missed out on the cocktail lessons (and awesome eats from Food Freaks Grilled Cheese), check out the slideshow for a glimpse of the fun.
This September, Le Fooding Brooklyn Fling will attempt to create “an insta-capture moment of all that is most alive in 2012, at the crossroads of style and deliciousness,” including a champagne dinner series, brunches at NiteHawk Cinema, vintage lunch at the Fort Greene and Williamsburg Flea Markets, and a campfire session with live music at the Williamsburg Flea Market. Well, we’re intrigued.
Down on the corner of Clinton and Essex Streets, Andrés Fabre has operated a shaved ice cart since immigrating to the United States from Santo Domingo in 1996.
Our friends at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York are gearing up now for their Third Annual New York Locavore Challenge, which kicks off next month. To encourage folks to “vote with your dollar,” the fun includes a 250-mile eating locally challenge (you get to cheat on spices and 5 can’t-be-sourced-locally items).
