What’s a Long Island Cheese Pumpkin and Where You Can Find It
More and more city restaurants are substituting the Long Island cheese pumpkin for the ubiquitous butternut and acorn squashes.
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Where to Eat, Drink and Shop in Chelsea
Chelsea’s restaurants, shops and producers offer some of the most delightful food in the city — especially during summer.
Eat-Commerce: FarmersWeb Helps Big City Buyers Order from Small Farms
Launched three years ago by three Manhattanites, FarmersWeb is a sort of virtual Hunts Point for everything from chicken to cherries to cheese, connecting 400 city buyers to dozens of local farms — with more on the wait list.
VIDEO: Take a Ride Alongside These Biking Chefs
Grab your helmet and bike alongside these carbon-footprint conserving chefs — well, virtually, anyway.
IN OUR CURRENT ISSUE: A Rikers Island Farm That Grows Hope
The 250 prisoner-run GreenHouse isn’t just the country’s largest penal colony’s farm initiative — and it grows a lot more than vegetables and herbs.
EDIBLE GLIMPSES: A Restaurant Where Farmers Are the Real Celebrities
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.
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Chalk one up for the local team.
