Abby Carney

When Fall’s Chill Arrives, It’s Mighty Uighur Meat Pies We Crave, Baked Just Off Brighton Beach

As the weather gets seriously chilly, the one thing we crave is the lamby cooking of the Uighurs, the Asian Muslims who hail from the part of the world where Asia reaches toward Russia. Back in 2006, we were enchanted by an article in the Times by Julia Moskin called The Silk Road Leads to Queens, about the food of those from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Afghanistan and western China: like these lamb-stuffed pasties called samsa.

Audible Edible: This Week on Heritage Radio Network, Music Meets Food, and Vice Versa

Today at 3 p.m. on his Heritage Radio Network program our photo editor Michael Harlan Turkell interviews Leigh Newman of Black Balloon Publishing and her author Michael Hearst, who, with the help of his band One Ring Zero, just published a cookbook/album called The Recipe Project. Hearst asked some of the country’s best chefs (Tom Colicchio, David Chang,Michael Symon, Aarón Sanchez, Chris Cosentino and Mario Batali, for starters) to send him a recipe, and suggest a style of music: Then he turned the cooking how-tos into songs.

Project Neon: One Brooklynite’s Love for Old-School Signage Sparks an iPhone App and an Art Show

The recent news in The Brooklyn Paper that the Bay Ridge soda shoppe called Hinsch’s has shuttered reminded us of a very cool link a friend sent us a few months back to a site called Project Neon. Hinsch’s was known as much for its neon signage at Fifth Avenue and 86th Street as its scoops of ice cream, which were still served old-school style in tiny metal trays. It’s one of the many city places cataloged by Brooklyn photographer Kirsten Hively on her Tumblr and Flickr sites.

This Week on HeritageRadioNetwork.Com

Today at 3 p.m. on The Food Seen on HeritageRadioNetwork.com catch our photo editor Michael Harlan Turkell interviewing the owners of Brooklyn gastropub Thistle Hill Tavern. Meanwhile, on episode 3 of HeritageRadio’s Matt & Rachel Show, our deputy editor and her co-host Matt Timms talk about cows with windows in their bellies, Plumpy’ Nut, why beans weren’t taken on Western cattle trails and The Columbian Exchange.

#12 on Food Republic’s Top 33 Things to Look Forward to this Fall: Us

We were pleased to spot the new Edible Brooklyn cookbook as no. 12 in a national–national!–roundup of 33 things to look forward to this fall on FoodRepublic.com. This is a list that includes the new Johnny Depp-as-Hunter-Thompson movie, trips to Miami, turduckens, the upcoming Texas-based season of Top Chef and leftover Halloween candy. No faint praise for what’s cooking in the Borough of Kings.