Purple Yam’s food is kind of like your mother’s cooking, but only if she once worked the line in a four-star restaurant.
Internet radio is where it’s at… or at least where to listen. Especially on Tuesdays at 3 p.m., when our photo editor Michael Harlan Turkell hosts THE FOOD SEEN. Today’s guests are Manhattan chefs Julian Medina and Pichet Ong, who have collaborated on a 24-hour Cuban diner in Manhattan called Coppelia. The episode and more are available online.
Until now Brooklyn’s Heritage Foods only sold its meats directly to chefs and restaurants or online, serving as broker between small family farms who can’t afford to process their proteins and city customers who want sustainably sourced meat. Last week they moved into real brick and mortar digs, in what used to be Jeffrey’s Meat Market in the Essex Street Market.
Last week the folks at NYC Food Film Festival finally posted the rundown for season five of the annual event celebrating shorts about our favorite subject. The fest takes place from October 13 through 16 at Tribeca Cinemas: 21 films on all aspects of cooking, farming, dining and eating. And of course there are the parties: These three look mighty tasty to us.
We think City Harvest is pretty cool indeed for bringing a big-time fundraiser to the…
Green & Black’s–the maker of organic, Fair-Trade chocolate–will be appearing at Travel + Leisure’s Global…
This Saturday night bk farmyards hosts a $40 fundraiser dinner: It will be local produce prepared by a slew of local restaurants right in the Kingston Avenue fields where it was grown by Brooklyn students with help from bk farmyards. Best yet: You can take the subway!
We’re pleased to note that Bark, Franny’s, Betto, Mile End, Do or Dine, Fatty ‘Cue, the Meat Hook, Brooklyn Kitchen and Palo Santo have all added their names to the list of restaurants and shops contributing to post-hurricane farm relief via Dine Out Irene.
The Edible Brooklyn cookbook made Eater National’s fall cookbook list. Not surprising, considering so many of you are in it. The book arrives in the borough on October 4, but we sure wouldn’t mind if you pre-ordered a copy on Amazon.
With help from Laena McCarthy, who runs Brooklyn’s Anarchy in a Jar, head Brooklyn Grange farm guy Ben Flanner uses tomatillos, chiles and an surprising selection of herbs from his Long Island City fields to create salsa verde that’s bright, layered with flavor and utterly fantastic. Damn, is this stuff good.
Thanks to Pig Island, a heritage breed hog is headed to the AutoGarden, the urban gardening and food program run by Jenny Kessler at Automotive High School, a public school in Brooklyn. (And tickets are still available as the 20 participating chefs gather to get their locally and sustainably raised pigs in Union Square from upstate farmers.)
Farmers from around our region were hit hard by Hurricane Irene. To help them, please participate in Dine Out Irene on September 25.
