This week, our editors consider what’s next: for overfished oceans, threatened and necessary insects, locavores, and undeniably “scrappy” farmworkers. Read on.
The recent snow might have interfered with some of your social plans, but it doesn’t have to change your seasonal fruit regime. Here’s what’s in season with some as well as some tips for how to eat it.
The take away from this week’s roundup? We’re all connected in the global food system, for better or for worse. Our editors see the glass half full with these links.
There are a lot of reasons to love good bread, including the fact that it’s available year-round. Orwasher’s has been baking bread over on the Upper East Side and offers several locally inspired loaves.
Our editors take us both backward and forward in time with stories of sad-but-true vintage recipes, local wine lore and soon-to-be 3D printers for home kitchens.
Cultured dairy from upstate farms is still widely available around this time of year, and Park Slope’s aptly-named Culture yogurt shop has products that hit the spot.
Our editors consider some of the food system’s biggest debates this week with timely reads on the reality of Fair Trade certification, GMO-phobia and the Gulf’s so-called “dead zone.”
To celebrate our borough’s burgeoning food and beverage culture, we’ll be reposting one #EBdailypic reader photo per week to our Instagram feed.
Curious about what you can expect from nearby farms this week? Here’s what Fishkill Farms based in East Fishkill, NY, has to offer via Brooklyn’s Good Eggs.
Holed up post-blizzard, our editors consider lobsters with David Foster Wallace, imagine how dietary restrictions would fly in Middle Earth and share Long Island-inspired seafood cookbooks. Dig in.
It’s the time of year for sharing wishes. Our staff list is inspired both by near and far, but undeniably has several common themes: what we like to eat, and how and where we like to enjoy it.
With judges including Michael Pollan, Alice Waters and Anna Lappé, the contest is a great opportunity to experiment with a short film to show how you are helping to build a better food system.