Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like Good Spirits, our fourth annual food and cocktail pairing extravaganza on February 21st. Join us for a night of handcrafted cocktails (and pairings!), like Eden Ice Cider’s Basil Bellini paired with a selection of Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto’s salumi. Get your tickets while you still can. Here’s what’s happening this week.
Kvass, a slightly fizzy, naturally fermented drink from the Old World made from rye bread, beets or even sometimes lettuce, is experiencing a sort of rebirth in Brooklyn, thanks to the folks behind Gefilteria, a new Clinton Hill–based boutique purveyor of Old-World Jewish foods.
The theme for this year’s TEDx Manhattan conference, “Changing the Way We Eat,” couldn’t be dearer to our hearts: to explore the food system as we shift to a more sustainable way of eating and farming. Sadly for us (and most of you) tickets are way sold out. The good news is we can all tune in to the conference online here where it will be livestreaming this Saturday, February 16th, from 10:30am – 6:00pm.
Weather Up is exactly the kind of bar you want to hole up in while the blizzard rages. Between the soft yellow lighting and sublime drinks, you’ll be warm from the belly out.
Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like Good Spirits, our fourth annual food and cocktail pairing extravaganza on February 21st. Join us for a night of food and handcrafted cocktails, like the Ole’ Jane Moro featuring Widow Jane 7-year Bourbon, blood orange, cardamom and a hint of Cacao Prieto Cacao Rum. Here’s what’s happening this week.
Marie Viljoen is always one step ahead of the rest of us, putting up preserves or drying botanicals to make it through the long, nothing-is-growing-anymore winter. In our current issue she tells us how she captured the essence of summer in a bottle of homemade Cornelian cherry bitters, which she uses to shake up inspired cocktails in the cold months.
Tonight Chefs for the Marcellus is hosting “Food Not Frack on Film,” an evening of short films and an informal panel discussion followed by an after-party at Jimmy’s No. 43 featuring frack-free New York beer.
Come February, we at Edible get bombarded with Valentine’s Day dinner ideas, most of which are so forgettable we don’t even bother sharing. But this year Kriemhild Dairy (who’s grassfed butter we wrote about in our magazine last year) had an idea that we loved.
Plenty of city dwellers, short on space and free time, have entertained the idea of moving to the country and learning to make wine. But Peter Becraft actually did it. And he’s apparently pretty good!
Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like this 2-day organic beekeeping series. Here’s what’s happening this week.
Cacao Prieto may be owner Daniel Preston’s retirement fun, but it’s also nothing short of brilliant. When he’s not busy patenting his ideas or building heirloom cacao libraries, the Red Hook distiller spends his time creating cacao-infused rum and other fantastic spirits.
In case you missed it, the Good Food Awards for best beer, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, coffee, confections, pickles, preserves and spirits were announced earlier this month.
