Winter produce doesn’t have to dreary. With recipes like this one for rich roasted parsnip and sweet potato soup from Karol Lu, a competitive cooking veteran, you can dine like a king, even in the coldest months.
Join Edible Manhattan and Slow Food NYC for a tasting of more than 100 wines from over 15 regions of Italy. Buy tickets here, and receive a complimentary copy of the new Slow Wine guide, which will be discounted for Edible readers!
Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like this elegant Tuscan feast. Here’s what’s happening this week.
When Bridget Firtle worked on Wall Street as an analyst, she dreamed of retiring someday and running a craft distillery. One year later and she’s left behind the life of luxury to make rum in a Bushwick distillery she’s named the Noble Experiment—a tongue-in-cheek reappropriation of the euphemism for Prohibition.
Yesterday the Department of Sanitation and Grow NYC dropped some pretty heavy news on New York City: since they introduced collections at Greenmarkets in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island in 2011, they’ve collection ONE MILLION POUNDS of compost.
In Latin America, the peak of Christmas celebrating takes place this Sunday, aka El dia de los reyes (day of the kings). Known in English as Epiphany, January 6th commemorates the day the Three Kings arrived in Bethlehem bearing gifts for baby Jesus. But the part that gets us all giddy is the food, obviously.
After all the holiday feasting and feting, who couldn’t use a little pick-me-up to get through the work week? Here’s a cocktail from the folks at Kings County Distillery and Marlow & Sons restaurant in Williamsburg that’s just right for our we’d-rather-be-baking-cookies-than-sitting-at-this-desk mood.
Our former photo editor Michael Harlan Turkell spent the past year photographing rustic Italian dishes with the wonderfully talented Sara Jenkins, chef/owner of both Porchetta and Porsena restaurants in NYC. The result is a gorgeous app for iPad packed with recipes for simple, delicious food that’s easy to make based on 16 basic pantry items, plus loads of beautiful photography (why are we not surprised?).
With the champagne drunk and the ball dropped, we’re taking a moment to ponder the next 364 days and what they’ll bring in terms of food.
Greenpoint-based Amelia Coulter’s muses are all around her: “I’m inspired by architecture, landscape and regional themes,” says the 27-year-old, who has a degree in sculpture. Of course, her medium of choice isn’t your standard mixed media. She decorates cookies!
Hungry? Our events calendar is packed with more ways than one to ring in the New Year in Edible style.
Today many of you will be off opening stockings and eating Christmas ham, but for many of our Jewish friends, another annual tradition awaits: Chinese food.
