If you’re heading out in the next few days to track down one more perfect holiday gift, we’ve got a few ideas. From the avid cook to the amateur bartender, this city is a veritable treasure chest of edible gifts.
If you haven’t gotten your holiday fix yet, there’s still time! Read on for tips on where to take in the sights, smells and flavors of the holidays.
This cocktail calls for beet kvass, a slightly fizzy, naturally fermented drink from the Old World. Find it at Zabar’s made by Brooklyn-based company The Gefelteria.
Forget the canned icing. This year, take gingerbread house making up a notch with The Farm on Adderley. For 30 bucks (plus tax) they’ll provide a pre-fab ginger home and an assortment of goodies–without corn syrup or artificial colors–to create the all-natural house of your dreams.
Thanks to all our sandwich-loving poets for entering!
Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like this Winter Solstice Feast to benefit the Bushwick Farmers’ Market. Here’s what’s happening this weekend.
When we offered to throw in a free copy of “Edible Brooklyn: The Cookbook” with a subscription to our magazine, we knew it’d be a hit. But wow! The response to our offer has been even more positive than we could have imagined. So we’re extending the deadline for anybody who hasn’t had a chance to sign up.
Eating local in New York 12 months a year used to be challenge. It took planning and hard work–canning, drying and making jam, or else you’d end up eating stored root vegetables all winter. But now, thanks to pioneering upstate farmers, we city dwellers can eat Hudson Valley produce–without suffering one bit!–all winter long. The trick? Winter CSAs of frozen local produce.
Woo-eee…we knew we should have laid off the latkes at last night’s Fourth Annual Latke Festival at BAM after, oh say, the 15th one, but they were just so good!
These days, some of Brooklyn’s Greenmarkets are buzzing in more ways than one. They’ve got a new—and very popular—table, heavy with brown bottles labeled “Bad Seed Cider.”
Andrew Cote, urban beekeeper extraordinaire and founder of the not-for-profit organization Bees Without Borders, is looking for donations to fund his latest project, Bees Over Badgers.
Brrr…it’s cold outside. We’ve barely started on our lunch, but already we’re dreaming about what to put in the oven for dinner tonight. Here’s a recipe that will do just fine: rich and creamy 5-cheese mac and cheese from Home Cooking with Jean-Georges: My Favorite Simple Recipes (his wife, Marja, actually created it).
