Hungry? Our events calendar is packed full of Edible events around the city, like Thursday’s Hudson Whiskey Tasting where area wine shops will be serving up a seasonal whiskey cocktail mixed by a guest bartender from the neighborhood. Here’s what’s happening this week.
Save the Nook for the knapsack or nightstand, and hit the kitchen with these cookbooks until their pages are splattered and seasoned.
Our annual alcohol issue has just finished fermenting, and the print issue will hit the streets imminently, but why wait to uncork it? Download our digital edition free here now.
While other awards recognize food that tastes good or food that is good for the planet, the Good Food Awards honor people who make food that is good in all senses of the word: delicious, respectful of the environment, and connected to communities and cultural traditions. This year’s finalists represented us New Yorkers well, with 17 of those finalists hailing from our great state.
This weekend St. John Frizell, owner and bartender at Red Hook’s fab bar and restaurant Fort Defiance, will be teaching a class called “FIRE IN THE BOWL!: Hot Drinks for Long Nights” at the Intercourse, also in Red Hook. We’re big fans of hot punch, ‘specially this time of year, and thought we’d pass along the class description.
As part of the New York Botanical Garden’s annual Holiday Train Show, local bakers put on a display of better-than-your-five-year-old-could-make gingerbread houses (we love kiddie art, but these are serious gingerbread masterpieces).
Wowza! When we put out a call for entries into this year’s latke festival where amateurs will spar with chefs to see who has the best potato pancakes around, we were expecting something…well, amateurish. But this year’s nominee, Micah Fredman, simply blew us away with his recipe for Yucca and Sweet Potato Latke with Apple Plantain Sorbet, Queso Fresco, Pickled Onion, Cilantro and Spicy Green Hot Sauce.
With holiday parties looming and menus to plan, we thought of this rich, frothy punch by mixologist Casey Van Heel of Rye Restaurant in Williamsburg. Light as a feather, yet decadent thanks to the upstate milk, this cocktail is more dessert than drink and perfect for filling guests’ glasses at winter gatherings.
Hungry? Our events calendar is packed full of Edible events around the city, like Monday’s How to…Holiday at Brooklyn Brewery. We’ll have experts from Rachel’s Pies, Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats and Brooklyn Oenology Winery on hand to teach you tips for seamless hosting this holiday season. Here’s what’s happening this week.
In our current issue, Rachel Wharton takes us to the water’s edge to meet Gabe the Fish Babe, aka 27-year-old fishmonger Gabrielle Stommel, who delivers super fresh Rhode Island catch directly to prestigious city chefs.
This is easy. Seriously easy. Tell us why you love craft beer in the comments section below and we’ll hook two lucky winners up with connoisseur tickets to the NYC Craft Beer Festival Winter Harvest Edition on Saturday, December 1st.
With a simple RSVP, snag a spot at a Thanksgiving feast packed chock full of fall produce grown right here in Brooklyn. The folks at BK Farmyards, an amazing you-lend-us-land, we’ll-grow-you-food organization, will be hosting their first ever fall harvest meal at 61 Local this Thursday and we’re all invited.
