In this week’s NY1 segment, we visited Hayseed’s Big City Farm Supply in Greenpoint, an urban farming shop and training center that will be open through June.
There were lots of grand openings last weekend to signify the start of the outdoor dining season: Dekalb Market, the many Fleas, and Coney Island, the long-standing favorite long before food stalls became fashionable.
Our fourth annual Eat Drink Local week begins June 23rd, which means we once again need your help choosing the Seven Ingredients of the Week.
Our publisher stopped by Dekalb Market in downtown Brooklyn this Saturday for its 2012 opening and filed the following photo report.
Don’t forget! Tickets are on sale (and discounted if you buy them online) to the only travel event we know of designed for people obsessed with where their food comes from.
Recipes for Momofuku Cereal Milk, Stinky Bklyn’s five cheese mac and cheese, and other online extras to the stories in our current issue dairy-themed issue, which hit streets last week:
This Earth Day, April 22, Slow Money New York City is putting on a program to help readers like you figure out how to invest in the local food scene. The two-hour program will take place at Stone Barns Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, NY (cool!) and feature pitches from 5 awesome food and farm entrepreneurs looking to raise funds for their big ideas.
Up above Marlow and Sons at 81 Broadway is the home of Diner’s Journal, the magazine created with help from Diner, Romans and Marlow and Sons and Daughters. It’s also the home of This Must Be the Place, an arty community space led by Anna Dunn, the editor-in-chief of Diner’s Journal for whatever type of event feels right.
Our brand new Dairy Issue includes a profile of Kriemhild Dairy’s incredible Meadow Butter, made by a cooperative of four farmers who raise their cows on excellent pasture.The group current sells their milk to the commodity market, but turns some of the cream into this nutty, rich and golden yellow boutique butter, now available at specialty food shops in the borough.
We just got the following note about a National Cash Mob Day meetup this Saturday from contributor Amy Cortese, who wrote a piece for this magazine last summer about the Slow Money movement. Cortese is also the author of Locavesting: the Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It. If you want to participate–it’s Saturday–read on.
The James Beard Foundation has just announced the semi-finalists for its 2012 food journalism awards and we’re thrilled to announce that our former photo editor Michael Harlan Turkell has been nominated for the Visual Storytelling category for three restaurant profiles that appeared in Edible Manhattan.
Those of you who participated in last fall’s Dine Out Irene will be pleased to hear that the organizers of the one-night fundraiser have tallied up the donations from dozens of local participating restaurants and collected a whopping $47,375 for farms impacted by the hurricane.
