After a year of eating wild foods, winter brings the season to drink them.
In Season
I’ve been thumbing through the short, final chapters of Joan Gussow’s most recent book, Growing, Older. They’re humorous even if the themes include dying, lifelong regrets, sea level rise and climate change. The later geological preoccupations are shared by both of us—we both garden in floodprone areas—and the balmy, 60-degree afternoons this past weekend reminded me that the future-oriented predictions of climate scientists seem more and more to have arrived in the here and now. (And, my colleagues at Edible Brooklyn tell me, the annual winter festival at Prospect Park was just cancelled, due to weather too warm to make snow.)
As the New Year approaches, with its cavalcade of “best of” and “top 10” lists, we invite our readers to vote in a very Edible way–for your favorite farmers, brewers, bartenders and food systems innovators as part of Edible Communities Sixth Annual Local Hero Awards. The process is already underway and ends this Friday, December 16, so nominate your favorite farmer, chef, eatery, food shop, food artisan and non-profit now.
It ain’t over till it’s over, sister. There is still gardening to be done. September…
Ok, people, get your appetites ready for Eat Drink Local Week, which kicks off tomorrow night at a very special cast of restaurants on the South and North Forks (and all across the Empire State). Each of the following restaurants has put together a special Eat Drink Local prix fixe menu to highlight the seven […]
To help celebrate its 100th anniversary, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has gifted itself a brand…
