In our current issue, Michael Moss, author of Salt Sugar Fat, dishes with our editor Gabrielle Langholtz on processed food, artisans in Brooklyn and what’s for dinner.
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Six months into a new relationship, lifelong ice cream lovers Jess Eddy and Crista Freeman launched their very own line of artisanal pints–Phin & Phebes. Inspired by childhood memories and vacations of yore, the dairilicious duo creates intensely flavored scoops.
Biking home through Brownsville, Nora Painten couldn’t help noticing an overgrown vacant lot on Rockaway Avenue, just across from P.S. 323, soaking up the sun. Lots of paperwork and $24,282 through Kickstarter later, Painten now runs a vibrant school garden in the space, teaching little fingers how to plant garlic and teenagers how to turn compost, among other garden tasks.
I’m ashamed to say I can’t remember the first meal I ate at Diner, but there have been plenty since that I’ll never forget.
An almost-forgotten plot brings ancient practices to life for 21st-century visitors.
The man who defined the Brooklyn food scene—and then redefined it—is at it again.
A fig tree does indeed grow in Brooklyn. Lots do, actually, largely thanks to fig farmer Nelson Ryland who runs a family business selling fig tree cuttings out of his beautiful Victorian house in Ditmas Park.
Brian Luster! We loved his photo of New York ramps, ready to be cooked. Something about the beauty of the bouquet of ramp leaves, the freshness of a local ingredient and the wine in the background (who doesn’t enjoy a glass of wine while cooking?) made us smile.
Mark Usewicz and Bianca Piccillo, the husband-and-wife team behind Brooklyn’s very first community-supported fishery, Mermaid’s Garden, are winning hearts (and stomachs) with their weekly deliveries of spectacularly fresh seafood.
This food book fair is so far up our alley, we wish we could say we’d planned it! The roster of participants includes countless Edible contributors, plus chefs, editors, bloggers and other movers and shakers in the food movement.
When you meet Keith Swenson, co-owner of Righteous Foods, a Fort Greene–based oyster delivery business, you’d never guess he’s relatively new to the bivalve biz. The former Wall Street trader shucks oysters bare-handed and talks seafood policy like someone who’s been wearing waders his whole life.
