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The Drive-In Dinner

Hear that? It’s the sound of food trucks rolling to a stop at the Brooklyn Brewery for the Drive-In Dinner. We challenge you to find another event in Brooklyn (or Manhattan or Queens or Staten Island) where you can get a 5-course meal from food trucks with beer pairings from the Brooklyn Brewery…and all for $40.

Ingredient Driven

They sharpened their skills in the locavoric art of Find the Best Ingredients—be that a cheese, a cured meat, a root or tuber—And Do Very Little to Them.

Brooklyn Food Conference: The Sequel

This is not your usual foodie fest. Though there will be great eats, (under-$10 lunches from some of New York’s best caterers, including the Green Table), this conference isn’t about sake tastings, cacao comparisons or kombucha care.

Better Butter and the Commodity Dairy Market: A Q&A with Madison County Agricultural Development

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.

Saturday is Nat’l Cash Mob Day, with a Park Slope Meetup Planned for 4 pm

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.