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This nonprofit is bringing holiday traditions and cheer to homebound all over the city.
A look into one Brooklynite’s weekly soup dinners.
While the results are equal parts factual and fanciful, they all conjure up the stories of bygone Brooklyn.
Farm to cocktail takes on a whole new meaning with this potato crop.
How one bakery is sharing a Mexican tradition with the whole city.
Each December the Stone Barns Center up in Westchester hosts a two-day, sold-out “Young Farmers Conference” that draws hundreds of new-to-farming folks and gives them a chance to hear inspiring speakers, learn hands-on methods, exchange ideas, make new friends, envision policy changes, break bread together and generally suck the marrow out of their 48 hours at the Center. The conference was held last week, and Henry Sweets, a 29-year-old gardener and freelance writer from the Ohio River Valley, attended. He spent the past summer as a field vegetable apprentice at Stone Barns, and is currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio while he plots (pun intended) his return to New York. While we’d like to note that unlike Henry we love vegetables just as much as bacon, we present Henry’s report from the literal fields. By the way, should you be planning an agricultural project here in Brooklyn, we’d gladly pass along his information.
From a gingerbread workshops to Belgian beers, here are a couple of events going on around NYC soon that we think you’ll enjoy. Be sure to check out the citywide events calendar kept by Edible Manhattan, our sister publication for more suggestions, or if you’ve got a food event you think you’d like to add to the list, let us know at info@ediblebrooklyn.com.
With apologies to the New Yorker, we’re pleased as Hot Gin Punch to present the Hendrick’s Gin cartoon caption contest. With help from this artisanal, small-batch gin, we’re offering three lucky readers who can best caption the image above two seats apiece to an invitation-only Edible Brooklyn: The Cookbook dinner inside “The Hendrick’s Enchanted Forest,” the pretty awesome indoor forest installation they’re bringing to Brooklyn for the very first time.
Nothing beats a homemade gift during the holidays. It saves the giver the stress associated with holiday shopping–but more importantly it endears givers to receivers with the thought of the time and effort that went into that one-of-a-kind gift. So get crafty! Start by hitting the 7th Annual BUST Magazine Craftacular and Food Fair at 82 Mercer in Manhattan on Saturday, December 10 from 11 am to 8 pm and Sunday, December 11 from 11 am to 7 pm.
Beer + Food + Film + Whiskey + Pickles + Jerky + Cocktails=What’s Ahead on The Edible Event Calendar
From a pairing at Brooklyn Oeneology wine shop with everybody’s favorite snack (pickles) to a beer-centric movie night, here are a couple of events going on around the borough soon that we think you’ll enjoy. Be sure to check out the citywide events calendar Edible Manhattan keeps for more suggestions–and don’t forget to mark yours for February 28, which will be the first Edible event of 2012: It’s Good Spirits, a celebration of seasonal cocktails and local liquors. (Hurry on over here to purchase your $35 Early Bird ticket before they’re all sold out.)
From our point of view, it’s appropriate that The Gowanus Canal Conservancy is hosting a Winter Festival this Saturday rather than an ordinary old summer shindig. Everybody has one of those, and it somehow seems fitting to raise funds for a funky little overlooked waterway by throwing a dinner party and concert at a time when most waterfronts are shuttering up for the cold months ahead. But Brooklyn’s only canal has always done its own thing and been its own kind of place.
