An ex-Wall Streeter spawns a shell company.
Melissa Clark
One of the country’s most beloved food writers is Brooklyn-born, -bred and -based.
Mermaid’s Garden
A CSA with fins.
The River Café
A watershed moment.
EDIBLE EVENTS: A Porgy Lunch and Sustainable Seafood Supper Club
Comment | May 17, 2013 By The Editors
Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like this Sustainable Seafood Supper Club at Brooklyn Commune. Here’s what’s happening this week.
Craft Beer on My Mind
Comment | May 16, 2013 By Amber Benham
As I sit here, sipping this Summer Weizen Ale from Smuttynose Brewing Company and feeling a heck of a lot better about this work day, I’ll tell you reasons why you, my fellow suds lovers, should be drinking beer soon, too.
EDIBLE GLIMPSES: Organic Valley Farmers Visit Students at The Earth School
Comment | May 15, 2013 By Chelsey Simpson
Susan Hardy and Maureen Knapp, Organic Valley dairy farmers from upstate New York, have formed an ongoing relationship with The Earth School, an eco-minded public school on East 6th Street. Two weeks ago, the farmers paid the schoolkids a visit.
Coming Up in June: Eat-Drink-Local Week and Pass the Paella
Comment | May 14, 2013 By The Editors | Photographs by Santiago Suarez
We’re thrilled to announce our fourth annual Eat Drink Local week, an eight-day locavore love fest for our foodshed celebrated by Edibles around the tri-state area. For one week, starting June 22nd, we urge you to show some love for our local food system by dining out, cooking in and enjoying local, seasonal ingredients.
IN OUR CURRENT ISSUE: Flatbush Fig Farm
Comment | May 14, 2013 By The Editors | Photographs by Nelson Ryland
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.
And the Winner of the I Love NY Cookbook Is…
Comment | May 13, 2013 By The Editors
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.
EDIBLE EVENTS: A Half-Pig Butchering Demo and A Soup Kitchen Fundraiser
Comment | May 10, 2013 By The Editors
Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like tomorrow’s pig butchering demo at Jimmy’s No. 43 where farmer Michael Klampfer from Møsefund Mangalista Farm will break down half a Mangalista hog. Light lunch to follow. Here’s what’s happening this week.
EDIBLE GLIMPSES: The River Café
Comment | May 9, 2013 By The Editors | Photographs by Vicky Wasik and The River Cafe
More than three decades ago and long before Brooklyn was a culinary destination, The River Café ushered in a new movement in dining: local food. Now, having suffered millions of dollars in damage during Hurricane Sandy, the restaurant’s owner, Michael “Buzzy” O’Keeffe, vows he will rebuild.