A fateful bike route and some Kickstarter seed money yield a vibrant school garden.
A Pint Romance
The women behind Phin & Phebes are partners à la Mode.
Vinegar Hill House
Take a trip to the waterfront to travel back in time.
In Queens, the Cream of the Crop
Tuck into a farm-to-table BBQ, dance under the summer stars and crash in an apple orchard—all without leaving the city.
In Flatbush, a Farmhouse
An almost-forgotten plot brings ancient practices to life for 21st-century visitors.
Businesses Against Fracking in New York: Wake-Up Call for the Nation
Comment | June 19, 2013 By Brian Halweil
New York celebrities and food luminaries are lining up against fracking in the city’s watershed, including a new coalition of food and drink businesses formed to push elected officials to ban fracking in the state, and to send a message to the whole nation.
Take Root is Om…azing.
Comment | June 18, 2013 By Amber Benham
A tasting experience. A fancy 5-course meal. A moment to pause and focus on the beauty of a radish or the lushness of a pile of whipped brown butter as I spread it on a slice of housemade peasant bread. It’s hard to put Take Root into words, but suffice to say, it’s delicious.
This Sunday the New Amsterdam Market Returns
Comment | June 18, 2013 By Gabrielle Langholtz | Photographs by Paul Wagtouicz
Cancel your brunch plans and start fasting Saturday night because this Sunday, June 23rd the New Amsterdam Market is back!
IN OUR CURRENT ISSUE: Phin & Phebes Artisanal Ice Cream
Comment | June 18, 2013 By The Editors | Photographs by Noah Fecks
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.
Eat Great Food and Support Local Farm Education with #farm2nabe
Comment | June 14, 2013 By Carrington Morris | Photographs by courtesy of MARP
Last chance to join #farm2nabe and Dine–Support–Mingle locally, the final in a three-part chef’s series taking place June 18, 5–7pm, at Putnam’s in Clinton Hill. Proceeds go to support local farm education initiatives by City Growers and PS 20 Farms for neighborhood schools.
EDIBLE EVENTS: An Aphrodisiac Cooking Class, Homebrewing How To, and Night of Comedy to Fight Hunger
Comment | June 14, 2013 By The Editors
Hungry? Our events calendar has loads of Edible events around the city, like Gracious Grub NYC’s series of seven unique food and drinks events–everything from homebrewing tutorials to an aphrodisiac cooking class–to help raise funds and awareness for Food Bank for New York City. Here’s what’s happening this week.
My First Meat CSA: Offal and Great
Comment | June 13, 2013 By Amber Benham
This year, in addition to the veggies, fruits and eggs we always get in our CSA, we signed up for a biweekly tub of Ronnybrook butter and a monthly share of “meat” from Mint Creek Farm. I put it in quotes to emphasize how little I knew about the carnivorous delights that awaited me.
EDIBLE GLIMPSES: Brownsville Farm
Comment | June 12, 2013 By The Editors | Photographs by Valery Rizzo
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.