Introducing Subscriber Benefits: A Local Food Deal You Can’t Refuse
Comment | November 23, 2012 | By Brian Halweil
With our new subscriber benefits program, now is the perfect time to introduce someone you love to the Edible community.
Recent Posts by Brian Halweil
Your Most Meaty Conversation Starter and Shopping Guide for July Fourth Cooking
Comment | July 1, 2012 | By Brian Halweil
For Independence Day menu inspiration, consider “The Kindest Cut of Meat is Ground,” in today’s Times, where I argue that ground is “the most sustainable, economical, gastronomically flexible and morally responsible cut of meat.”
Show Us Your Porgies, Radishes, Goat Cheese, and Rose for Eat Drink Local Now
Comment | June 26, 2012 | By Brian Halweil
Usually we’re advocates of device-free dining. But that was before the #eatdrinklocal Twitter stream started buzzing with pictures, recipes and farmstand tips on how our readers are eating, shopping and dining during Eat Drink Local.
Anne Saxelby, Dairy Queen
1 comment | June 15, 2012 | By Brian Halweil | Photographs by Scott Gordon Bleicher
The biggest thing in American cheese since sliced bread.
Happy Ducks, Obsolete Root Cellars, and Other Signs of the Warmest January on Record
Comment | January 31, 2012 | By Brian Halweil
I’ve been thumbing through the short, final chapters of Joan Gussow’s most recent book, Growing, Older. They’re humorous even if the themes include dying, lifelong regrets, sea level rise and climate change. The later geological preoccupations are shared by both of us—we both garden in floodprone areas—and the balmy, 60-degree afternoons this past weekend reminded me that the future-oriented predictions of climate scientists seem more and more to have arrived in the here and now. (And, my colleagues at Edible Brooklyn tell me, the annual winter festival at Prospect Park was just cancelled, due to weather too warm to make snow.)
Slow Wine Launches Its Cross-Country Tour in New York City
1 comment | December 16, 2011 | By Brian Halweil
For two decades the international movement to preserve taste called Slow Food has produced a guide to Italian wine in conjunction with Gambero Rosso– an Italian Zagat that puts out food and wine guides and produces massive wine tastings around the world. Now, to encourage a new era of sustainabile wine sipping , Slow Food has rolled out a wine classification system and bringing it to America for the first time, along with a sampling of Italian Slow Wine-designated producers that will visit New York on January 30. (Get your tickets here.)
It’s the Real Brooklyn Best-Ofs; Vote for Your Edible Local Hero By Friday
Comment | December 13, 2011 | By Brian Halweil | Photographs by Michael Harlan Turkell
As the New Year approaches, with its cavalcade of “best of” and “top 10″ lists, we invite our readers to vote in a very Edible way–for your favorite farmers, brewers, bartenders and food systems innovators as part of Edible Communities Sixth Annual Local Hero Awards. The process is already underway and ends this Friday, December 16, so nominate your favorite farmer, chef, eatery, food shop, food artisan and non-profit now.
Perfect Potato Pancake Alert: Brooklyn Latke Fest Announces Chefs/Winners
2 comments so far | December 5, 2011 | By Brian Halweil
Now that we’ve tested our spud-mashing skills at Thanksgiving, it’s time for those of us celebrating Hanukah to turn our attention to the potato pancake. Specifically, the third annual Latke Festival Edible Brooklyn is putting on with Great Performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on December 19th. (If you haven’t snagged your ticket here, now’s the time.)