1 comment | December 17, 2012 | By Amber Benham | Photographs by Amy Gray
As an enlightened eater, going out for sushi–once a weekly indulgence–has become a guilt-inducing task I try to avoid. Gone are the days of blindly consuming shrimp tempura and eel avocado rolls. Spicy tuna? Forget it. But this week, with a little help from my local Greenmarket, we made a sushi feast even a locavore could be proud of.
1 comment | December 7, 2012 | By Amber Benham | Photographs by Amber Benham
Codfish is a humble fish, gracing the table in simple dishes around the world. But despite its seeming ubiquity, there isn’t much cod left in the oceans. Last week we attended part of a 2-day workshop at the OPENrestaurant at Parsons The New School for Design dedicated entirely to tracing the history of the rise and decline of the cod.
Comment | May 9, 2011 | By Brian Halweil
While our fingers remain crossed for all our chef and food biz friends whose awards are announced tonight the doling out of the The James Beard Foundation’s journalism awards a couple of nights ago was a joyous, memorable occasion. Not just because the Awards Committee bestowed its first ever Publication of the Year honors on [...]