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A scene from the Underground Food Collective Dinner at The Brooklyn Kitchen last year.

Tonight, Tomorrow or Monday: Go to the Underground Food Collective Dinner at Sweet Deliverance

Comment | February 10, 2012 | By | Photographs by Mark Dohm

A few months ago we had the pleasure of attending one in a series of pop-up dinner parties at the Atlantic Avenue catering kitchen run by Kelly Geary, the cook and caterer behind the farm-centric company Sweet Deliverance and the author of the canning and pickling book Tart and Sweet. This weekend those pop-ups are back in action, and for the second time Geary is sharing her stoves with the Underground Food Collective from Madison, Wisc.

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One of last year's winners, SCRATCHBread bakes from a storefront in Bed-Stuy, where they help train kids from the nabe to bake.

It’s the Real Brooklyn Best-Ofs; Vote for Your Edible Local Hero By Friday

Comment | December 13, 2011 | By | 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.

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Neo-Bubby: Dori Fern will grate spuds by hand when she goes up against 15 professionals at the Latke Festival.

Perfect Potato Pancake Alert: Brooklyn Latke Fest Announces Chefs/Winners

2 comments so far | December 5, 2011 | By

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.)

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Prepped puntarelle for sale in Italy. (Photo from italiannotebook.com; where you read more about this and other things Italian.

Our Antidote to Excess: Roman’s Puntarelle con Salsa di Acciughe

2 comments so far | November 28, 2011 | By | Photographs by www.italiannotebook.com/

Years ago, long before I’d ever been to Italy, I found a copy of the 2001 cookbook Saveur Cooks Authentic Italian: Savoring the Recipes and Traditions of the World’s Favorite Cuisine. I took to the tome like I was a 13-year-old who stumbled across some dimestore bodice ripper. In other words, I devoured every page. And in particular, I was taken with a salad called Puntarelle con Salsa di Acciughe.

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In Honor of Thanksgiving, A Clinton Hill Chef Makes Pemmican from the Native American Plains

Comment | November 18, 2011 | By | Photographs by Stephanie De Rouge

Be sure to take a peek at the current Edible segment airing on NY1 today and Sunday. (And online right here in perpetuity.) Based on a story in the current issue of our sister pub Edible Manhattan, it’s on Clinton Hill chef Matt Weingarten’s take on the Native American snack called pemmican, which has historically made use of both fall harvest foods on the Great Plains and a successful hunt for buffalo. It’s kind of like a cross between a granola bar and beef jerky, and each Thanksgiving Weingarten serves it at Inside Park, the restaurant he helms on Park Avenue and 50th Street.

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