This month our beautiful digital edition includes freebies like a recipe for espresso-maple bacon from Toby’s Estate Coffee, recipes for fried kale with fish sauce, bacon and mint from the chef of one of Portland’s hottest restaurants, instructions for how to grill vension and cook an elk steak, and Gabe’s Mom’s Clams Casino, not to mention plenty of extra photos from Cafe Glechik in Sheepshead Bay.
More and more chefs in the city have started house-curing meats like soppressata and guanciale, but they don’t want to talk about it. Read our story to find out why.
From August to early November, autumn-olive trees around the city are loaded with red currant-like berries, easily identifiable by their silver-stippled skins. In our current issue, Marie Viljoen shares tips for where to find the trees, when to taste the berries and how to turn the sweetly tart fruit into luscious autumn-olive jam.
It’s too soon to tell, but the tides, they are a changing. Sales of cider were up 23 percent last year and big beer manufacturers are buying stakes in the emerging market, says David Flaherty, operations and bar manager at Hearth and Terroir Wine Bars and a blogger of all things alcoholic. And at least for one day the humble apple ruled the roost at the Astor Center.
Get ready to tour the world with your fork at Edible Escape, our second annual travel tasting party next month. We’ve lined up an exotic menu featuring flavors from around the globe, as far as Japan and as near as Long Island.
Hungry? Our events calendar is packed full of Edible events around the city, like The Brooklyn Local–a day-long, family-friendly artisanal food fest at Brooklyn Bridge Park to help City Harvest feed more hungry New Yorkers. Think great food (over 75 artisanal vendors will offer delectable fare), great family fun (an interactive Kids Zone will feature children’s activities and entertainment) and a Happy Hour Tent (stop by for beer, wine, special tastings and musical entertainment). Here’s what’s happening this week.
“When Brooklyn’s own Tracie MacMillan set out to investigate the dietary disparities between the nation’s rich and poor for her new book The American Way of Eating, she she got her hands dirty—literally.” Read more about MacMillan’s foray into the darker side of American food in our current issue.
Join us on Tuesday, September 18th from 6 to 8 pm at Cider Salon, a public tasting event previewing the hard ciders that will also featured during Cider Week, October 12-21. In addition to hard cider from more than a dozen regional cider producers, the Cider Salon will feature local cheeses from Murray’s Cheese and Cabot Cheese, and breads from Orwashers.
The Mast Brothers, a pair of celebrated chocolatiers based in Williamsburg, literally set sail and lugged nearly 20 tons of organic cocoa beans from the Dominican Republic in an effort to be “oil-free.”
At Edible Escape–our travel tasting party next month–we plan to wow your tastebuds with some worldly flavors. We’ve got a killer lineup, including food from Ukraine, olive oil from Spain, wines from Portugal, high-class Italian fare and so much more. But as much as we love to travel the world with our forks at the ready, we don’t want to overlook the bounty of flavor here at home.
For Michael Hurwitz, director of GrowNYC’s Greenmarket program, the arrival of September means it’s time for two things: harvest and football. Put those two together and you get Sunday Short Ribs in Cider and Tomatoes, which he serves during halftime.
Hungry? Our events calendar is packed full of Edible events around the city, like today’s Honey Day at the Highline where you can watch bees making the sweet stuff and sample honey from the best beekeepers in the city. Plus, kids can learn how to make their own honey-granola topped parfait. Here’s what’s happening this week.
