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.
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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.
There are a variety of ways to show support for your favorite causes. You can run for cancer, sign a petition against fracking, and now, there’s poetry slamming to raise awareness for food inequality.
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.
Our reduced subscription prices–an effort to help stimulate the economy (and your appetite)–have been so popular this summer that we are extending the deal for one more week, until September 16. What’s more, all subscribers get a discount code for all Edible events, including our October 17 travel tasting, Edible Escape. Buy two tickets and you’ve basically saved more than the cost of your subscription.
In our magazine, Rachel Wharton takes a closer look at Purple Yam, the sublime Filipino restaurant on Ditmas Park’s up-and-coming Cortelyou Road. As she puts it, “Besa and Dorotan may have both grown up in the Philippines, but their restaurant is to Filipino food what Pies ’n’ Thighs is to chicken and biscuits, what Franny’s and the Frankies are to Italian food: kind of like your mother’s cooking, but only if she once worked the line in a four-star restaurant.”
Come sample flavors from around the world with us next month at Edible Escape and be entered to win a trip for two to Austin, all expenses paid.
Hungry? Our events calendar is packed full of Edible events around the city, like this crazy delicious dessert popup where you can learn how to launch a food startup while enjoying cool treats like cherry pomegranate ice pops, black sesame ice cream, raspberry cilantro sorbet, and mango-laced soft serve–all to benefit Wellness in Schools. Here’s what else is happening this week.
