Hungry? Our events calendar is packed full of Edible events around the city, like Food Karma Project’s Meat Week, a carnivorous celebration of sustainability featuring tastings, parties, butchering and cooking demos, market tours, and panels (proceeds of the events will go to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts). Here’s what’s happening this week.
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Everywhere we look it seems people are pitching in–helping neighbors throw out damaged furniture and scour their floors, donating clothes and homemade meals, or fundraising to buy the newly homeless undies and blankets. If you’re looking for more ways to help our neighbors in need after Hurricane Sandy, here are some worthy (and delicious) options.
When Hurricane Sandy’s surge waters attacked the Brooklyn water front, they didn’t just threaten human lives. More than a dozen hives on a pier in the Navy Yard served as the home base for NYC’s largest commercial apiary, the result of years of effort and a successful $22,000 Kickstarter project by Brooklyn Grange. By the time Sandy’s waters had receded, only a few of the hives remained. Most had floated away.
The folks at The Brooklyn Kitchen and The Meat Hook have put out a call to help our neighbors out in the Rockaways. “The boardwalk is gone. 111 homes in Breezy Point are gone. The people there need our help,” they write.
If you’re like many of us that have spent the last few days high and dry with power in interior Brooklyn, the images of Hurricane Sandy you’ve seen on TV might still feel a bit surreal. But for our friends in Red Hook, it’s been anything but.
With Sandy’s winds and surges gone, St. John Frizell, owner of Red Hook’s much beloved cafe and bar Fort Defiance, must contend with the buckets (gallons? tons? How does one quantify a flooded room?) of water left in the basement.
In light of the water-filled homes and debris-covered streets in Manhattan this morning, we at Edible are feeling very grateful. We have water, food, and dry homes to keep warm in. But many of our neighbors in New York City, New Jersey and out on Long Island aren’t so lucky today.
Martinican codfish fritters, Portuguese bacalhau, Bajan plantains, Ukranian pierogi, Long Island wine, Irish cheeses–nope, it’s not our food bucket list. We actually ate all that–and more–last week at Edible Escape, our global travel tasting party at the gorgeous Angel Orensanz Foundation.
Hungry? Our events calendar is packed full of Edible events around the city, like Brooklyn Wort, the borough’s homebrew competition hosted by Brooklyn Homebrew and Sycamore. Here’s what’s happening this week.
George Weld, chef/owner of the restaurants Parish Hall and egg in Williamsburg, wrote an awesome account of his trip to Ronnybrook farm in search of manure–yep, manure–last spring. Now he’s running the upcoming marathon to raise money for Wellness in the Schools (which we covered in our magazine here), a not-for-profit that, among other things, aims to improve school food.
We Rub You is the eyebrow-raising name of a new line of mouthwatering marinades made by Texas-raised, Brooklyn-based, Korean-American sisters Janet Chung and Ann Chung Mellman. The sauces bottle childhood melting-pot memories, when their mom made bulgogi sandwiches on white bread from the supermarket.
Smorgasburg, the famed Brooklyn Flea food market where we get our weekly pupusa and artisanal popsicle fix, is partnering with Whole Foods for a one-month experiment in delicious local food. Together they’ve curated a group of vendors to setup shop for one month at the Bowery store, which opens today with Cemita’s Mexican Sandwiches and will serve lunch and dinner 7 days a week.
