Recovering from early summer’s Great Kombucha Rapture, Vibranz kombucha is returning to stores, AP reports. And the good news is that Vibranz is raw, probiotic and under 0.5% alcohol (I was a bit worried that only pseudo-kombucha like the kind being made by Red Bull would get back into the national chains in a timely manner). GT [...]
Mark my words: In Sex and the City 4, the girls are gonna do the same shit again in a different country or location, but SJP’s going to be chomping down on a macraron. No, not the tiny little Jewish coconut kind; the fancy French kind (more about the difference here) popular at frou-frou bakeries [...]
No sooner had I first read the word ‘jicama’ this summer than a recipe I wanted to make called for it. Until this point, I couldn’t have told you if jicama was a vegetable, a female name, or a Mexican city. Looking at the vegetable itself isn’t much help, either; the jicama I bought looked [...]
Last week, I successfully sprouted some mixed sprouts for the first time. On my initial try, after a few days, I ended up with a moldy-smelling mess instead of fresh sprouts because I didn’t realize that—unlike when soaking, say, quinoa or beans—you don’t leave the seeds submerged in water. If you’re new to sprouting, or [...]
We wanted to share with you a new report we published on Thursday which concludes that the vast majority of New York City street fairs are bland and repetitive. Our report features ideas for improving these staples of summer from 25 innovative New Yorkers, including the founder of Chowhound, the organizer of Red Hook Food [...]
FreshDirect, the major grocery-delivery company servicing the NYC area, has announced that it’s significantly upping its local-food offerings. Cool Hunting reports: The online grocer will travel to over 30 farms found within 300 miles of NYC to gather goods like Grafton Village cheeses, Nature’s Yoke eggs, Wickham’s Fruit Farm tomatoes, Brooklyn Brewery beer and much [...]
Ibsen in Bushwick … why not? Saint Jude of the Cats is putting on Lady from the Sea (Henrik Ibsen’s “quirky 1888 drama of necromancy, gender politics, and family dysfunction”) at Chez Bushwick this weekend (Thurs., Fri. & Sat. @ 8 p.m.; 304 Boerum Street #11). If it’s good, I’m pulling for Chekhov’s “The Cherry [...]
Many vegetables continue to ripen after they are picked. Enzymes in the vegetables continue ripening, converting the sugar into starch. If you just pick vegetables, cut them up and freeze them, they’ll taste like cardboard within a couple of months. To stop that, you need to heat them quickly and then stop the cooking quickly [...]
I spent what seemed like a billion hours hawking nut pate and iced coffee at the Greenpoint Food Market last Saturday. Which was a wonderful way to meet even more lovely people doing groovy food things in these parts; sample a billion cupcakes (and a macaroon, but more on this later); and generally taste, see [...]
• M. Stone jewelry sale & rooftop gathering Saturday. 252 Norman Avenue, 3-7 p.m. keg beer + necklaces & earrings that look like the west • May’s Greenpoint Foodmarket is also Saturday afternoon. Church of the Messiah (basement), 129 Russell Street, 12-5 p.m. From creator Joann Kim: The market is hosted by the Church of [...]
Or “I ate at every restaurant in Greenpoint and Williamsburg this weekend. Go on and ogle that pulled pork slider from Teddy’s Bar and Grill. [Photo courtesy of the Goddamn Cobras.] Taste Williamsburg Greenpoint was this past Sunday (if you did not happen to notice the raucous crowds feasting hungrily on North 11th) to benefit Northside [...]
Wanna be a part of history? At this slideshow potluck we will attempt to claim the title of The Guinness Book of World Records for the Largest Potluck on Earth. Who do we have to beat? A potluck that brought together 602 individual dishes in Phoenix, AZ and was sponsored by Promise margarine. This potluck [...]
I’m on a week-long visit to our nation’s capital (a city which, a long long 7 months ago, I called home). There are many things to love about DC, but the food is not one of them. It’s not so much that things are very bad, so much as nothing is that good. But Friday [...]
Brooklyn Home Companion took a short vacation to New Paltz this weekend. It is a place we visit every summer to revisit camping under stars, practice our rock climbing, swim in glorious waterfalls, and quietly weave daisy chains. Depending on where you are here—the earth smells like fresh vegetables, neighboring clouds, brewing yerba mate, the [...]
* The Greenpoint Public Library is looking for local artists for its spring benefit art show/silent auction. Deadline: April30. * Roberta’s wood-fired pizzeria in Bushwick has a new bun in the over – literally (hahahahaha. it’s the kind of morning for bad puns): “We’ve learned a lot working with small accounts and now we’re going [...]
I’ve been achey & allergy-ridden & coughing something silly the past two days. And yesterday, all I could convince myself to eat was canned soup (ugh) and leftover pizza – not exactly a fount of nutrients. But now I’ve been to the grocery store. And I’ve got my appetite back. Today, I will maximize nutrients! [...]
Says organizer Joann Kim: April 10th, we will present the next market with uncontainable excitement as we present SPRING AWAKENING. Join us for a hippiefied day of flowers, patchouli, butterflies and eat some vegan granola bars! This just might be our BIGGEST market day yet, the church will be PACKED with all sorts of goodies [...]
Start with: 1 Medium Spaghetti Squash Cut in half, remove seeds Smear top and inside of squash halves with olive oil, lightly. Add a little salt. And a little honey inside. Cook at 450 for about 45 minutes. Check after 30 minutes or so (inside should be easily penetrable, like a baked potato). After cooking, [...]
AP ran an article today titled “Farmers group touts lentils, other healthy legumes.” Lentil and other legume farmers … (have) formed a new marketing venture aimed at promoting the health and other benefits of lentils, dry peas, garbanzo beans and other so-called “pulse” crops. I often think I should eat more lentils, but I’m not [...]
Continuing what I began yesterday … Breakfast: Coffee, apple Lunch: pre-packaged vegan/macrobiotic dumplings sauteed with fresh carrots, cabbage, olive oil, cashews and clementine oranges Snack: fresh celery/carrot/beat/ginger juice, Raw Revolution bar, small soy latte Dinner: miso soup, salad, teriyaki tofu with brown rice from the place that used to be Wasabi on Bedford Ave (not [...]
Rooftop Farms co-founder Annie Novak will participating in EDIBLE ESTATES: Attack on the Front Lawn, a conversation about growing food in public spaces on Thursday, April 8th at WNYC’s The Greene Space. [44 Charlton Street (at Varick Street)] For EDIBLE ESTATES: Attack on the Front Lawn, Annie will be joined by Manhattan Borough President Scott [...]
While I’ve still been eating healthier lately than I ever have in my life, I’ve found myself slipping a bit, making too many allowances for just a bit of cheese, a little dairy, a drunkenly-consumed hamburger. To curb this before it gets out of control and I fall back on thinking Triscuits with Laughing Cow [...]
Everything I read online about starting seeds had me convinced that only, say, 1 in 35 seeds I planted would actually sprout. For basil, I lined up a whole tray of peat pots (18 total) and sprinkled each one with a couple seeds and … they have all sprouted. I now have 18 pots of [...]
Lots of food policy, agriculture news this week: * Pittsburgh considers reining in urban agriculture, beekeeping and chicken raising. Says the mayor’s spokesperson, “Anytime you see something growing and expanding and there are no rules, you need to regulate it.” Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear …(but darling for the way she manages [...]
Cobra Pate featured on Greenpoint Food Market blog: What the hell is cobra pate? Awesome sauce for your next ninja bedtime love fiesta. How’d you come up with the name? The Goddamn Cobras’ hot films don’t make themseles – this is our preferred fuel source. Why the decision to share your product at GFM? Why [...]