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 [...]
• Strawberry Spice Macaron recipe • Small update from The Brooklyn Paper on the proposed Greenpoint pier / ferry • Free composting workshop at the McKarren Park / Greenpoint Greenmarket this Saturday a.m.; more info on Greenpointers … • Also via Greenpointers: Veronica’s People Club now open. The Franklin Street bar / coffee window and [...]
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 [...]
Whole Foods—the world’s leading retailer of natural and organic foods—has pulled all kombucha from its shelves. More on my other blog …
• NY Health Department Announces Rules for Restaurant Grades • Students nurture dreams of being farmers in urban Miami-Dade • Italy fears for Nutella with new EU food labels • Tim Carney @ Washington Examiner brings up the Greenpoint Food Market and asks if “more corporatism in Brooklyn” will drive folks here to libertarianism • [...]
The Greenpoint Food Market was featured in a New York Times article at the beginning of June. Good for Greenpoint, right? Perhaps not. The market’s vendors operate on a wide spectrum of the professionalism and legality scale. For some, this is a career; for others, it’s a hobby, a community-bonding activity, a stepping-stone to bigger things, [...]
Is that a banana in your pocket, or did you just drink some of Brooklyn’s “Magic Power Coffee?” INZ Distributors Inc./Magic Power Coffee Inc. of Brooklyn, NY announced today that it is conducting a voluntary nationwide recall of the dietary supplement product sold under the name, Magic Power Coffee. The Company has been informed by [...]
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 [...]
Through cumulative recent-birthday power, this household has found itself in possession of a slew of new food- and gardening-related books, sending us into a tizzy of re-working our summer reading lists & experimenting with new recipes. And as long as we’re making all that effort, we might as well share it with you, yes? So, [...]
June is the beginning of my year. New York manifests itself as a Technicolor utopia of sunbathing book readers, of shirtless banjo boys, of the girls with ribboned straw hats. We’re children again. Life is patiently weaving daisy chains and licking coconut yogurt cones for a heated moment. Everyone is so nice, we’ll say. With [...]
I am this. close. to getting out of the city. On a Bolt Bus somewhere on the near outskirts of Manhattan, heading to Boston for the night before taking another bus and then a ferry to Martha’s Vineyard. I’ve never really been on the New England coast before, so I have no idea what to [...]
Back in the 60s and 70s young people migrated back to the countryside to make a go of farming. Novella Carpenter’s parents were part of that movement. But it didn’t last. People found that growing food is very hard and rural life can be extremely isolating. The motives of today’s generation of farmers are different, [...]
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 [...]
* 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 [...]
It had broad bipartisan support and backing from the White House, and it was expected to come to the Senate floor before the Memorial Day recess. But in a letter to Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), the chairman and ranking minority member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, the [...]
The grave annoyance of procuring a more substantial income has violently torn me away from the comforts of our home, pushed me onto the G-train, and slapped me onto the streets of midtown Manhattan. Most of my theatre writing pursuits send me there, too. For both, I am so very grateful for the opportunity. But [...]
* Greenpoint Soup Kitchen Garden, a volunteer-run community garden housed in the backyard of the Greenpoint Reformed Church, is holding an informational/organizing meeting this Saturday from 4-5 p.m. in the backyard of 136 Milton Street. Looking to set up volunteer schedules for gardening, watering. * Food Safety Bill (S510) debate in the Senate pushed back [...]
We’ve been noticed, darlings! Perhaps recession solidarity is behind overalls percolating on the street and trickling down from the runway. Long associated with farmers, Rosie the Riveter and OshKosh B’gosh babies, the uniform is having a moment: the blog Brooklyn Home Companion has declared that “2010 is the Year of the Overall.” The blog, chronicler [...]
Goodness, gracious, why aren’t more people talking about this? Meat, poultry industries await new antitrust rules: Federal regulators are set to release the most sweeping antitrust rules covering the meat industry in decades, potentially altering the balance of power between meat companies and the farmers who raise their animals. At issue is how much power [...]
NY Magazine says Greenpoint, Brooklyn (my home sweet home) is NYC’s 5th “most livable” neighborhood: Ah, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. A neighborhood at once blessed and cursed. Upside: It borders the East River and has glorious views of Manhattan’s spires. Downside: Much of the waterfront is blocked off by a grim stretch of decaying industrial sites. Upside: [...]
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 [...]