While other great food cities might rely on their ethnic communities (like Miami’s Calle Ocho) or age-old culinary traditions (New Orleans’ creole cooking), Portland’s status as a food capital is homegrown—it stems directly from its wealth of fresh, local ingredients.
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Chef Patti Jackson traded fresh pasta and rabbit ragu for eight months of brown bread, Irish cheddar and perfectly pulled pints.
Enterprising ocean liners lured transatlantic travelers with on-board gardens,
below-deck wine cellars and hundreds of pounds of tongue.
A Wall Street lawyer forsakes finance and finds that treasure really does grow on trees.
For one special night–“Absurdity at the McKittrick Hotel”–the folks at Underground Eats turned the McKittrick Hotel into a Depression-era speakeasy, complete with flappers, period cocktails and dancing.
If a peek at Dean & Deluca’s Easter catalog had you yearning to taste Greek traditional foods, there’s a reason.
Don’t forget! Tickets are on sale (and discounted if you buy them online) to the only travel event we know of designed for people obsessed with where their food comes from.
Road Trip: Taste L.I.’s Best Small Food Producers and Craft Beer Culture at “The Quarterly Carousal”
Calling all beer aficionados willing to hop on the LIRR for a good brew. Edible East End (the shore-based sister to this magazine) and the Brooklyn Brewery invite you to a free party at the Bellmore, Long Island craft beer bar Effin Gruven on Thursday, April 26, to celebrate the Nassau and Suffolk County rollout of the latest Brewmaster Reserve release from the brewery.
Once school is out for the summer, even the most dedicated after-school farmer will turn to sugary popsicles and video games in the comfort of an air-conditioned living room if left to his or her own devices. The good news is parents looking to avoid this now have a plethora of summer camps geared toward food, cooking and farming to choose from.
As the weekend officially begins with a bout of chilly grey weather, we thought we’d pass on an icewine and cider cocktail recipe Zavatto sent us from Nick Venditti at Frankly Wines on West Broadway, which he created using Finger Lakes spirits for NY Drinks NY week. Says Zavatto: “I’d never in a million years have thought that icewine and gin would be so, so pretty together, but holy cow–DELICIOUS! And very dangerous.”
Yesterday was the big NY Drinks NY tasting at the Astor Center, and it was so cool to see that it sold out. But after a recent trek I took to the Finger Lakes, I’m not that surprised.
Along with mouth-watering food displays, festive red lanterns made in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture and cherry blossoms suspended in ice decorated Grand Central Station’s Vanderbilt Hall last night, as part of the gala to kick off Japan Week.
