When Eleanor and Albert Leger’s kids went off to college, the duo bought a dairy farm in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and set about making a relatively new drink: ice cider. Unlike it’s cousins ice wine and applejack, ice cider has been around fewer than two decades. The sweet, apple-based drink was invented in Canada, where frigid temperatures make easy work of freezing the apple juice that serves as the base for the cider.
Robert Burns Night—held each January 25 in honor of the 1759 birth of Scotland’s most famous poet–is a spirited celebration filled with whiskey, haggis, kilts and poetry. Read more about the annual fest here in our current issue.
In honor of the Mayans (and perhaps to celebrate that they were wrong about that whole world-is-ending thing), we’ve lined up an evening’s worth of lessons from some local Mexican food experts. Join us on Wednesday, February 13th for How to…Prepare a Mexican Feast at the Brooklyn Brewery.
Winter produce doesn’t have to dreary. With recipes like this one for rich roasted parsnip and sweet potato soup from Karol Lu, a competitive cooking veteran, you can dine like a king, even in the coldest months.
It’s 2013 and the craft distilling movement continues to pick up speed. In our current issue, Amy Zavatto recommends some of the best of the old-fashioned yet New Age-y locavore spirits to try in the new year.
Yesterday the Department of Sanitation and Grow NYC dropped some pretty heavy news on New York City: since they introduced collections at Greenmarkets in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island in 2011, they’ve collection ONE MILLION POUNDS of compost.
In Latin America, the peak of Christmas celebrating takes place this Sunday, aka El dia de los reyes (day of the kings). Known in English as Epiphany, January 6th commemorates the day the Three Kings arrived in Bethlehem bearing gifts for baby Jesus. But the part that gets us all giddy is the food, obviously.
After all the holiday feasting and feting, who couldn’t use a little pick-me-up to get through the work week? Here’s a cocktail from the folks at Kings County Distillery and Marlow & Sons restaurant in Williamsburg that’s just right for our we’d-rather-be-baking-cookies-than-sitting-at-this-desk mood.
Our former photo editor Michael Harlan Turkell spent the past year photographing rustic Italian dishes with the wonderfully talented Sara Jenkins, chef/owner of both Porchetta and Porsena restaurants in NYC. The result is a gorgeous app for iPad packed with recipes for simple, delicious food that’s easy to make based on 16 basic pantry items, plus loads of beautiful photography (why are we not surprised?).
With the champagne drunk and the ball dropped, we’re taking a moment to ponder the next 364 days and what they’ll bring in terms of food.
Artist Patti Paige uses Manhattan as muse, creating unique cookies that are actually good enough to eat.
Today many of you will be off opening stockings and eating Christmas ham, but for many of our Jewish friends, another annual tradition awaits: Chinese food.
