If you’re heading out in the next few days to track down one more perfect holiday gift, we’ve got a few ideas. From the avid cook to the amateur bartender, this city is a veritable treasure chest of edible gifts.
If you haven’t gotten your holiday fix yet, there’s still time! Read on for tips on where to take in the sights, smells and flavors of the holidays.
This cocktail calls for beet kvass, a slightly fizzy, naturally fermented drink from the Old World. Find it at Zabar’s made by Brooklyn-based company The Gefelteria.
Thanks to all our sandwich-loving poets for entering!
When we offered to throw in a free copy of “Edible Brooklyn: The Cookbook” with a subscription to our magazine, we knew it’d be a hit. But wow! The response to our offer has been even more positive than we could have imagined. So we’re extending the deadline for anybody who hasn’t had a chance to sign up.
Eating local in New York 12 months a year used to be challenge. It took planning and hard work–canning, drying and making jam, or else you’d end up eating stored root vegetables all winter. But now, thanks to pioneering upstate farmers, we city dwellers can eat Hudson Valley produce–without suffering one bit!–all winter long. The trick? Winter CSAs of frozen local produce.
In the 1990’s, bread was a sad scene in New York. Most bakers were churning out fluffy white stuff made with industrial yeast. Thankfully for New Yorkers then (and us now), along came a pioneering woman with an artisanal vision.
Andrew Cote, urban beekeeper extraordinaire and founder of the not-for-profit organization Bees Without Borders, is looking for donations to fund his latest project, Bees Over Badgers.
Brrr…it’s cold outside. We’ve barely started on our lunch, but already we’re dreaming about what to put in the oven for dinner tonight. Here’s a recipe that will do just fine: rich and creamy 5-cheese mac and cheese from Home Cooking with Jean-Georges: My Favorite Simple Recipes (his wife, Marja, actually created it).
Edible Manhattan and Hudson Whiskey want to help you get into the holiday spirit. We’ve gathered a crew of talented NYC bartenders to shake up some seasonal cocktails featuring Hudson Baby Bourbon Whiskey. Stop by one of these area wine shops from 5:00-7:30 pm tonight and enjoy a drink on us.
While other awards recognize food that tastes good or food that is good for the planet, the Good Food Awards honor people who make food that is good in all senses of the word: delicious, respectful of the environment, and connected to communities and cultural traditions. This year’s finalists represented us New Yorkers well, with 17 of those finalists hailing from our great state.
As part of the New York Botanical Garden’s annual Holiday Train Show, local bakers put on a display of better-than-your-five-year-old-could-make gingerbread houses (we love kiddie art, but these are serious gingerbread masterpieces).
