The state of production for meat hungry Americans is reaching a crisis point. Here’s some stats: Each year the average American eats 48 pounds of pork, 60 pounds of beef, and 82 pounds of chicken. In total, it is over 59 billion pounds of meat. Only 1 percent of the 59 billion pounds of meat [...]
Sweet spot for capturing the terroir of the sea.
Today’s The Pour column in the New York Times by Eric Asimov takes on the question of whether locavore should include local wine. (We know many winemakers and vineyard owners out here could come up with more than one reason; Bedell winemaker Rich Olsen-Harbich came up with 10 in our last issue.) Asimov concludes “… [...]
Whether you’re Italian or freaking French, everyone thinks they make the best meatball.
In the last issue of EEE (or ‘triple E’ as Brian likes to call it), I wrote about Stephanie Gaylor of Invincible Summer Farms and her seed-saving mission to generate local varieties of nightshades. The Long Island Native Plant Initiative has been doing something similar: providing “bulk seed for grassland restorations, landscaping, roadside plantings, and [...]
Comment | May 16, 2012 | By Eileen M. Duffy | Photographs by courtesy of Long Island Wine Council
Today’s The Pour column in the New York Times by Eric Asimov takes on the question of whether locavore should include local wine. (We know many winemakers and vineyard owners out here could come up with more than one reason; Bedell winemaker Rich Olsen-Harbich came up with 10 in our last issue.) Asimov concludes “… [...]
Comment | By Eileen M. Duffy
In the last issue of EEE (or ‘triple E’ as Brian likes to call it), I wrote about Stephanie Gaylor of Invincible Summer Farms and her seed-saving mission to generate local varieties of nightshades. The Long Island Native Plant Initiative has been doing something similar: providing “bulk seed for grassland restorations, landscaping, roadside plantings, and [...]
Comment | May 10, 2012 | By Eileen M. Duffy
Southfork Kitchen, which we covered in our low summer issue last year, will be opening for its second season this weekend. And for Sunday they will be offering a three-course Mother’s Day dinner for $50. Expect to find grilled Block Island squid with smoky romesco and La Quercia Farm salumi, smoked North Fork duck breast [...]
Comment | May 8, 2012 | By Eileen M. Duffy
The state of production for meat hungry Americans is reaching a crisis point. Here’s some stats: Each year the average American eats 48 pounds of pork, 60 pounds of beef, and 82 pounds of chicken. In total, it is over 59 billion pounds of meat. Only 1 percent of the 59 billion pounds of meat [...]
Comment | May 3, 2012 | By Eileen M. Duffy
“I have always stayed true to the ‘hood, but I want to make more of a statement with this,” said Tom Schaudel. The Long Island-heavy wine list at his newest restaurant in Melville is paying off.
Comment | May 2, 2012 | By Brian Halweil
A selective roundup of what food’s in the news, in season and in business.
Comment | By Eileen M. Duffy
I’m drinking my coffee and eating my yogurt, and I hear a familiar voice on the radio spelling out the word blaufränkisch.
Comment | May 1, 2012 | By Eileen M. Duffy
In 1951, four potato farmers from Syosset, all brothers, purchased a giant piece of land in Baiting Hollow, which is now for sale for $32 million.