For the Presidents Day holiday, our photo editor Lindsay Morris and our publisher Stephen Munshin took their two sons on a family roadtrip to the world’s self-declared Foodtopian Society, Ashville, North Carolina. Lindsay has been sending us mouthwatering pictures of their explorations of North Carolina food culture–complete with grist, soda pop and plenty of buy [...]

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This one goes out to all the work-near-home parents who are juggling their out-of-school kids this week, and who are looking for productive and nourishing ways to fill their days. Among the booty that I brought back from the PASA conference was some Yellow Springs Farm cheese, assorted Mennonite jellies, a growler from the Elk [...]

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Add this to the list of “sh*t locavores say,” started by my friend and fellow Edible editor Gabrielle Langholtz, but how psyched are we that there are still pears at the Milk Pail in Water Mill? If you recall, it was a short local pear season due to last summer’s hurricanes and other harsh weather, [...]

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It’s been a week since I got back from Happy Valley, Pennsylvania and PASA’s Farming for the Future conference—a 2000-person, we-can-change-the-world-through-food gathering. But I’m still entranced by one bit of simple, revolutionary advice from farmer and mother Shannon Hayes: All of us “consumers” must become “producers.” That is, if we have any hope for the [...]

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Did you buy your ticket to Edible’s Good Spirits event yet? No?!? Act fast before it’s last call on your entry to over 50 vendors and samples from some of the area’s best restaurants and distillers. Tickets are only $45 and include dishes and cocktails from folks like Velseka Bowery, who will be serving Pierogies filled with Vermont Cheddar Cheese, Maple Glazed Bacon and Potato and pairing it with “The Golden Klenovka,” a cocktail made with Vermont Gold Vodka, maple syrup, organic black tea and a splash of club soda. Still hungry? Perhaps your next bite should come from Rubirosa, who will be serving Wild Boar Bruschetta with Blood Orange, Juniper and Rosemary with the “Sanguenilla Special,” a drink made with Hendrick’s Gin, Hibiscus Hop Infused Mead, Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur, Gran Classico Bitter, blood orange juice, lemon juice, soda water, Sanbitter and a slice of blood orange.

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On some recent Gotham staycations, we splurged and took the kids out to dinner, and I almost immediately regretted it. Not more than a few minutes after being seated, water glasses were spilled, the jarring sound of falling silverware rang out through the dining rooms, and two small, but shrill, voices called out in succession, [...]

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I’ve been thumbing through the short, final chapters of Joan Gussow’s most recent book, Growing, Older. They’re humorous even if the themes include dying, lifelong regrets, sea level rise and climate change. The later geological preoccupations are shared by both Gussow and I—we both garden in floodprone areas—and the balmy, 60-degree afternoons this past weekend reminded [...]

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Lindsay Morris & Brian Halweil on “Visual Victuals: Capturing Our Food Community on Film” at Lightning Round from Parrish Art Museum on Vimeo. If you missed The Parrish Art Museum’s debut Lightning Round, an evening of rapid-pace presentations by local artists, designers, chefs and other culture movers and shakers, that offers the audience a sort [...]

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