While we’ve been singing the praises of our Eat Drink Local restaurant partners in the big city–offering special menus through tomorrow, June 30–this weeklong food chain celebration is actually a much bigger affair. Farmers, winemakers, brewers and other food and…
What more could be said about oysters, and why they are the perfect Ingredient of the Week? For New Yorkers, the case for slurping Crassostrea virginica—not just during Eat Drink Local week, but year round–is historical, economic, ecological, cultural, as…
When we were selecting our seven ingredients to celebrate each day of Eat Drink Local Week, we wanted a mix of the hyper-seasonal (peas, green garlic, rhubarb) along with a few up-and coming locally produced foodstuffs we felt needed…
Like the tomato, rhubarb has a bit of federal legislation behind its lore: The perfectly pink-to-pale green part we eat is the celery-like stem of a perennial plant, which scientifically speaking puts it squarely in the vegetable camp. But…
Cherries and chevre? You can keep em. Don’t get me wrong – I love just about every single ingredient at the farmers market year round, and go into a real-food reverie this time of year, eating myself sick on sugar…
If you’re looking for the lowest toil-to-taste ratio in your early summer produce, sweet truly in season peas are maybe not at the top of your list. Though not as much of a chore to prep as favas —…
Restaurants and farm stands aren’t the only places to celebrate Eat Drink Local Week: From gelato to shaved ice, bread to cheese, our EDLW Business Partners have some special offers to extend to shoppers for the duration of the Week.…
Today marks the start of Eat Drink Local Week, seven days of parties and restaurant specials designed to show off the best of our foodshed. Uptown and downtown Manhattan, all the way out to the East End of Long Island, and…
Today marks the start of Eat Drink Local Week, seven days of parties and restaurant specials designed to show off the best of our foodshed. Uptown, downtown, in north and south Brooklyn and all the way out to the East End…
Today marks the start of Eat Drink Local Week, seven days of parties and restaurant specials designed to show off the best of our foodshed. Uptown, downtown, in north and south Brooklyn and all the way out to the…
Eat Drink Local Week begins today, and we are proud to announce we will be donating profits from all subscription sales between June 24 to 30 to our charitable partners of the week, GrowNYC and Edible Schoolyards of the East…
When we think about the strawberry, our very first 2011 Eat Drink Local Ingredient of the Week, our thoughts turn not to the Hudson Valley – though fine specimens are grown to our north – but to the East.…
