Author Archives: peter.hobbs

Freshly plucked rhubarb, in the patch at Wilklow Orchards in Highland, New York.

Photography by Heather Phelps-Lipton This story is the first episode in an odyssey in which we’ll be following ingredients from the field to the plate. We’ll be talking to local chefs about ingredients ...

 
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The New York Times reviewed Smith Street’s high-flying Battersby this week, and as a result securing a seat for a journey through the tiny restaurant’s spontaneous tasting menu – one of the best-kept ...

 
batali at smorgasburg

Mario Batali recently took his family and a giant ‘pretend-they’re-invisible’ camera crew to Smorgasburg for a piece on ABC’s food talk show, ‘The Chew,’ and proceeded to ...

 
BK Farmyard's Foxtrot backyard farm. BK Farmyard's founder Stacey Murphy will teach you how to do this, beginning tonight, at her Urban Farming Bootcamp.

BK Farmyard's Foxtrot backyard farm. Founder Stacey Murphy will teach you how to do this, beginning tonight, at her Urban Farming Bootcamp. Stacey Murphy founded BK Farmyards, a network of backyard farms, way ...

 
Antonio Ramos and Caroline Mak of Brooklyn Soda Works, in studio at NPR.

It was getting alarmingly late on an early summer afternoon. While madly scrambling in front of a laptop screen to get an interview with Flea founder Eric Demby posted before racing out to seek adventure ...

 
Eric Demby, ringmaster, presides over the controlled chaos and community on the hallowed fields of Flea

Eric Demby started life on a communal farm in rural Maine and grew up to write speeches for the indomitable Marty Markowitz. He now presides over the brilliant blend of chaos, community and commerce that ...

 
Grilled cheese, Depanneur-style. Red Rock Blue, a cheddar blue from Wisconsin, with roast beef and roasted red peppers on sourdough.

Is there any one thing more tightly woven into the fabric of American cuisine than the sandwich? Sandwiches, like just about everything edible in recent years, have undergone a transformation. Now, in the hands of ...

 
Spring bounty at the inaugural run of the McGolrick Park farmers market last Sunday.

Spring bounty at the inaugural run of the McGolrick Park farmers market last Sunday. Well…that was kind of easy: In January, Greenpointers began signing a petition to bring a farmers market to McGolrick Park. ...

 
The amazing space designed by Domestic Construction features hanging shovels, repurposed wood, glowing ball jars and  vintage toy farm figurines all of which decorate the walls, tables and ceilings.

The April opening of Hayseed’s Big City Farm Supply – the first shop in the city dedicated specifically to urban farming and gardening – represented a clear milestone in the development of the booming ...

 
Mermaid's Garden debuts the borough's first season-long CSF, bringing fresh, local seafood directly from the boats to the people each week.

Most would agree that the sea inspires reverie. But what about seafood? Let us propose a daydream: Accompanied by the whir of a straining winch and the cries of hovering gulls, bursting nets hauled from ...

 
Alex Palumbo, of Williamsburg's Osteria il Paiolo,

Alex Palumbo, of Williamsburg's Osteria il Paiolo, with his daughter Valentina. Alex grew up eating polenta, lots of polenta, in northern Italy. He's on a misson to turn New Yorkers on ...

 
At Williamsburg's Frej, chefs serve up $45 five-course meals composed of locally foraged and farmed foods in New Nordic style.

At Williamsburg's Frej, chefs Fredrik Berselius and Richard Kuo serve up $45 five-course meals composed of locally foraged and farmed foods in New Nordic style. Ever since Rene Redzepi’s Copenhagen restaurant Noma ...

 
The spring harvest has begun at Brooklyn Grange. You can get some of the city's freshest produce yourself beginning this week, as the Grange kicks off their 2012 market season in Long Island City today and in Williamsburg on Sunday, at Smorgasburg.

The spring harvest has begun at Brooklyn Grange. You can get some of the city's freshest produce yourself beginning this week, as the Grange kicks off their 2012 market season in Long Island ...

 
To celebrate their first anniversary, Bed Stuy's Do Or Dine will serve their interpretation of Momofuku's opening menu.

To celebrate their first anniversary, Bed Stuy's Do Or Dine will serve their interpretation of Momofuku's opening menu. Eater reports that, to celebrate the first anniversary of their opening, Bed-Stuy’s ...

 
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PBS recently debuted the first three episodes of ‘The Lexicon of Sustainability,’ a web-based video series that aims to cut through the haze surrounding food labels like ‘cage-free,’ ‘local,’ and ‘sustainable.’ According to PBS: “By ...