"The whole time Gino was making yogurt at home and I was making toppings for the yogurt... And we'd be eating our yougurt and going, "What should we do?" Until one day we were like, wait a minute, we're making this great yogurt every day, this is what we're going to do!" - Jennie Ammirati, Co-owner of Culture
Lamb's Quarters,

Most wild edible greens get all bittered-out by mid-summer. Not the lovely Lamb's Quarters. And they're everywhere. By Leda Meredith I recently saw lamb’s quarters (Chenopodium album) for sale ...

 
Lists

Lists, one of the great inventions of humankind, are underappreciated. Here, in homage to the tireless listmakers who bestow order and comprehensibility upon our city's vast, chaotic galaxy of food, is a snapshot ...

 
Catskill Creek in Oak Hill, New York. Want a taste? Not of the creek, of the place. With their new 'Taste of a Place' dinner series, Williamsburg's Parish Hall and Egg aim to give you just that.

Catskill Creek in Oak Hill, New York. Want a taste? Not of the creek, of the place. With their new 'Taste of a Place' dinner series, Williamsburg's Parish Hall and Egg ...

 
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Photography by Morgan Ione Yeager As much as we may cherish the summer’s bliss of a dotingly-cultivated heirloom tomato or a perfect, luscious peach, ingredients that grow wild, on the forest floor, exert a ...

 
The Landhaus stand at Smorgasburg. Founder Matthew Leif (right) parlayed over a decade of work in restaurant kitchens into the 'Farm to Sandwich' dream.

To describe Landhaus NYC’s grilled slabs of bacon on a stick as just…’bacon’ would be a sin of oversimplification. A bite of Landhaus’ unusually, even decadently, thick slabs of bacon is the culmination ...

 
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Happy (almost) Fourth of July, everyone! Check out our event picks for some ways to get patriotic, Brooklyn-style. Brooklyn Cyclones Tailgate Party It doesn’t get more American than a good old-fashioned tailgate, so ...

 
Gabe Stommel, aka Gabe The Fish Babe, sources seafood directly from local fishermen for some of the city's finest restaurants. She's teamed up with Williamsburg's Depanneur to launch a 'Fish Club,' giving Brooklynites weekly access to the good stuff. Photo © Valery Rizzo.

Gabe Stommel, aka Gabe The Fish Babe, sources seafood directly from local fishermen for some of the city's finest restaurants. She's teamed up with Williamsburg's Depanneur to launch a &#...

 
caffecapri

In Brooklyn these days, conversations about coffee tend to tilt toward the new. Seems like every few weeks a new shop opens up, touting sustainably-sourced, hand-picked beans and mastery of the ever-elevating baristatic arts. And ...

 
headbanddad

[Editor's Note: Disclaimer: This has absolutely nothing to do with food, but it's so ground-shakingly awesome that we had to post it.] Picture it. You’re eight years old. Your mom wakes you up, hustles ...

 
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 ...

 
Photo (c) Valery Rizzo.

Photo (c) Valery Rizzo. Flea Food Under the Archway Can’t wait until the weekend for your favorite Flea and Smorg snacks? Then head to the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge every Thursday and ...

 
Dan Dan noodles, a classic Sichuan dish with a twist, at Lane Li's Noodle Lane, at Smorgasburg.

It’s astounding how many new, and often inspiring, food pop-ups are, well, popping-up these days in Brooklyn. From food stands at markets and street fairs, to trucks roaming the streets, the BK is becoming ...

 
ny times battersby snip

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 ...