The Meat Hook

What’s Good Today? Lamb Bacon at The Meat Hook

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James Lum, a butcher at The Meat Hook, thinks you should try their lamb bacon. The rock and roll never stops at The Meat Hook, and neither does creative butchery. The shop’s commitment to ...

 
Court Street Grocers

What’s Good Today? The Turkey & Durkee, At Court Street Grocers

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Today, we stop by Court Street Grocers – the Carroll Gardens home of quirky, hard-to-find and often inspiring specialty items and a legendary lineup of modern-yet-faithful interpretations of classic sandwiches – for a chat with ...

 
Vine Wine

What’s Good Today? The Blanc de Morgex – A Mountain White, Perfect For Late Summer, At Vine Wine

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It’s Friday, and we are in search of wine. Specifically, a perfect late summer wine, that accentuates September’s warm golden light and transports us to a field of vines on a hillside somewhere, ...

 
At Marlow & Daughters in Williamsburg, head butcher TJ Burnham makes grass-fed beef jerky inspired by his New Mexico roots.

What’s Good Today? TJ’s Jerky at Marlow & Daughters

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And today? A stop at Marlow & Daughters – the little butcher shop on Broadway that was the first in the borough to throw down the gauntlet for good meat when it opened in late 2008. ...

 
What's good today? Gelato. At Bklyn Larder, manager Tim Solomon is pretty psyched about a few of their new housemade flavors - tangy, cheesey Greek Yogurt; nutty, savory Sesame; and Cherry, made with some very special sweet-and-bitter wild Italian cherries.

What’s Good Today? Housemade Gelato at Bklyn Larder

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What's good today? Gelato. At Bklyn Larder, manager Tim Solomon is pretty psyched about a few of their new housemade flavors - tangy, cheesy Greek Yogurt; nutty, savory Sesame; and Cherry, made with ...

 
Gia Giasullo and her brother Peter Freeman grew up in rural Maine surrounded in late summer by wild blueberries. As co-owners of Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain, they do what they can to replicate that experience at their beautifully restored shop on a quiet corner of Carroll Gardens. Here, Gia serves up a Black & Blue – a float featuring blueberry soda made with fresh berries from the local Greenmarket and a scoop of black raspberry ice cream.

What’s Good Today? Brooklyn Farmacy’s Homemade Blueberry Sodas and Floats

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Today we kick off a new series in which we explore the borough, asking makers and purveyors of good things to eat and drink a very simple question that’s been asked for generations – “What’...

 
The expansion of the new farm at the yard will double the amount of produce The Grange harvests. This year they should harvest about thirty thousand pounds. At the Yard they are growing tomatoes, salad greens, cucumbers, kale, rainbow chard, herbs, peppers, eggplant and okra.

Lush Skies: Summer Atop The Navy Yard, At Brooklyn Grange’s Newest Rooftop Farm

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It’s true, you know. It’s not a dream. There is a secret world of verdant green fields spreading high above the city’s steamy gray streets. This world is growing, and a ...

 
in the pasture

Field to Fork: Cheese, From The Pasture To The Cave, At Consider Bardwell

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Photography by Morgan Ione Yeager Goats eating grass. At Consider Bardwell Farm in West Pawlet, Vermont, this is where the cheese begins. At Consider Bardwell Farm in West Pawlet, Vermont, the cheese is made in ...

 
cut brooklyn feature

The Art Of The Knife: Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn and David Liatti of 61 Local Make A Pilgrimage To Japan To Learn From The Masters

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Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn. Joel makes kitchen knives by hand in his Gowanus shop. This spring, he and David Liatti, a friend, designer, engineer, and owner of Boerum Hill's 61 Local went ...

 
soup

In Season: Summer In A Bowl – Tomato And Dill Soup From Nicole Chazar Of The Splendid Spoon

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At The Splendid Spoon, Nicole Chaszar's summer tomato and dill soup captures the flavors of summer's peak. At the Greenpoint-based ‘micro-soupery’ The Splendid Spoon, Nicole Chaszar makes simple but sophisticated, hyper-seasonal ...

 
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Field To Fork: ‘The Cutting Syllable’ – From The Forest Floor to Flatbush Ave., with Forager Evan Strusinski and Chef John Adler, of Franny’s

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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 ...

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

Field To Fork: Rhubarb – From The Patch At Wilklow Orchards, To The Pie At Four & Twenty Blackbirds

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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 ...

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

Brooklyn, Distilled: A Look Behind The Curtain At The Brooklyn Flea, With Founder Eric Demby

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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 ...

 
Alex Palumbo, of Williamsburg's Osteria il Paiolo,

Polenta Palooza: Osteria il Paiolo’s Alex Palumbo Shines A Light on Northern Italy’s Most Beloved Dish

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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 ...

 
Esposito's is a neighborhood staple on Court Street, just ask all the children that stop to pet the giant pig standing outside the shop. They are called a Jersey Pork Store because when they opened in 1922 if your hogs came from Jersey then you knew it was the best quality pork you could find anywhere.

Sfogliatelle, Panelle & Scamorzza: A Look Inside Carroll Gardens’ Old-School Italian Culinary Treasures

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Photographer Valery Rizzo shows us Carroll Gardens' true culinary soul, with a look inside a few of the neighborhood's old-school Italian bakeries, restaurants and specialty shops. Carroll Gardens, once home to a ...