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peter.hobbs Jun 09
“On Evan’s very first brew day here, he got heatstroke.” -Craig Frymark Simply put, local upstart Barrier Brewing is killing it. The year-old, two-man operation has already made a name for itself by brewing an impressive variety of notably well-crafted beers on a tiny single-barrel brewing system, out of a small garage-like space in Oceanside, New York. Evan [...] -
lentejasrojas Jun 07
Editors Note: Long before it was culinary chic to retrofit a truck to sling awesome food, the Red Hook Ballfield Vendors started doing it out of necessity. When the city threatened to shut down the freewheeling weekly Latin-American food fest, Cesar Fuentes took it upon himself to stand up for his community of vendors, and helped [...] -
peter.hobbs Jun 03
Christopher Nicholson’s day job is interesting enough. His daily commute takes him from his Greenpoint home to the Red Hook harborfront, where he’s a winemaker at the Red Hook Winery , shepherding Long Island and Finger Lakes grapes through the long and complex journey from vine to barrel to bottle. But his other work may be even [...] -
jasonmgreenberg Jun 03
A mere stone’s throw from bustling Flatbush Avenue, on the charming residential Carlton Ave, lies the restaurant James. One of Brooklyn’s hidden gems. We talked with Chef Bryan Calvert who, along with his wife Deborah Williamson, owns and operates this small, intimate restaurant with an accessible, American-influenced menu.
So Bryan, can you tell me a little about how [...]
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peter.hobbs May 27
Sycamore Flower Shop & Bar in Ditmas Park is like an oasis in a dream. Stumbling into Ditmas after passing through the surrounding city’s dense canyons of brownstone, brick and concrete leaves many first time visitors awestruck, as they’re greeted by block after block of big Victorian houses, sprawling lawns, wraparound porches and quiet tree-lined [...] -
Jacque S May 27
by Jacque Lynn Schiller The Clover Club in Cobble Hill is, if anything, gorgeous: rich wood, tin ceilings, chandeliers… But don’t let the opulence intimidate. The bar staff is friendly and know their old time cocktails. And someone in the kitchen, Executive Chef Craig Rivard to be exact, knows his bar snacks. We melted into one [...] -
peter.hobbs May 27
By Leda Meredith Two delicious vegetables plus several kinds of herbal medicine from one plant: what’s not to love? The plant is burdock ( Arctium lappa and A. minus ). One of the two vegetables it produces is in season for only a few weeks, and that season is now. I often say “One person’s weeds are another person’s dinner,” [...] -
peter.hobbs May 26
By Jackie Goldstein I recently had the pleasure of joining Scott Bridi, the founder of Brooklyn Cured , as he cooked for a small group of friends at his cousin’s apartment. These dinners are a somewhat regular occurrence – with so much time spent at work, hand-crafting his line of pates, sausages, and rillettes, Scott loves the chance [...]
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[Editor’s note: Today we welcome Carrie King, a Brooklyn-based chef, writer, and teacher who moonlights on weekends working the stand for a local farmer at a Brooklyn Greenmarket. Over the next few weeks she’...
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 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 ...
Many Brooklyn farmers markets are open all winter long. Some farmers at the markets are using technology to extend their growing season, meaning you can find fresh local, produce year-round. Real Brooklynites don’t shrink ...
A USDA report finds that local food is a much bigger market than previously thought, with a healthy growth curve and sales projected to reach $7 billion this year. We all know someone who rolls ...
by Joanna Shaw Flamm While Irene may have left New York City with a no more than few uprooted trees, the real story of this storm has become the flooding and destruction across upstate New ...
Foodshed Market, an indoor farmers market at The Commons on Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond, is now open on Tuesday nights Alright everyone, take out your list of reasons you can’t eat ...
Park Slope-based photographer Valery Rizzo is back this month with a bevy of portraits taken at Greenmarkets across Brooklyn. Over the course of a few weekends, Valery worked the Greenpoint/McCarren Park and Grand Army ...
With a few exceptions, Downtown Brooklyn is one area that definitely hasn’t felt the touch of the borough’s newfound enthusiasm for good food. That’s about to change…Official word broke last ...
Melissa Ennen working the door at Foodshed Market When Melissa Ennen decided to open The Commons, a community and educational center in Boerum Hill, she didn’t just want to host classes and workshops. She ...
After working late on a weeknight, you rush home, drop your coat and bag on the couch, and open the fridge hoping to find something quick and satisfying to make for dinner. You eye that ...
The Added Value Red Hook Community Farm will be celebrating autumn’s bounty by hosting their fifth annual Harvest Festival on Saturday.This isn’t some quaint gathering of locavores: it’s a ...
Our friend and farmers market maven (make that manager) Chelsea Whittaker has been providing great tips all season long on what to get at your local Brooklyn farmers markets, and this week she reminds us ...
Tomatoes and corn always grab the headlines at the farmers market, but don’t sleep on summer squash. Also called zucchini, summer squash comes in many varieties in our area, each with its own ...
Corn seems to have gotten a bit of bad rap lately (thanks, Michael Pollan), but fresh summer corn is definitely not something to miss. We asked our farmer friend Chelsea Whittaker, manager of Greenpoint/McCarren ...
