Food Event Fiend

If you listen closely at Morscher’s Pork Store, you’ll hear bits of German, Polish, Romanian, and Yugoslavian spoken. The seasoned staff seem hidden behind countless homemade weisswurst, bratwurst and krainerwurst suspended over the chest high counter. Behind the staff only door, Herbie Morscher and store partner Seigfried “Siggy” Strahl plan for the day.  Within moments [...]

Surveying the countless Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Jackson Heights, Tahir Kamil wasn’t impressed with food he found. A native of New Delhi, Tahir knew the dishes he sampled didn’t taste  authentic and he decided to open a restaurant to set the record straight. In 2004, Tahir opened Kababish and soon after, a line of [...]

You’ve heard me gush about Melt Bakery’s fried apple and pumpkin pie. I tweeted about it. I Facebooked about it. So it’s no surprise that I chased the owners down like a 14 year old girl after Justin Beiber so I could talk shop with the men behind the pie. Julian Plyter (an experienced pastry [...]

The towering copper still Gin distilleries are back in Brooklyn for the first time since Prohibition. One of the men reviving craft distilling in Brooklyn is Brad Estabrooke, who opened Breuckelen Distilling Company last month on the border of Sunset Park and Park Slope. After being laid off from the financial industry, Brad began flexing [...]

Working to make our food system good, clean and fair is a tough job. But that’s what Jerusha Klemperer and the folks at Slow Food USA work towards every day. Since Slow Food USA is such a well known grassroots food movement, I had to infiltrate their ranks. Jersusha Klemperer is the Program Director of [...]

Friends turned business partners, Taylor Cocalis and Dorothy Neagle are ecstatic about the June 2010 launch of Good Food Jobs, a unique pay-per-post job board that will link the food community together. Each posting on Good Food Jobs will be screened for relevance by Taylor and Dorothy to create a pool of individuals that can [...]

What’s the right fit for what you want to do? Answering this question propelled Emily Peterson to walk away from her career in education administration and into cooking school. In nine short months, Emily completed both the culinary arts and culinary management programs at the Institute for Culinary Education (ICE). While you might view leaving [...]

Tomorrow I have the privilege of meeting Emily Peterson, a cook and culinary instructor. I came across a great instructional video she has on her blog, The Gourmand and the Peasant, on how to use a pastry bag and the rest of her post is on tempering chocolate and finishing the truffles. Having done none [...]

The first New Amsterdam Market was held back in December 2007. Thirty-two farmers, artisans, and food purveyors began setting up at dawn to sell their goods in the freezing cold. A staggering 4,000 people came that day, some traveling from Philadelphia and even Boston. When the day ended, many vendors had completely sold out. Clearly, [...]

Micki Trager is a very lucky person. She has found pure happiness working in the kitchen at al di la, a revered Northern Italian trattoria on the corner of 5th Avenue and Carroll Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Micki and I sat down for lunch in al di la’s dining room and I learned more [...]