Food Event Fiend

Livestock are the highlight to your winter visit to Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills , NY – just 30 miles north of Manhattan. Stone Barns is an 80 acre four-season farm and education center boasting strong initiatives in holistic agriculture and sustainable farming practices. The featured cast of characters during [...]

To blog or not to blog, that is the $750,000.00 question. I scored a chance to be a taste tester for a taping of Season 2 of 24 Hour Restaurant Battle on Food Network. The show is a spin off of Top Chef’s infamous Restaurant Wars episodes. On this show, two teams of amateur cooks/restauranteurs [...]

Nightfall at Hong Kong Supermarket Cheap prices, sketchy meat, and more bizarre Chinese canned goods than you can shake a chopstick at. It’s just a typical Saturday afternoon inside the bustling Hong Kong Supermarket located on 8th Avenue and 81st street in Sunset Park — the heart of Brooklyn’s Chinatown. Oh yes, I smell a [...]

CASTING CALLDeadline for submissions is January 7th. Now Casting Familys that Celebrate their Cultural History through Cooking! Do you enjoy blending your family’s “Old World” recipes with American Cuisine? Do you come up with inventive ways to bring your culture’s cooking traditions into your kitchen? If so, **Left/Right TV, an award-winning television production company wants to [...]

Have you always dreamed of running your own restaurant? Who should apply: Two person teams with pre-existing relationships. Husband/wife, ex-husband/wife, father/daughter, mother/son, newlyweds, brothers, sisters, twins, cousins, best friends etc. Those with the skills to run a restaurant. Applicants may have lots restaurant experience, no restaurant experience, or some combination of them both. One member [...]

Souvenir from Rick’s Picks’ stand at the Pickle Festival named after their top selling aromatic pickled beets Note: Serious Eats’ own Ed Levine has the same t shirt. Courtesy of Lingbo Li at her blog lingboli.com

Some photos from the Brazilian Festival last weekend. Pao de queijo (cheese bread) often made from cassavah flour Made with chicken and spices, Coxinha is a popular fried snack. Coxinha literally means “little thigh” Piles of sugar cane were ground up on machines to sweeten up drinks Brazilian Coconut balls This fella didn’t mind napping [...]

Eataly’s piazza The finest cured meats and aged cheeses, wine glasses swirling and clinking, laughter, languages, vaulted ceilings, fresh pasta, pastry, marble finishes, well behaved children and is that angels I hear singing? Is this heaven? No, this is Eataly. It’s absolutely obscene….and I can’t wait to go back. Lining up for proscuitto di parma [...]

The Brooklyn Roots Experiment at the Farm City Fair Crossing the Line Festival 2010: FIAF Sunday September 12, 2010 12-3pm Invisible Dog Gallery 3rd Floor, 51 Bergen St. Brooklyn, NY 11201 (Cobble Hill) Tickets On Sale Now! Open Call To Chefs! Tickets: $25 $5 off for FIAF members Cookoff pros Theo Peck and Nick Suarez [...]