I ventured back to the New York Botanical Garden on Thursday night for the last “Edible Evening” of the summer. This week was titled “Preserving America’s Food Traditions,” with keynote speaker Josh Viertel, President of Slow Food USA. Slow Food started in Italy when Romans protested the opening of McDonald’s at the foot of the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Gardening’
August 11, 2009
Tomato Blight
Dan Barber of Blue Hill wrote a wonderful op-ed piece for the New York Times this past weekend about the tomato blight spreading through the Northeast. Frighteningly enough, Barber reports: “weather alone doesn’t explain the early severity of the disease this year. We’ve had wet, cool summers in the past, but it’s never been this [...]
August 8, 2009
Eat Good
New York Magazine is full of great stuff this week, but the real show-stopper is a fabulous article about food titled Eat Good. Authors Beth Sahpouri and Christine Whitney set out to tell us what common foods we should avoid and what to eat instead.
Here’s a snippet: “Eating was once an enjoyable, relatively uncomplicated experience; [...]
July 6, 2009
Zucchini Blossoms
When we got home from our sailing trip yesterday I noticed that our zucchini blossoms were starting to open. It reminded me of an amazing dish I just had out in LA – fried zucchini blossoms stuffed with ricotta cheese and garlic. Absolutely amazing! I’m not sure I’m going to have enough blossoms to make [...]
July 2, 2009
Good Magazine: Rooftop Gardens
I was reading GOOP this morning – Gwyneth’s new post is all about eco-friendly solutions for daily life. She posted a link to the website for Good Magazine, which is full of fantasic articles about eco-solutions, green companies, etc.
I was particularly intrigued by an article by Morgan Clendaniel about a new 6,000 square-foot rooftop garden ontop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. [...]
June 30, 2009
Garden Stakes
I was looking around sfgirlbybay this morning and stumbled across an old post about these AMAZING garden stakes from Pigeon Toe Ceramics. I must have them for my garden - a gift to myself for not killing everything this year! We ate the first batch of green beans for dinner last night!
June 29, 2009
Gourmet Magazine: The Seeds of an Heirloom Revolution
The Chefs Collaborative sent an email out today with a great link to an article in Gourmet Magazine by Barry Estabrook. Check it out here.
Here’s a snippet: “This spring, as part of Slow Food’s RAFT (Renew America’s Food Traditions) program, the Collaborative, which is dedicated to connecting chefs to local farmers, recruited 28 New England farmers to [...]
June 29, 2009
The Edible Garden Local Food Festival
I ventured down to the New York Botanical Garden for the first time ever today. It is AMAZING – totally out-of-this-world! I can’t believe I’ve lived this close for so many years and never been. This weekend they opened the summer-long Edible Garden exhibit with a festival about local food.
I saw demonstrations by chefs from [...]
June 14, 2009
The Edible Garden
I was overjoyed this week to find out that the New York Botanical Gardens has an Edible Garden exhibit this summer. As their site says: “The Edible Garden is a summer-long celebration of growing great food. Through delectable exhibitions and mouth-watering programs, be inspired to grow, prepare, and eat garden-fresh produce, and understand how plants provide [...]
