Entries tagged with 'events'
Posted by Zach Brooks, May 15, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Tribeca al fresco. Photograph from tasteoftribeca.org
Taste of Tribeca
Saturday, May 17, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sample tasty eats from more than 50 New York City restaurants, like Chanterelle, Bouley, The Harrison, and Blaue Gans. Admission is $40 in advance, $45 day of event, and gets you six plates of food from the restaurants of your choice. Duane and Greenwich Streets, Tribeca; tasteoftribeca.org
After the jump: Ninth Avenue International Food Fest, 32nd Annual Ukrainian Festival, Cuisine of Queens and Beyond
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Posted by Ed Levine, May 13, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Or, 'Pig Out to Feed Hungry People'
Hunger relief organization Share Our Strength's annual Taste of the Nation New York City benefit is this Wednesday, May 14, at the Roseland Ballroom.
SOS is a terrific organization that supports hunger-relief efforts all over the country. Plus, it's an organization that knows how to throw a helluva party. This year, more than 50 restaurants will be cooking at and for the event, including Gramercy Tavern, Blue Hill, Esca, and Hill Country. So if you pony up the money ($375 for a ticket that, among other things, gets you in an hour early to avoid long lines, or $275 for general admission), you end up eating great food and drinking to your heart's content for a really good cause.
Tickets available at newyorktaste.org or by calling 1-877-268-2783.
Posted by Ed Levine, May 12, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Edible Brooklyn is having its second-annual Brooklyn Uncorked tasting party this Wednesday, May 14, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the BAMCafé (30 Lafayette Avenue; Fort Greene, Brooklyn). Tickets are a reasonable $50.
Offering tastes will be 30 Long Island wineries, a half dozen local craft brewers, and a line-up of delectables from favorite Brooklyn restaurants, sorbeteers, cheesemongers, and more. Among the participants: Blue Point Brewery, Brooklyn Brewery, Heartland Brewery, Sixpoint Craft Ales, and Southampton Publick House. Cheese from Stinky Bklyn and Whole Foods Market, Long Island potato chips, palate-coolers from Wine Cellar Sorbets, freshly pressed coffees from Bodum, and natural sodas from Grown-up Soda (GuS). Restaurants attending: Bonita, Flatbush Farm, iCi, La Maison du Couscous, Little D Eatery, Palo Santo, Smoke Joint, and Stonehome Wine Bar
Tickets are available via Brown Paper Tickets, and if you enter the code SERIOUS, you get $10 off the $50 face value.
Win Tickets to Brooklyn Uncorked
But that's not all. Thanks to the generosity of the Edible Brooklyn folks, we're giving away three pairs of tickets. Enter to win by telling us what your favorite Brooklyn foodstuff is in the comments.
Three winners will be chosen at random from among eligible commenters. The standard Serious Eats contest rules apply. Comments will close at 6 p.m. ET Tuesday, May 13.
Posted by Robyn Lee, March 24, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Umami is an upcoming food and art festival taking place from April 8-18 at Roulette in New York City. What exactly does food and art entail? Events and performances include turning non-food objects into sausages, music performed with kitchen utensils, and teaching children how to make art with their food. Think of it as being allowed to play with your food!
The festival chair, Yael Raviv, was my former "Food and Performance" professor during my senior year of college and passionate about the field; I'm sure the festival will be great. If you'd like to help out during the festival and receive free tickets in the process, contact Yael.
Posted by Ed Levine, March 8, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Most eat-around events in New York feature exclusively white tablecloth, fancy-pants restaurants. Those affairs are fine and dandy, but they don't really bring serious eaters much in the way of different or delicious ethnic fare, which is a shame given how much terrific ethnic food there is in Gotham.
That's why Choice Eats, curated by Village Voice critic Robert Sietsema, is such a cool idea. Sietsema has brought together 30 restaurants, (most of which I have never heard of, much less been to), which will be serving tasting-size portions of their specialties at the Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, this Tuesday March 11, from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.
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Next Monday at 7:00 PM Marion Nestle, Dan Barber, and Christina Grace will be speaking at The Farm Bill 2007: Understanding the Political, Agricultural, and Nutritional Impact, a panel that will "explore the impact this bill has on the determinants of health especially in urban environments." Register for the panel at wagner.nyu.edu. [via Dorie Greenspan]
Posted by Ed Levine, June 23, 2006 at 7:42 AM
My friend Arthur Schwartz, who knows more than anyone (Italian or American) about Neapolitan food (yes, he did write the book (Naples at Table), will be conducting three free one-hour cooking and eating workshops on July 6, 7 and 8 at the offices of Regione Campania in Manhattan, 4 E. 54th Street (enter through the Kiton store). To register go to Arturo's website, which also currently has a terrific piece on Italian food and ingredients (and a great fava beans and potato recipe) by the Food Maven himself.
Posted by Ed Levine, June 10, 2006 at 8:40 AM
Tomorrow from noon to 4 p.m. there is going to be an Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Block Party on Eldridge Street between Canal and Division Streets.
The event, a celebration of the longstanding link between Chinese and Jewish cultures, will also feature Chinese opera, klezmer bands, mah-jong and lots of kosher egg rolls (no pork, I guess). So after you've stuffed your face with barbecue at the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party, head down to Eldridge Street for an egg roll and egg cream chaser.
Posted by Ed Levine, June 9, 2006 at 7:49 AM
In pig eating training for the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party, I ordered the porchetta panino at Il Buco 
at lunch yesterday. Just unbelievably deliciouso! Succulent, oh so tasty, and supremely porky.
Tomorrow the Block Party begins. The weather looks like it is going to hold up this year. The lines are long unless you buy the Bubba pass for $125 or get there really early, but it's still a really great hang and the 'cue is sublime.
Do not miss Big Bob Gibson's pulled pork sandwich. Pitmaster Chris Lilly will be there shredding his fabulous pork shoulder with his gloved hands. That's a sight in itself, but wait until you dig into the sandwich.
Chris Lilly photo courtesy of the Gothamist
And of course you cannot leave the fest without sampling Mike Mills' incomparable baby back ribs and Ed Mitchell's whole pig plate.
Pig photo courtesy of the Gothamist.
The barbecue seminars are being held at ICE (50 W. 23rd St.) this year. I am going to be moderating a panel Sunday at 3 p.m. on Making Peace with Barbecue: A Conversation about Food and Culture in the Jewish South. I'm not from the South, but I've eaten a lot of great food south of the Mason Dixon Line, and I'm Jewish and crazy about 'cue, so taken all together, I figure I'm legit enough to moderate this panel. Jack Hitt, Marcie Cohen Ferris, Bill Ferris, and Eli Evans round out the panel, and those are some seriously smart folks. Should be some good jawin' before or after digging into some serious 'cue.
Posted by Ed Levine, May 24, 2006 at 11:45 AM
The New York Times food section was full of interesting, fun and thought-provoking stuff this morning, but for me the most mouthwatering (and poignant) story was on page 3. There Kim Severson reported on the Edna Lewis memorial dinner, held this past Sunday in Atlanta. Edna Lewis was, as Kim described her, "an icon of Southern cooking."
Although she was born in Virginia and lived out her life in Atlanta, New Yorkers were graced by her presence and cooking skill for many years, first at Cafe Nicholson and then at Gage and Tollner. I recall eating her food many times, first at Gage and Tollner and later at the City Meals on Wheels benefits at the skating rink at Rockefeller Center.
I remember one hot June evening at one of those benefits biting into a piece of her fried chicken and thinking I had never tasted anything that good in my life, and then thinking the same thing after sampling one of her incomparable flaky, moist biscuits.
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Posted by Ed Levine, May 9, 2006 at 3:14 PM
I'm exhausted. The night of the Beard Awards I end up hanging out at various after-parties until three in the morning. A couple of things I wanted to mention:
The Beard Awards were much more emotionally resonant this year because we dedicated them to New Orleans. The live music was great (for the first time), the recorded music they used to accompany the winners' stroll to the podium was all amazing old New Orleans r and b (think Louis Jordan's Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens), and the food (all from New Orleans chefs) at the reception was real, honest and soulful. I had way too much of Willie Mae Seaton's transcendent fried chicken, and I would have had seconds and probably thirds of Leah Chase's gumbo if I had the chance.
The Beard Awards are interesting for another reason. Unlike the Oscars and the Grammys, where admission is restricted to members, anyone willing plunk down the money can go to the Beard Awards. What you find if do spend the money is a pretty boring three hour ceremony punctuated by moments of real emotion, and a crowded reception in which you stand on-line for tasting plates of foods from a dozen or so chefs. But the fact that anyone can go means that real people get to hobknob with the greatest chefs in the country and the world. You can clink glasses with Thomas Keller or Tom Colichhio or Todd English.
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Posted by Ed Levine, May 8, 2006 at 5:22 PM
5:57 PM: Mario Batali is not nervous.
6:01 PM: Jean-Georges Vongerichten looking dapper as usual.
6:05 PM: Cokie Roberts is an extraordinarily gracious and charming host.
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Posted by Ed Levine, May 8, 2006 at 11:59 AM
I'm going to be blogging live from The James Beard Awards tonight. It starts at 5:45, and when there's something noteworthy going on on-stage I'll be posting (photos, stories, anything my Treo allows me to. Anything you want answered or explained just let me know.
