This is, in my mind, the perfect recipe for a holiday weekend that signifies the end of summer — it’s simple, there’s no cooking, and it encompasses my three favorite summer treats, tomatoes, basil and fresh corn.
Play around with the a...
This week in the paper, I dished on the borough’s hottest restaurant news and gossip. Summer may have been slow, but rest assured there are plenty of great openings this fall.
Don’t shoot us for saying it, but with the summer winding down, there are a whole lot of “lasts” to be squeezed in before the cold. If you haven’t made it to the Saturday outdoor beer garden at Sycamore in Ditmas Park, this Saturda...
Our favorites this week from the World Wide Web.
Monday: NYC Tough on Startup Breweries [NY Daily News]
Tuesday: Gourmet Magazine Revived, Sort Of [NY Times]
Wednesday: What Roger Ebert Eats [NY Times]
Thursday: Ancient Nubians Made Antibiotic Beer [Wire...
It’s never a good idea to booze and bike. But it’s a great idea to think about drinking while biking.
As our first of many features on the events of NY Craft Beer Week, beginning September 24th, we bring you the Bike Brooklyn Beer Blitz!, a h...
Tonight, head to Greenpoint for The Habitat’s third annual wing eating contest. Twelve contestants will compete for the wing-eating crown (and $100) by attempting to eat the most wings in ten minutes. Wings are 25 cents a pop for onlookers. The contest ...
Yesterday we discovered that the Brooklyn food scene has its own iPhone app, today we dish on the borough’s very own cookbook, The New Brooklyn Cookbook. The book comes out in October, but starting September 11, you can buy an advanced copy at The B...
In all likelihood, you’re standing in your New York City apartment right now, one hand in against your fridge and another on your bed, with your leg in your bathroom — like a sick game of tiny apartment Twister. But if size is preventing you f...
I can’t quite recall how I stumbled upon Poor Girl Eats Well, but it was a happy coincidence. The income of a freelance writer isn’t what it used to be, and I constantly find myself navigating back to the site for cheap, fast recipes. Most of ...
Thanks to a serious lack of good cotija cheese here in NYC, I more and more find myself turning to feta instead. These quick tacos are a great weeknight meal — I always make extra beans to add to other dishes, or even just snack on solo later in the...