On Sunday morning, I followed friendly people up a flight of stairs,
to a farm on a roof in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
On Sunday morning, I followed friendly people up a flight of stairs,
to a farm on a roof in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
This podcast is in honor of [...]
Do you ever crave colors? Tonight, I turned to the stove knowing only that the pasta began with purple.
Soon, slender purple [...]
I spent yesterday walking Brooklyn, admiring costumed children celebrating Halloween,
concentrating on painting pumpkins and unwrapping candy,
This is a group of younger social entrepreneurs, many of whom are quite savvy online, who use and will use social [...]
On yesterday’s drive, I stopped at [...]
Two weekends ago, my sister Kat and her boyfriend Reid visited me in Brooklyn, filling the apartment with their energy, Kat’s vast knowledge of chocolate, and Reid’s curiosity about design in real life. I expect great things from both, of course, and they [...]
The podcast bifurcates, and there are a few new mixers included [...]
On Saturday, I drove to Washington for my friend Andrew’s talent show birthday extravaganza. The party began with his sister Caroline’s parody card,
and Andrew opened the night’s slate of featured performers [...]
Last night, I tried bacorn for the first time: little bits of bacon with a homemade caramel on the kernels…but I’m getting ahead of myself.
Just before I left for Linz a few weeks' [...]
In curating the symposium, David Sasaki also created “An Outsider’s Guide to Linz.” This post [...]
In my next post, I’ll detail my Austrian adventures with this great group [...]
This Saturday morning started with a run to the market to find a boon of berries,
and it continued through fabulous French toast at Cafe 202 (that my [...]
This morning, the Mushroom Man at Union Square Greenmarket explained the basket next to the Chicken of the Woods mushrooms (below—I like my mushrooms to taste like mushrooms),
and the mystery mushrooms [...]
I discovered at a dinner party last night that Marc Dennis believes entomophagy is the future, as he stirred crickets into sautéed vegetables after serving appetizers of roasted bamboo worms (a nice umami hit of [...]
And the title of this podcast is from a lyric [...]
This morning, insouciant pink and white flowers at the Union Square Greenmarket defied the heat of the coming day,
What to do with the pile of beautiful zebra tomatoes I returned to this sweltering afternoon?
Past ripe, the green streaked with gold became a fresh Bloody Mary:
Wednesday morning the cut flowers at Union Square Greenmarket winked at the heat,
and some of the bouquets looked like the season ahead,
This morning, I took the train over the bridge on my way to Union Square Greenmarket, as has become Wednesday morning tradition:
You emerge from the subway into flowers,
!["Hi! We are summer squash." [Why, hello.]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3479/3781289463_24ce89712e.jpg)
Clever farmers’ market vendors like Evolutionary Organics hang informative, happy little signs introducing the small wonders within a given bin:
And so, yesterday in the rain, I had sunny [...]
Even better, I thought. It’s the first time I’ve noticed the Schnitzel Truck (@schnitzeltruck) in DUMBO, the area of Brooklyn where I work. A bit [...]
With squash blossoms from Evolutionary (along with lettuce), ears of corn, [...]
For a few weeks now, I’ve been tracking it, stealthily checking its geoposition.
Finally, this morning, I saw it in all its glory:
The Waffle Truck (@waffletruck on Twitter) mobilizes wafels and dinges (toppings) to New York with daily [...]
This morning, I jostled with chefs for pheasant eggs at the Union Square Greenmarket. With my dozen carefully placed in a separate bag, I made my way toward the strawberries,
gazed at sprays of elderberry flowers, [...]
If [...]
Not that five white kids in wigs can do this justice (the song’s magic), but here we are, and so it goes:
Favorite song or [...]
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