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Composting Feels Oh So Good! Especially For Greenpoint and North Brooklyn
How many of you Greenpointers have your own compost bin? Or bring your food scraps to the Greenmarket on Saturday in McCarren Park? Doesn’t it feel so good? Do you get giddy when you see all the food...
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Recipes Gone Wild: Quick Ginger Carrot Pickles
Illustrations by Libby VanderPloeg Growing up, I lived a stone’s throw from Lake Michigan. Nearly every day during the summer I’d go to the beach, but on the hottest afternoons, I stayed indoors. On...
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Recipes Gone Wild: Tamarind-Curry Apple Chips
Illustration by Libby VanderPloeg Stopping at a gas station upstate the other weekend, I had my first taste of this fall’s apple crop. A lady had set up a fruit stand just outside the food court, and...
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Recipes Gone Wild: Never Enough! Roasted Garlic
Nothing is easy. Especially not figuring out what to make for dinner, which can actually feel like sort of a chore if you cook a lot. Having said that, I’ll admit that few things make me as happy as...
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Recipes Gone Wild: New Amsterdam Clam Chowder
Clams have feelings too, you know…maybe? Disturb them and they’re liable to spit right in your eye. Such an action, so uncouth, so impulsive, warrants a long vacation in the soup pot, if you get my...
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Recipes Gone Wild: Eva Schmidt’s Heart-Warming Borscht
Today marks the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and what better to celebrate the opening ceremony than with a big bowl of borscht? I’ll admit that I until recently I never really...
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Recipes Gone Wild: Dan Valen’s Risotto with Asparagus, Leeks, and Shell Peas
Rainy days and Mondays…sigh… Let us consider today’s weather as an answer to yesterday’s summer-y heat and a reminder that it’s still spring, friends. I only wish I liked my raincoat more. In other...
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Farmers, Fishers, Bakers, Makers: Meet Stone and Thistle
Happy Friday, neighbors! This post is the first in a new summer series highlighting the growers and food producers that come to Greenpoint’s McGolrick Park Down-to-Earth Market each Sunday (11 am-...
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Farmers, Fishers, Bakers, Makers: Meet Scott Bridi of Brooklyn Cured
Brooklyn Cured is this week’s featured vendor at Greenpoint’s McGolrick Park Down-to-Earth Market, (open Sundays, 11 am- 4pm). This week, I caught up with BK Cured’s top dog, Scott Bridi, to learn more...
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Farmers, Fishers, Bakers, Makers: Meet Eli Kaplan of Mom and Popsicles
Orange Souchong, Black Sesame and Raspberry, Honeydew Lemongrass, Salted Caramel. These are just some of the flavors that Greenpoint’s local popsicle company, Mom & Pospsicles, has been sharing in...
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Recipes Gone Wild: Quick Ginger Carrot Pickles
Illustrations by Libby VanderPloeg Growing up, I lived a stone’s throw from Lake Michigan. Nearly every day during the summer I’d go to the beach, but on the hottest afternoons, I stayed indoors. On...
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Recipes Gone Wild: Tamarind-Curry Apple Chips
Illustration by Libby VanderPloeg Stopping at a gas station upstate the other weekend, I had my first taste of this fall’s apple crop. A lady had set up a fruit stand just outside the food court, and...
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Recipes Gone Wild: Never Enough! Roasted Garlic
Nothing is easy. Especially not figuring out what to make for dinner, which can actually feel like sort of a chore if you cook a lot. Having said that, I’ll admit that few things make me as happy as...
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Recipes Gone Wild: New Amsterdam Clam Chowder
Clams have feelings too, you know…maybe? Disturb them and they’re liable to spit right in your eye. Such an action, so uncouth, so impulsive, warrants a long vacation in the soup pot, if you get my...
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Recipes Gone Wild: Eva Schmidt’s Heart-Warming Borscht
Today marks the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and what better to celebrate the opening ceremony than with a big bowl of borscht? I’ll admit that I until recently I never really...
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Recipes Gone Wild: Dan Valen’s Risotto with Asparagus, Leeks, and Shell Peas
Rainy days and Mondays…sigh… Let us consider today’s weather as an answer to yesterday’s summer-y heat and a reminder that it’s still spring, friends. I only wish I liked my raincoat more. In other...
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Farmers, Fishers, Bakers, Makers: Meet Stone and Thistle
Happy Friday, neighbors! This post is the first in a new summer series highlighting the growers and food producers that come to Greenpoint’s McGolrick Park Down-to-Earth Market each Sunday (11 am-...
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Farmers, Fishers, Bakers, Makers: Meet Scott Bridi of Brooklyn Cured
Brooklyn Cured is this week’s featured vendor at Greenpoint’s McGolrick Park Down-to-Earth Market, (open Sundays, 11 am- 4pm). This week, I caught up with BK Cured’s top dog, Scott Bridi, to learn more...
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Farmers, Fishers, Bakers, Makers: Meet Eli Kaplan of Mom and Popsicles
Orange Souchong, Black Sesame and Raspberry, Honeydew Lemongrass, Salted Caramel. These are just some of the flavors that Greenpoint’s local popsicle company, Mom & Pospsicles, has been sharing in...
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Sunday Snaps – McCarren Park Greenmarket!
“Our farm is in West Pawlet, in southern Vermont. We sell a variety of raw cow’s milk and goat’s milk cheeses, also maple syrup!” – Yvette of Consider Bardwell Farm “We are a third generation farm...
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