Edible Schoolyard NYC Hosts a Star-Studded Fundraiser
Alison Roman summed up the room best: “It’s people that actually care about food and where it comes from.” She was referring to the crowd that gathered on Tuesday, May 5, at an event space on...
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The nation’s first Black food bookstore is ready to meet your holiday shopping desires with their new brick-and-mortar location at 373 Lewis Avenue in Brooklyn. Founded by sisters Gabrielle and...
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How TikTok is Stacking Your Grocery’s Shelves Tinned fish. Jewel-toned aperitifs. Sparkling drinks, both bottled and canned. No, this isn’t a specialty grocery store—it’s your social media feed....
View ArticleRestauranteur and Filmmaker Alexander Olch Talks Commissary & Metrograph
It’s a Friday night at Commissary on Ludlow Street and the wide leaves of a Monstera plant sway, casting film noir shadows across the restaurant’s floor. The newly unmasked crowd sit squished together...
View ArticleWhip It: Music For Cooking
A Playlist by Mark Mothersbaugh This issue’s playlist comes from Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of Akron post-punk art band Devo and composer of film scores for Wes Anderson and many others. Nearly...
View ArticlePass the Popcorn: Top Five Movie Scenes About Food
Get a bunch of cinema geeks together and ask this question: What are your top five film scenes about food? Chances are, that discussion will come to blows. Oh sure, there are the classics (preparing...
View ArticleFab, Chef: The New Luxury Utility-Wear Line Designed with Chefs in Mind
When you hear the phrase “super potato,” what are you envisioning? A magnificently prepared spud, perhaps? What you’re likely not envisioning is a luxury utility-wear line created by an acclaimed...
View ArticleShock Value: How Instagram Is Changing Restaurant Design
Your pinky curls to support the bottom edge of your phone, while your index, middle and ring fingers fan across its back. This leaves your thumb free to swipe images up your screen, which spin in the...
View ArticleDe Gustibus: Where Food, Art and Era Meet
I came across the work of Arcimboldo at the impressionable age of about 8, pawing (illicitly) through my big brother’s record album collection. Flip. Flip. Flip. And then I saw it: Kansas’s Masque....
View ArticleWhy Plants Have Become the Biggest Trend in Restaurant Decor
If you’re seeing greenery everywhere when you go out, you’re not alone. Photo by Liz Clayman. It’s a jungle out there, or so new restaurants would have you believe. Leafy chic is becoming the decor of...
View ArticlePunch Please
HISTORY + HOLIDAY DRINKING The Highs and Lows of the Perennial Party Drink My introduction to punch might have been a lot like yours. SCENE: the Daniel Webster Elementary School gymnasium. DATE:...
View ArticleMise en Place Meets Mise en Scene
Art, Artists, and Babette’s Feast Food and film have been entwined ever since Charlie Chaplin stabbed two bread rolls with forks and performed his little dance. In some movies—Eat Drink Man Woman...
View ArticleCityscapes vs. Tablescapes
URBAN DESIGN + DINING SHEDS The challenges of outdoor dining Turn most corners in New York City and you’re bound to encounter diners relaxing over cocktails and a meal in the road. It’s a scene that...
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How TikTok is Stacking Your Grocery’s Shelves Tinned fish. Jewel-toned aperitifs. Sparkling drinks, both bottled and canned. No, this isn’t a specialty grocery store—it’s your social media feed....
View ArticleBalm and Fuel
CANNABIS + HIP-HOP How Weed Fueled an Art Form As hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary, widespread celebrations honoring the world’s most popular music genre are taking place. Yet not long ago,...
View ArticleObsessed: Food & Fashion
Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together Opening on September 13, The Museum at FIT presents Food & Fashion, a major new exhibition. The show includes garments, accessories, and textiles by...
View ArticleFarm + Face: Beauty’s Avant-Garde
Hildegaard & Mama Farm We’re not interested in anti-aging, or preying upon our clientele’s insecurities,” says acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Lia Chavez, who recently added a collection of...
View ArticleTiki’s Dark Side
And One Bar Heading Toward the Light COLONIALISM + COCKTAILS One of the wildest aspects about tiki’s pick-and-choose aesthetic is that it was birthed, virtually fully formed, from the head of one man....
View ArticleThe Ultimate Disco Serves Dessert and Dancing
A Look Inside Dessert Disco Hosted by Nasim Lahbichi We celebrated the drop of our Spring 2023 Kitchen Issue “Brooklyn-style” by throwing an epic Dessert Disco with host and Spring Edible Brooklyn...
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Geoff Feder: Sculptor, Knifemaker Geoff Feder came to the utilitarian world of knifemaking through the esoteric vehicle of sculpture, and—though his career wended through blacksmithing and culinary...
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