Slow Food International

It's Crawfish Season at Willow Road

Monday, April 8 Willow Road Crawfish Boil Guest chef Jason Hua of The Dutch joins the Willow Road crew for a late-night all-you-can-eat crawfish boil. Feast on fingerling potato salad, andouille dirty rice, and loads of sides for $20. Add another $10 for all-you-can-drink Labbat brews. E-mail reser ... More >>

6th Annual Choice Eats Announced -- Save the 2013 Date!

The Village Voice and Fork in the Road are proud to announce the date for the Sixth Annual Choice Eats tasting event. Tickets will be on sale shortly, so please mark the date on your calendar: Tuesday, March 19, 2013. As in the previous four years, the gala event will be held at the 69th Regiment A ... More >>

SURVIVAL SKILLS

Foraging for a good time

Foreign Policy Weighs in on the World's Stupidest Food Fads

​Foreign Policy has just published its very first food issue. As you might expect from a publication better known for its discussions of AIDS in South Africa and the effect on economic stagnation upon democracy, it doesn't feature pretty pictures of unsmiling Bay Area artisans or Proustian rec ... More >>

Choice Eats Returns!

It's that time of year again!​ Mark your calendars immediately for the city's best and yummiest-tasting event of all time. Now in its fourth year, Choice Eats is back and better than ever. Prepare to chow down on food from over 50 of New York City's finest restaurants from all five boroughs, ... More >>

Malcolm Livingston 'In' at WD~50; Camille Becerra 'Out' at APL is SOL

​In the Michael White-Chris Cannon divorce, the Marea, Osteria Morini, and Ai Fiori chef will get custody of chef de cuisines Matt Adler and Gordon Finn. [Grub Street] Christophe Bellanca, the Le Cirque and BLT alum who took over from Chris Lee at Aureole, started just after the New Year and ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Alchemy Behind the Bar; Whole Hog, Broken Down & Served

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Holiday Window Unveiling Dylan's Candy Bar Monday, November 8 at 6 p.m. The kiddies will love you for this one: it involves Santa, candy, and curtains... and it's n ... More >>

Dealing with Canada Geese: Make Lunch, Not Landfills

Bill Allen1/flickrDinner, anyone?​This summer, New York State announced a plan to help control its Canada Goose population by eliminating some 170,000 birds through gassing, hunting, and birth control. In Prospect Park, some 400 geese were rounded up and euthanized, their bodies then tossed in ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Burlesque Cocktail Hour; Cooking Canada Goose

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Drunken Dragon Nights Macao Trading Co. Monday, October 25 at 11 p.m. Calamity Chang and her sexy cohorts are back for another evening of burlesque cabaret, featuri ... More >>

Timmy O's Is Beloved by Foodies. So Where Are the Crowds?

Ken MaldonadoTim O'Leary keeps watch over the sidewalk outside his shop.​On a recent Sunday evening, a teenager came into Timmy O's Frozen Custard and waited nervously by the door. When owner Timmy O'Leary offered him a custard sample, he declined, opting for a cheeseburger. Another young guy ... More >>

Mario Batali's Eataly Single-Handedly Battles Unemployment Rate

mariobatali.comIf the signature shoe fits....​ Know any Italian-speaking clog lovers who adore Mario Batali and want in on his new culinary megaplex? They're in luck! Eataly is staffing up, if a Craigslist chock-full of ads -- 81 in total -- is any indication.

Discovering East End Clam Pie

​Escaping the smell of freshly baked garbage for the breeze of a Long Island beach is an integral part of a New York summer. If you find yourself there, keep an eye out for clam pie. It's a specialty of Long Island's East End, one of the oldest dishes of the area. We found one--homemade, froze ... More >>

ULTIMATE BBQ

Welcome to meat-lovers' paradise

What's Happening This Week: Natural Wines; Slow Food

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! The Wines You Should be Drinking Astor Center June 28, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Andrew Fisher knows from wines. After all, he's been the president of Astor Wines for more ... More >>

Governors Island Opens This Saturday, Braces Self for Next Month's Meatopia

The calm before the storm.​To the great joy of those of us who enjoy consuming food on large swaths of grass, Governors Island will be open to the public beginning this Saturday, June 5. Water Taxi Beach will return with its line-up of burgers and wieners. They will provide but a prelude to th ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Latin Food Fest; a Sandwich Seminar

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Rayuela's Third Anniversary Throughout June Rayuela Even though this Lower East Side restaurant is the one celebrating a birthday, you get the gift. Throughout ... More >>

Chatting With Beth Ann Simpkins About Pulino's Pizza, Bi-Coastal Pizza Obsession, and Her 100 Percent Carbohydrate Diet

Beth Ann Simpkins (left) and Ruth Kaplan are at the helm of Pulino's pizza program.​When Pulino's opens next Monday, it will doubtless draw a stampede of pizza obsessives intent on making their own pronouncements on the pies that emerge from the restaurant's vast ovens. But while plenty of peo ... More >>

Own a Piece of Your Favorite Chef: Slow Food NYC Auctions Tools of the Trade

What would you give for this man's jacket?​ Some people throw their underwear onstage at Tom Jones (or Guy Fieri). Others stand in line for hours to get a copy of their favorite cookbook signed. If you're a die-hard fan of some of the chefs this city has produced, now's your chance to own a pi ... More >>

Jimmy's No. 43's Jimmy Carbone Talks Good Beer, Cassoulet Cook-offs, and Loving the Locavores

​ "Do you mind if we talk in here?" Jimmy Carbone gestures to his narrow basement kitchen at Jimmy's 43, outfitted with hot plates, metal racks holding dishes, and wooden chopping boards. Carbone already has the onions out, waiting to be diced for a peperonata he's making for this evening's Ho ... More >>

Tips From the Pros: When Butchering a Lamb, Don't Forget the Glands

fiskfisk/flickr​Master butcher Rudi Weid welcomed several dozen home cooks to the Institute of Culinary Education this past weekend to show them how to break down a whole lamb carcass. The 110-pound humanely and sustainably raised animal from Three Corner Field Farm in Shushan, New York, was t ... More >>

Forget Whole Hog. Watch Rudi Weid Butcher a Lamb (While You Eat Another)

fiskfisk/flickr​If watching Tom Mylan and Joshua Applestone break down half a hog isn't enough carcass for you, head over to the Institute of Culinary Education on November 8 to see master butcher Rudi Weid expertly hack up 110 pounds of humanely and sustainably raised lamb from Three Corner F ... More >>

Michelin Touts 'Famously Anonymous' Reviewers; Like Slow Food? Try Slow Money.

​The next Michelin guide for New York will have 18 new stars awarded to restaurants. An ad campaign for the new guide is touting its "famously anonymous" reviewers. [NY Times] Inspired by the Slow Food movement, some investors are following a Slow Money model, placing their assets into small ... More >>

Jimmy Carbone Explains Why He Won't be Biking to Queens, Staten Island, or the Bronx

dyobmit/flickrYesterday, a New York Times article about this Sunday's Bike to the Bars ride to various Brooklyn and Manhattan bars raised a question: "...seriously, no good beer in Queens, the Bronx or Staten Island?"Jimmy Carbone, owner of Jimmy's No. 43 and one of the creators of the Good Beer Sea ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Grill-off & A Pig Out for Your Outdoor Meat-eating Pleasure

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Good Beer Month Local Grill-off Queens Water Taxi Beach July 21, 6-9 p.m. (rain or shine) Emcee Jimmy Carbone of Jimmy's 43 will be your host as amateur grill c ... More >>

Bar Milano's Wild Culinary Ride

The Denton brothers do it again in Murray Hill

Mama Mia!

New Hearth flames up at theater-district locale

Runaway Ravioli

Batali defector gets innovative on Avenue B

Endangered Bird

A rant about the threat to real fried chicken in Brooklyn

Broke and Loving It

San Franciscans write the book(s) on living lean

Nudies

New Clinton Street trattoria kicks the Spotted Pig's ass

Letters

Feeding Frenzy

From Celebrity Chefs to Gourmet Guerrillas, Americans Confront the Hazards of the Food World

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