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Back Forty West Hosts a Cassoulet Festival Tonight, and More Great Events

Monday, February 25 Cassoulet Festival at Back Forty West Peter Hoffman will hold the annual Cassoulet Festival at Soho's Back Forty West starting at 6:30 p.m. Alex Raij of Txikito, Mike Laarhoven of Back Forty, Shanna Pacifico of Back Forty West, Nick Anderer or Maialino, and Tom Mylan of the Meat ... More >>

3 Good Things: Meat Meat Meat

1 Cookbook author and founder of Barbecue University, Steven Raichlen, has published his first novel, Island Apart. It has been described as "The Bridges of Madison Country with better food." [Indie Bound] 2 Tom Mylan, Meat Hook butcher and myth-buster, reminds us that not all steaks are best serve ... More >>

12 Careers Created or Transformed by the Age of Foodism

As we've discussed here many times before, we are in the midst (some might say on the downward slope) of a pop culture bubble, wherein an exorbitant amount of everyone's time and money is spent consuming food, thinking and reading about food, stockpiling food, seeking out new food by hopping from re ... More >>

Food Scandal Exploding -- Literally -- in China; Previewing Smorgasburg

​Recipe search engines, such as the one Google launched earlier this year, are useful for finding recipes. But just how good the recipes are is debatable. [NY Times] Murray's Cheese, which already has a store in Houston, Tex., has signed a deal with supermarket chain Kroger to distribute its ... More >>

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Tom Mylan Doesn't Like Offal, But Likes to Sneak it Into Your Food

Nice tripe.​While Jeffrey's has lately been having a hard time of it in the Essex Street Market, Tom Mylan has been getting his kicks across the East River by sneaking offal into everything he can at the Meat Hook. Mylan owns up to this predilection in a ditty he's penned for the Atlantic Food ... 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 >>

It's National Butchers Week: Celebrate with Meaty Meals, Talks & Primal Cuts

Meat TruckHow do you celebrate meat?​Remember the days when butchers weren't sex symbols with publicists? We can barely recall such a time ourselves. Author Marissa Guggiana, who also happens to be a fourth-generation meat purveyor, is capitalizing on the country's love affair with meat hacker ... More >>

CHOW Announces Its CHOW 13 Awards

​Out in San Francisco, CHOW has just published the results of its second-annual CHOW 13 Awards, designed to honor "the people pushing the food world in new and adventurous directions." While the list skews slightly towards the West Coast, it includes a few easterly types, including the Meat Ho ... More >>

Rock Star Butchers Face a Backlash; Is Sunday Supper the New Sunday Brunch?

​Sunday suppers are replacing brunch as the most important social meal of the weekend. Red Sauce Nights at Hearth, Domenica in Famiglia at Trattoria Cinque, and Sunday Supper at Northern Spy are leading the trend. [Metromix] Tom Mylan fears the people who go to butchering parties just because ... More >>

Tom Mylan Pens an Ode to Knives

Tom Mylan advises on how not to do this.​ On cutting oneself: "I am an expert. I have sliced off thumb tips and fingernails. I have shaved paper-thin wafers of my knuckle and buried a breaking/cimeter knife an inch and a half into my forearm," writes The Meat Hook butcher Tom Mylan in his Atla ... More >>

Posts of the Week

It's Friday afternoon, and thus time for a round-up of the best posts of the week: We listed Our 10 Best Williamsburg Restaurants. Our Man Sietsema stalked the single white truffle. Coolio talked about his new cookbook, Cookin' with Coolio, as well as several other things that should be read to b ... More >>

Part 2 of Our Jimmy Carbone Interview: the Joys of Porchetta, the Folly of Pomegranate Beverages

​Yesterday, we chatted with Jimmy Carbone about the history of his East 7th Street bar and restaurant, Jimmy's 43. Today, Jimmy talks beer, bacon, and his favorite New York meal. At Jimmy's No. 43 you offer more than 40 beers--do you have a favorite? Well, it depends on the season. I actuall ... More >>

Tom Mylan on 'Miami Vice,' Rachael Ray, Guy Fieri, Sake, and his Bachelor Party

Tom Mylan​ Yesterday, The Meat Hook opened, and we ran an interview with butcher Tom Mylan about the meats he's selling there, the tribulations of being called a "rock star butcher," and why butchering isn't as cool as you think it is. Read on to check out the second half of the interview, i ... More >>

Jonathan Safran Foer Speaks Up About 'Eating Animals'

​When Natalie Portman compared eating meat to rape in her Huffington Post account of how reading Eating Animals transformed her from a vegetarian to a staunch vegan, she may have been missing the point. The book, many agree, is less about shunning meat and more about shunning industrially farm ... More >>

The Meat Hook Arrives; Mommy Bloggers Shill for Big Food

​International aid agencies are saying that a United Nations summit on food security that kicked off in Rome today could be a "waste of time" as it won't commit donors to provide more money to end world hunger. [Bloomberg] Companies like Nestle and Frito Lay are offering "mommy bloggers" all- ... More >>

Chatting With Tom Mylan: Date-Night Butchery, the Word 'Hipster,' and Why Butchering Is Not as Cool As You Think It Is

Tom Mylan ​Today, Tom Mylan and his partners Brent Young and Ben Turley opened The Meat Hook, their new butcher shop in the Brooklyn Kitchen Labs. Mylan, formerly of Diner and Marlow and Daughters, has also just started to write about meat for the Atlantic's Food Channel. Read on to find out ... More >>

Tom Mylan Goes on Public Radio, Admits to Vegetarianism

​Yesterday, on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show, recently wedded butcher extraordinaire Tom Mylan revealed that he is a recovering vegetarian. The cleaver-wielding Mylan, whose new establishment, the Meat Hook, is set to open in the next few weeks, spoke to Lehrer about cult butchers and their ris ... More >>

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Scenes from Sunday's New Amsterdam Market

The New Amsterdam Market made an appearance yesterday, transforming South Street into a bustle of shoppers, bags filled with chocolate and kimchi, gourds and cheese, organic meat and New York State wine. The market is now monthly, and the next one will be held on November 22. The big event of the da ... More >>

The New Amsterdam Market Returns This Sunday, Butchers and Beer in Tow

The New Amsterdam Market will make its now monthly appearance at the South Street Seaport this Sunday, the 25th. In addition to its usual vendors, who will sell everything from pickles to poultry, the market is holding a 3 p.m. pig butchering demonstration with Tom Mylan and Joshua Applestone and a ... 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 >>

The Blogroll Gazette: Rating the Fattest Cookbooks By the Pound; A 'Hipstavore' Wedding

This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily took a look at the price-per-pound ration of cookbooks and The Big Fat Duck Cookbook weighed in at 11.6 pounds for $157.50 or $13.58 per pound of book. Midtown Lunch got excited over one of its images being used in Polish Playboy as part of a piece on Taam T ... More >>

Tom Mylan, Josh Applestone, and the Greene Grape to Provide More Porktastic Events This Month

​October is shaping up to be the most porcine of months. On October 25, Tom Mylan, whose Meat Hook is scheduled to open the first week of November, will break down half a pig with his comrade in carrion, Joshua Applestone, at the New Amsterdam Market. Applestone is the proprietor of Fleisher's ... More >>

At Roberta's, A Pea Will Grow in Brooklyn

​Having already tried their hand at rooftop beekeeping, the Roberta's crew is ready to branch out, literally: they're planning a one-acre organic rooftop farm. Tomorrow night they'll be holding a fundraiser to benefit their efforts: starting at 7 p.m., $150 will get you all you can eat and dri ... More >>

Tom Mylan to Open 'Food Dork Megaplex'

​Fork in the Road broke the news last month that cult butcher Tom Mylan was leaving his post at Diner and Marlow & Sons (& Daughters) to strike out on his own. At the time, he said he was planning a "multi-use space." Now, Brooklyn Based has the details: "Now that we have permits and such I gu ... More >>

More About the Brooklyn Kitchen's New Cooking School

​Some more details about The Brooklyn Kitchen's new cooking school, whose upcoming opening was reported by Brooklyn Based: According to Sarah, a Brooklyn Kitchen floor manager, the school, located at 100 Frost Street in Williamsburg, doesn't yet have a firm opening date. "We're still working out c ... More >>

Posts of the Week

It's Friday afternoon, which means it's time to give a little love to the best posts of the week:Sietsema rounded up the 10 Best Food-Themed Shows of all time.LUPEC stands for Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails.Anita Lo has returned from her Mongolian boar hunt, and has no pl ... More >>

Tip From a Pro: How to Roast a Whole Hog Like Tom Mylan

​ He may be one of the few butchers who can claim to have groupies, but that's not the only thing that Tom Mylan can brag about. He also roasts a pretty mean pig. In a homemade pit constructed of cinder blocks and filled with charcoal, the venerated butcher of Diner, Marlow & Sons, and Marlow ... More >>

Says Marlow & Daughters' Butcher Extraordinaire Tom Mylan: "I'm Quitting!"

​ First came word that Bonita, Andrew Tarlow and Mark Firth's Mexican joint in Williamsburg, was closing. Then, the founding chef of the Diner/Marlow & Sons family, Caroline Fidanza, announced she was leaving to start her own restaurant. Now, cult butcher Tom Mylan reveals that he too is brea ... More >>

More Mylan Mayhem: Mylan Injured, but Still Able to Type

A friend of Fork in the Road tells us that Tom Mylan was injured yesterday while trying to feed 600 people during 3rd Ward's Pig Roast and Dance Party; according to Mylan's Facebook page, he was at the hospital around 8 p.m., and then popped up about 15 minutes later with the message "...sorry I ble ... 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 >>

The 'Bag Not Down with Times Piece on City Slaughterhouses

Photo borrowed from The New York Times The Feedbag was not impressed with a Times story published this past weekend on New York's urban slaughterhouses, saying it romanticized the unclean, unethical establishments. Quoth the 'Bag: "These places are filthy, nightmarish hellholes, and the smell of ... More >>

The Blogroll Gazette--Grub Street on Citi Field and The 'Bag on F&W's 2009 Best New Chefs

Grub Street showcased its "crucial culinary map" of where to eat at Citi Field, highlighting DannyMeyerLand, Acela Club and the World's Fare Market. [Grub Street] The 'Bag asked Citysearch editors to weigh in on Food & Wine's 2009 Best New Chef picks. Boston editor Christine Liu agreed that Barry M ... More >>

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