Chocolate Offers a Sweet Escape
Savorique, a gourmet food website, is hosting the first Chocolate Weekend NYC – letting consumers visit local shops and watch chocolate get made.
Topic: Food
via Capital
A Bronx Stop on the Farm Food Chain
The Wholesale Greenmarket seeks markets for local growers, trying to ensure the produce comes "straight from the farm each morning." But the path isn't always smooth.
via City Limits
Battling Hunger in Brooklyn
With food pantries and soup kitchens facing big increases in demand, our reporters fanned out across the borough on a recent afternoon to talk with the needy and those struggling to serve them.
Promoting Pasta in the Park
Chefs from Italy and New York turned Central Park's Rumsey Playfield into a pasta playground as part of a publicity push for Barilla.
Chocolate Maker’s Sweet on Red Hook
After whetting customers' appetite with a pop-up shop in DUMBO, Red Hook's Cacao Prieto chocolate factory is poised open its doors to the public.
Cooking up Healthy Meals With Kids
In The Kids Cook Monday, a weekly two-hour class, children 7 to 12 and their guardians learn how to create simple, healthful meals on a budget.
via New York Daily News
Lunch Lessons at East Harlem School
An executive chef was tapped to create a new cafeteria menu using only fresh ingredients.
Gardening on the Go
Filmmaker Ian Cheney planted a mini-farm in the back of his 1986 Dodge pickup and made a documentary about creative agriculture.