Sure, Thanksgiving's not for another month. But if you're ditching out on Aunt Edna and cooking in NYC for the holiday, you need to start thinking about your meal ASAP. Which is where the Pop Up Thanksgiving CSA steps in.
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Pop-Up Thanksgiving CSA Makes It Easier To Be A Holiday Food Snob
Talking Farms, Irene, And Eating Local With Just Food's Jacquie Berger
Despite its name, the nonprofit Just Food is about more than just food—it's a network of farmers, educators and volunteers and working together to get all New Yorkers access to locally grown food. With Tropical Storm Irene devastating many farms upstate, Just Food's work is particularly important now—they're working on providing relief funds for many local farms, and looking for all the help they can get. On a slightly happier note, Just Food is also preparing to host their annual Let Us Eat Local event, a giant dinner party featuring chefs from ABC Kitchen, Back Forty, Northern Spy Food Co. and more. LUEL honors local food heroes, like a high schooler raising chickens in the Bronx and a Harlem grandmother who teaches canning classes. We spoke to Just Food's executive director Jacquie Berger about the many ways that New Yorkers can get more involved with their local food system.
How To Help Local Farmers Devastated By Irene
While Tropical Storm Irene may not have hit NYC as hard as it some feared, the storm has caused some serious devastation in other parts of the state, particularly in much of the farmland that supplies Greenmarket shoppers with their heirloom tomatoes and ramps and whatnot. It's still too early to asses the full extent of the losses, but flooding, soil erosion and poor road conditions have all but destroyed some farms upstate, resulting in some heartbreaking stories from small family-owned farms. Governor Cuomo has requested federal assistance to help farmers recover from Irene damages totaling at least $45 million, but some NYC restaurants and food organizations are also banding together to help. Here's how:
Truck-Grown Veggies Hit The Streets
With all the hoopla about urban farming lately, we're always intrigued by new green-leaning projects from cute Brooklyn do-gooders. The Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Local brought aspiring mobile farmers Nick Runkle and Justin Cutter to our attention today, and they need your help.
Architect Designs "Skyscraper Theme Park" For NYC
NYC architect Ju-Hyun Kim has sent along these renderings he created after wondering if the city could have a "vertical-urban-amusement park" (maybe in Queens?). He came up with this sustainable Skyscraper Theme Park, which is split into five major areas: Vertigo World (carousel and observation deck), Fast Land (flume ride, rollercoaster), 360 World (Ferris Wheel, sky promenade), Abyss City (deep city diver), and the Elsewhere Universe (space exploration, science center). Just thinking about Vertigo World is giving us vertigo. Here's what Kim tells us about his idea:
Video: Where Rabbit Soup Comes From
Ever wonder where the main ingredient in that rabbit soup served up at Marlow & Sons was before it landed in your bowl? The Food Curated folk just visited the farm where Marlow (Sons and Daughters) and Savoy in SoHo get their meat from. The good news is it's a local, sustainable farm (run by John Fazio)—no hormones or antibiotics are used and he clearly cares about his product (if you've seen Food, Inc. you know how important this is); the bad news is 400 cute bunnies die a week!
Edward Norton To Run Marathon With Warriors
Edward Norton may run 15 miles twice a day, but does that mean he'll be able to keep up with the three Maasai warriors who will be running alongside him next month at the New York Marathon?
Human Powered River Gym Still Just a Dream in NYC
Yesterday Inhabitat reminded us about that River Gym idea that was, er, floated back in 2005 as part of New York Magazine's contest for forward-thinking gym concepts. Dr. Mitchell Joachim and Douglas Joachim's idea for a floating gym is premised on "transforming wasted human mechanical energy into a useful kinetic gymnasium." Their eco-friendly gym would harness the energy usually lost during New Yorkers' workouts and use it to power boats back and forth across the Hudson and East Rivers.
New Amsterdam Public Market Gets Fresh Tomorrow
Let’s not let the bitter turf war between the Fancy Food Show and the Unfancy Food Show eclipse the other fine food event going down this weekend. Sunday marks the third seasonal New Amsterdam Public market – the winter version was a big hit last December, drawing thousands despite a huge snowstorm. The one day-only event draws fine artisanal food vendors to the plaza fronting the New Market Building down by the South Street Seaport.
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