Christine Sahadi Whelan and I have spoken about her family’s legendary Middle Eastern grocery chain. Born on Atlantic Avenue, Sahadi’s.
The Brooklyn Dining Club is hosting its next event on Aug. 12 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Farina, a new and unique pizza restaurant between Carroll Gardens and Red Hook. Attendees will get a four-course meal (which will include Farina’s famous pizza), hear from owner Michael Turner and sip Italian wine and beer. There are still tickets left, so get yours
Christine Sahadi Whelan and I have spoken about her family’s legendary Middle Eastern grocery chain. Born on Atlantic Avenue, Sahadi’s.
The Brooklyn Dining Club is hosting its next event on Aug. 12 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Farina, a new and unique pizza restaurant between Carroll Gardens and Red Hook. Attendees will get a four-course meal (which will include Farina’s famous pizza), hear from owner Michael Turner and sip Italian wine and beer. There are still tickets left, so get yours
Japan Village offers a wide array of unique foods and products you won’t easily find elsewhere, from fresh sushi fish to Japanese sweets
Meat can be one of the more daunting items on our grocery lists. By this point, everyone knows the industry is far from ideal, but other than going vegetarian, people are still incorporating it as a protein source. In an industry full of jargon and misnomers, it is difficult (if not impossible) to make sense of traditional grocery store options.
HAMILTON AVENUE — The Brooklyn Dining Club held its most recent event at Farina, a pizzeria and restaurant with roots in southern Italy and a storefront tucked under the BQE on Hamilton Avenue at the crossroads of Carroll Gardens and Red Hook. Within the welcoming facade of glass and white brick, in a charming, rustic interior sequestered from the surrounding
Brooklyn might not be the first place that comes to mind when we think of craft sake brewing, but maybe it should be. Brooklyn Kura’s craft sake stands up to the distinguished products coming out of Japan, which says a lot since those have been brewed for hundreds of years, while this humble brewery only opened in 2018. At its
Along Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria, a familiar pattern has emerged: the 18 outdoor dining sheds that had lined the ten blocks adjacent to the subway since 2020 have dwindled down to just three. The scene on Ditmars mirrored restaurant rows across the city over the weekend when contractors with pickup trucks and power tools hit the streets to take down
Edgar Cordova, a rising 12th grader at Xavier High School in Union Square, has spent his summer working in a school kitchen — bagging milk, cleaning tables, and cutting up fruit. But even though he’s surrounded by cooking constantly, he said he was excited to see a firsthand demonstration tailored to students. Last month, he sat among roughly a dozen
Lindsay Wengler is a Brooklyn-based dietician who cuts through the noise and uses her legitimate qualifications to shed light on nutrition.
In late July, the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) hosted a cooking demonstration for young people involved in the program as culinary aides in public school kitchens. The program teaches
In New York City, we’re at the center of the pizza universe. With options on nearly every street corner, it’s easy to think we’re experts on our local delicacy. Speaking
As an Italian, getting an unexpected diagnosis of celiac was a “big shock” for Valerio Arena. Bread and other gluten-containing foods are at the center of Italian cuisine, and, suddenly
The word “fusion” gets tossed around a lot these days. Whether it’s Japanese food with a French twist or a melding of Latin cuisines, it’s not a new concept to
Tell us about your overall platform. My career began hosting the show “Cooking with Nonna“ in 2009, where I was one of the first creators to start cooking with Italian