• 5 Things to Know Before Trying Pies ‘n’ Thighs
  • Brunch and soul food in Brooklyn
  • Ivan Orkin on Life in Japan Before Making Ramen
  • 5 reasons to try Inca Chicken in Bushwick, Brooklyn
  • Your guide to creating the perfect cheese plate
  • Eating in Groups at an Eat-Alone Place
  • Golden Corner Noodles: Authentic Wenzhou Chinese Food in Flushing
  • Five Pastries to Eat at Supermoon Bakehouse
  • Mooncake Mid-Autumn Festival at MOCA
  • Central Brooklyn Food Co-op hopes to deliver “food justice”
5 Things to Know Before Trying Pies ‘n’ Thighs

5 Things to Know Before Trying Pies ‘n’ Thighs

If you’re looking for a classic chicken biscuit that screams dirty south, try Pies ‘n’ Thighs. The soul food restaurant first opened in 2006 in a beer closet with only six stools. Since then, this eatery tried expanding to the Lower East Side — but eventually settled back into its […]

Brunch and soul food in Brooklyn

Brunch and soul food in Brooklyn

Black millennials sporting natural hair sipped mimosas in the name of a good cause on a Sunday afternoon. They gathered at Streets, a Williamsburg restaurant, to enjoy a music, poetry and a bottomless soul food brunch. At noon, the brunch got off to a slow start. But attendees filed in […]

Ivan Orkin on Life in Japan Before Making Ramen

Ivan Orkin on Life in Japan Before Making Ramen

Ivan Orkin went against Japanese tradition in 2007: he opened a ramen restaurant in Tokyo as a white guy from Long Island. To the surprise of many, he quickly became a local celebrity, and was named “Rookie of the Year” by a ramen magazine. Now he makes his mark in […]

5 reasons to try Inca Chicken in Bushwick, Brooklyn

5 reasons to try Inca Chicken in Bushwick, Brooklyn

Savory breasts of Peruvian-style roast chicken. Heaping sides of French fries, yellow rice and more. Sandwiches thick with chopped chicken, fish and sausage. These and the restaurant’s milky “green sauce”—which gives customers a kick of heat in the back of their throats—keep guests coming back. The owners of Inca Chicken […]

Your guide to creating the perfect cheese plate

Your guide to creating the perfect cheese plate

Creating a good-looking cheese plate might seem hard to do, especially for cheese newbies. But Lauren Mossness teaches us how to make it fun and simple. Mossness found her calling in the cheese world while working at a small shop in Montana. Now, she is the manager of Saxelby’s Cheesemongers […]

Eating in Groups at an Eat-Alone Place

Eating in Groups at an Eat-Alone Place

There’s a secret to dining at Ichiran. Even though this ramen restaurant insists that customers dine alone, people are coming in groups in anyway. And they’ve found a way to eat the noodle soup together.  When Lindsay Herz and her two friends decided to try this Brooklyn spot, they each […]

Golden Corner Noodles: Authentic Wenzhou Chinese Food in Flushing

Golden Corner Noodles: Authentic Wenzhou Chinese Food in Flushing

The Chinese scallion pancake is a staple of most Chinese restaurants. It doesn’t vary much from restaurant to restaurant. Usually, they’re round, fried flour pancakes with scallions. But Golden Corner Noodles makes fresh Chinese scallion pancakes differently. The fried pancake is stuffed with ground pork, pickled vegetables and marinated dried vegetables. It’s […]

Five Pastries to Eat at Supermoon Bakehouse

Five Pastries to Eat at Supermoon Bakehouse

People tore apart buttery croissants stuffed with caramelized bananas and bit into soft donuts filled with matcha pudding. Some had flakey cruffins— croissants baked in a muffin tin, rolled in sugar and piped with rotating fillings like baked cinnamon apples or dark chocolate ganache. Supermoon Bakehouse has been open for […]

Mooncake Mid-Autumn Festival at MOCA

Mooncake Mid-Autumn Festival at MOCA

Colorful molded Play-Doh dropped from the plastic mooncake molds into the hands of impatiently waiting children. They squealed in delight. Families weaved through the museum stopping to try the star food: mooncakes. Traditionally, Chinese people hold the Mid-Autumn Harvest Festival to mark the end of a successful Harvest season. They […]

Central Brooklyn Food Co-op hopes to deliver “food justice”

Central Brooklyn Food Co-op hopes to deliver “food justice”

A community group in Central Brooklyn is determined to bring more affordable food products to its work-class community. But after three years of conducting neighborhood surveys, one question still needs to be resolved: How much should a bag of groceries cost? The question was raised during September’s monthly held by […]

 

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The Decline of Chinatown’s Meat Markets

The Decline of Chinatown’s Meat Markets

At 7 a.m. in Manhattan Chinatown, grimy trucks slowly crawl through the narrow streets. Male workers watch as the trucks unload their bloody cargo. Workers chat and yell at each other in both Mandarin and Cantonese as they carry freshly-slaughtered...

 

Flavored Cheese: Is it here to stay?

When NYU sophomore, Alejandra Casillas is looking for cheese to add to her spaghetti she goes to Bedford Cheese Shop on Irving Place. As she scanned the cheese behind the glass counter, her eyes fixated on a crumbly cheese covered crushed red...

 

Brunch and soul food in Brooklyn

Brunch and soul food in Brooklyn

Black millennials sporting natural hair sipped mimosas in the name of a good cause on a Sunday afternoon. They gathered at Streets, a Williamsburg restaurant, to enjoy a music, poetry and a bottomless soul food brunch. At noon, the brunch got...

 

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5 reasons these Yunnan rice noodles are the new ramen

The Rice Noodle is a small Yunnan noodle shop on Bleecker Street in lower Manhattan. It is a new restaurant, started by Yao Tang, a Chinese immigrant from the Yunnan region of China. This ethnically diverse region is rich in spicy food and famous...

 

Dominique Ansel’s Pie Night is Back

Dominique Ansel’s Pie Night is Back

Dozens of people sat at tables outside of Dominique Ansel Kitchen on Thursday evening, where large gold balloons spelled out the words ‘Pie Night.’ Dominique Ansel, the French pastry chef, has hosted six evenings of pie and drinks at his...

 

Happy Hour at Beecher’s Handmade Cheese

Happy Hour at Beecher’s Handmade Cheese

After a hard day’s work, Grace Barber craves comfort food: Beecher’s macaroni and cheese. Her go-to place does cheese in a big way. The centerpiece of this café is an actual cheese-making factory.  “It’s so good, I feel like...

 
 

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How New York City Is Ramping Up Its Compost Efforts

On a quiet Friday morning, volunteer Elizabeth Schad jabs her pitchfork into a mound of browning organic material — including things like leaves, peels, and other food scraps — at the Red Hook Community Farm. Organized into long piles called windrows, the mounds reach about waist-height. They will be turned […]

 
 

The Decline of Chinatown’s Meat Markets

The Decline of Chinatown’s Meat Markets

At 7 a.m. in Manhattan Chinatown, grimy trucks slowly crawl through the narrow streets. Male workers watch as the trucks unload their bloody cargo. Workers chat and yell at each other in both Mandarin and Cantonese as they carry freshly-slaughtered animals out of the trucks. They are moving whole pigs, […]

 
 

Flavored Cheese: Is it here to stay?

When NYU sophomore, Alejandra Casillas is looking for cheese to add to her spaghetti she goes to Bedford Cheese Shop on Irving Place. As she scanned the cheese behind the glass counter, her eyes fixated on a crumbly cheese covered crushed red peppers. The ricotta pepperoncino is a raw sheep’s […]

 
 

5 Reasons to Keep Going Back to Ivan Ramen

5 Reasons to Keep Going Back to Ivan Ramen

In 2015, Ivan Ramen opened on the Lower East Side. Today, it still stands out in a city full of ramen shops, with each dish mixing Japanese and Western cooking styles and ingredients. One dish on the menu is a steaming bowl of original rye noodles, a rich soup made […]

 
 

Can soul food be healthy?

Naliaka Wakhisi, 32, finally got tired of being the only vegan of color in the room. So in 2014, she created a group on meetup.com with hopes of finding her community. Today, Vegans of Color has more than 3,000 members and has hosted more than 70 events. When Wakhisi is […]

 
 

5 reasons these Yunnan rice noodles are the new ramen

The Rice Noodle is a small Yunnan noodle shop on Bleecker Street in lower Manhattan. It is a new restaurant, started by Yao Tang, a Chinese immigrant from the Yunnan region of China. This ethnically diverse region is rich in spicy food and famous for its rice paddies. As the […]

 
 

Vegan nutritionist explains why a plant-based diet can prevent diabetes

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5 Things to Know Before Trying Pies ‘n’ Thighs

5 Things to Know Before Trying Pies ‘n’ Thighs

If you’re looking for a classic chicken biscuit that screams dirty south, try Pies ‘n’ Thighs. The soul food restaurant first opened in 2006 in a beer closet with only six stools. Since then, this eatery tried expanding to the Lower East Side — but eventually settled back into its […]

 
 

Brunch and soul food in Brooklyn

Brunch and soul food in Brooklyn

Black millennials sporting natural hair sipped mimosas in the name of a good cause on a Sunday afternoon. They gathered at Streets, a Williamsburg restaurant, to enjoy a music, poetry and a bottomless soul food brunch. At noon, the brunch got off to a slow start. But attendees filed in […]

 
 

The Economist sells readers on vegan burgers #FeedingTheFuture

Marco Rodriguez stopped by the bright red food truck with his vegan girlfriend. She wanted him to try the free burgers — make that meatless burgers. Then he took a bite. And then, another. “She tricked me!” he said as he finished wiping his fingers. “She wouldn’t tell me why […]