Greetings, Noshers! You may remember that I mentioned Ramp Fest 2013 a few weeks ago – well, today I’m excited to recap this scrumptious event! I made the day trip up to Hudson, NY, on an absolutely gorgeous day to celebrate this garlicky, pungent spring vegetable.
Ramp Fest took place at the Basilica Hudson, a 19th century industrial factory transformed into an event and festival space – it was such a bright and soaring event space to celebrate the ramp: (more…)
Happy Monday, Noshers! Hope you had a wonderful weekend! NYC-area readers, did you get to enjoy the lovely weather?
Today I’m excited to share my experience at a Springtime Past Making Class I attended recently at Giovanni Rana Pastificio & Cucina! Located in one of my favorite foodie places, Chelsea Market, Giovanni Rana is a warm and inviting Italian restaurant with a friendly, family vibe: (more…)
Happy Tuesday, Noshers! Hope you’ve had a great start to this week. How was your weekend? I had a lovely time at Ramp Fest (stay tuned for my re-cap post!) and got to enjoy the amazing weather. I feel like Spring is finally here!
Today, I’m excited to share a really fun experience I had at Sweet Savoring‘s French Cooking class. A relatively new company, Sweet Savoring offers authentic cultural cooking classes, often taught by grandmas – my fave! Yes, the cooking class I attended was taught by a French grandma and I was absolutely smitten 
. We prepared leek soup, endive salad, a fantastic fish, and chocolate mousse. Yum! Intrigued? Keep reading…
Our instructor telling us all about leeks!
The evening started out with introductions – Chef Isabelle was accompanied by her lovely daughter as well. It was great to hear about their family story! Here, they are accompanied by Sweet Savoring founders Jamila and Taiese: (more…)
Greetings, Noshers! Man, I feel like a broken record, but this is one more week that just seems non-stop! I attended some really fun events this and last week (French cooking class, anyone? How about pasta making class or a prosciutto party?) and just need to find the time to write the posts to tell you all about them! But today, I’d like to share with you an event that I will be attending this weekend, that I am SUPER excited about!
Yes – a festival all about the beloved and much-touted ramp! On Saturday, May 4th, the city of Hudson, New York, will host the third annual Ramp Fest, a celebration of the arrival of spring’s first forageable delicacy! For the uninitiated, the ramp is a member of the onion family – to me, I imagine it to be the delectable love-child of a spring onion and garlic. Yum! Ramp Fest will feature delicious food, drinks, and live music. Fun!!
And just to really make your mouths water, I’ve been given a little preview of some of the restaurants, chefs and delectable dishes that will be served at Ramp Fest – here are some of my faves! (more…)
I’m baaaaack! Hello, Noshers! Did you miss me? I missed you! My schedule has been absolutely CRAZY lately – including super delicious (and busy) trips to Charleston and London! I was super excited because it was my first visit to either of those cities. I can’t wait to share some of the delicious nosh I had on my trips with all of you, so stay tuned! But first, I’m excited to tell you about my recent visit to the Our Global Kitchen exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. The AMNH is one of my favorite museums in NYC, and an exhibit all about food? Count me in!
Not your ordinary museum exhibit, Our Global Kitchen explored the science, culture, politics and past, current and future happenings of food. At the very start of the exhibit, an introductory film played on loop and of course I had to stop and watch – mostly to watch the film but partly to sit on these chairs: (more…)
Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled 
Oooh, how romantical! Or something.
Happy Thursday, Noshers! Do you ever feel like you’re running on a hamster wheel and getting nowhere fast? Well, it’s definitely been one of those crazy weeks for me! I’m definitely looking forward to the weekend, when I can catch up on some much-needed sleep and recharge. And what better way to recharge than attend a chocolate paaaaartayy?
Yes, I’ll be attending the Cheers to Chocolate festival this Saturday as press! (Be sure to follow me on instagram or twitter to get the live play-by-play!). Along with an eating buddy, I will be stuffing myself full of chocolate bark, ganache, chocolate-covered bacon (my FAVE), chocolate popcorn, chocolate bananas, chocolate drinks and much more. You drooling yet?
But wait, you don’t just want pictures of the chocolate but you want to actually EAT the chocolate? Well, come join me then! The BAN blog has got the hook-up – use code: bigapple50 to get for 50% off your ticket!! You can purchase your ticket here. You’re welcome 
Hope to see you there!
Cheers to Chocolate
Saturday, February 9th
12-6:30 pm
Location: Hudson Terrace
621 West 46th Street (btw 11th/12th Avenue)
Creamy Mac & Cheese with Pork Belly, anyone?
Late last week, I had the opportunity to attend the Say Cheese Dinner launch event – while Say Cheese isn’t new, their serving dinner is! I’m a big fan of casual comfort food, so I was really excited to try out their new dinner menu. If you follow me on Instagram, some of these photos should look familiar (I came straight from work and couldn’t lug my DSLR that day, unfortunately!).
We were first presented with boozy (sake) creamsicle drinks in lovely little milk bottles – love the paper straw:
Happy Thanksgiving week, Noshers! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year: a time to get together with family and think about all you have to be thankful from the past year – what’s making your list? Of course, I can’t mention Thanksgiving without talking about all the good FOOD that I will be gorging myself on! Speaking of gorgeous gluttony, I’m so excited to share my recap of the New York Chocolate Show that I attended earlier this month! That’s right – a show all about chocolate!! YUM! Are you interested? Keep reading…
I recently was invited to attend an oyster class hosted by W&T Seafood at the Astor Center. I was super excited for several reasons:
Appropriately named “Aw, Shucks: A Hands-On Oyster Primer” (I love puns and giggle at the name of this class every time I think about it), the class was a great introduction to the history of oyster consumption, oyster farming, East vs West coast oysters, wine pairings, and the art of shucking an oyster. With 6 glasses of wine and a dozen oysters in front of me, I was ready to get started!
Our hosts for the evening were:
Happy Tuesday, Noshers! It’s one of my favorite times of year – New York Taste time! I have attended this awesome event for two years now, and I am super excited to be covering it again for 2012!
Photo courtesy of New York Taste
Taking place on Monday, November 5th, New York Taste will feature delicious nosh from 40+ top NYC restaurants, such as Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Le Bernardin, Morimoto, Red Rooster Harlem, Telepan and much much more. Rumor has it Marcus Samuelsson, Morimoto and many others will make personal appearances – another great opportunity for me to stand there awkwardly gawking in awe. And one of the best things about this event (besides all the amazing food) is that a portion of the proceeds from the evening will be donated to City Harvest to help fight hunger. Eating for a good cause!
Over 1,000 guests are expected, with general admission tickets priced at $175. If you are super fancy, VIP tickets can be purchased for $250, and include admission to a special preview hour, access to the VIP lounge, and a VIP gift bag filled with a variety of products, including culinary tools. (I myself will be at the general event with a press pass ). Tickets are on sale at here!
SUPER excited!
Check out my picture-heavy recaps of previous New York Taste events:
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