Posted By bbinns on May 28, 2009
After the irreverent early-May event that was the Duckathlon ’09, I thought it might be nice to visit Ariane and Lily in their own lair, so last week I made my way to the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark (clearly, worth its own, separate visit). Half a block from the gates of D’Artagnan’s home base, as […]
Posted By bbinns on May 19, 2009
This post’s title should be an oxymoron. The lover of green things, the woman who yearns to bite into a fig from her own tree, courts heartbreak if she moves from place to place, never stopping long enough to allow the growth of deep and clinging roots. Gardening is by definition a pursuit for those […]
Posted By bbinns on May 11, 2009
Today, I hand Roadfoodie over to New American farmer (and Turkish kilim expert) Peter Davies. For the last nine years, he and his partner Mark Scherzer, an attorney specializing in health advocacy, have farmed 39 acres in Germantown, New York with the aid of one part-time employee. Both still have active non-farm careers; neither had […]
Posted By bbinns on May 7, 2009
I apologize for the break in this instructional series—it was crucially important that I go and get crazy with a bunch of duck-quoting, foie-eating chefs in a cavernous room behind Chelsea Market. It’s a tough job. But now, it’s back to fat-world: Once my lard has been strained and clarified, by removing the juices from […]
Posted By bbinns on May 5, 2009
Imagine my extreme pleasure at receiving an invitation to act as a judge in the super-secret, not-open-to-the-public, chefs-gone-wild event that preceded the serious business of Beard this past weekend. Now in year five, D’Artagnan’s duck-in-cheek challenge pits teams from New York’s finest kitchens—Daniel, Le Cirque, Tribeca Grill, craft, Bar Boulud, to name just a few […]
Posted By bbinns on May 4, 2009
Those of us who love pigs—alive and cooked—were feeling a little under the weather last week. The headlines from Egypt hurt me viscerally: 300,000 innocent pigs slain, not to feed the hungry, of which there are many on that vast continent, but out of sheer ignorance. I did my bit on Facebook to promote better […]
