Big Apple Life

A collection of posts on Life in the Big Apple along with interviews with foodie friends

Flea & Food Market in Long Island City

Long Island City is home to the newest flea and food market in NYC:  LIC Flea & Food, which will operate every Saturday and Sunday this summer.  and that overlooks the Manhattan skyline. The food and festivities are conveniently located in a 24,000-square-foot lot at the corner of 5th Street and 46th Avenue in the heart of LIC with a view of the Manhattan skyline. It's easy to get to as it's just blocks from the 7, E, M and G trains as well as the East River Ferry and parking across the street.  Buses will run to and from the ferry to the parking lot. Community partners include TF [...]

By |2017-08-31T14:10:59-04:00June 21st, 2013|Rambling, xyz misc|0 Comments
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The James Beard Foundation’s Chefs & Champagne

On Saturday, July 20th, the James Beard Foundation (JBF) will honor multiple James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef, food writer and teacher Andrew Zimmern at Chefs & Champagne New York, the Foundation's annual summer fundraiser in the Hamptons at the Wölffer Estate Vineyard (Wölffer Estate, 183 Sagg Road, Sagaponack, NY 11962). This sumptuous tasting party will feature flowing Champagne, the wines of Wölffer Estate Vineyard, Stella Artois Belgian lager and culinary offerings from a select group of more than 35 renowned chefs, many from JBF Award–winning restaurants. General Admission from 6:00 to 8:30 pm is $200 for JBF Members, $275 for non-members and includes all tastings, silent auction bidding opportunities, [...]

By |2017-08-31T14:11:00-04:00June 20th, 2013|Other happenings, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Big Apple Barbecue Block Party

The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party will take place at Madison Square Park and its surrounding streets on June 8 - 9 with food, music and grilling classes hosted by Kevin Kolman.  Cue experts including Kenny Callaghan, Joe Duncan and fifteen others will be participating. Admission is free to the event, cooking demos, culinary discussions and music performances unless noted otherwise. Food starts at  $9 per plate. For more information, click here.

By |2017-08-31T14:11:00-04:00May 31st, 2013|Rambling, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Charlie Palmer

Charlie Palmer's empire just keeps growing.  Last year he opened the Mystic Hotel and Burritt Room + Tavern (that I just reviewed) right off Union Square in San Francisco and he just released a new cookbook "Remington Camp Cooking."  He's also planning additional expansion in NYC and Las Vegas. I was able to spend time with this busy man when he sat down to lunch with me at the launch of his Big Mag Boeuf Sundays, a special end-of-the-weekend menu at Aureole in New York City.  I was able to to get his responses to our Bite of the Best guest foodie questions: Which specific food product, ingredient or gadget would [...]

By |2017-09-04T17:20:26-04:00May 28th, 2013|Foodie Interviews|1 Comment
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George Geary

George Geary, a former pastry chef for the Walt Disney Company, brings humor, energy and experience to everything he does, whether it be a cooking class, demonstration or appearance. Next week George and I are speaking at Camp Blogaway, the original boot camp for food and recipe bloggers. He's speaking on the truth about being a cookbook author, while I'm discussing a blueprint for putting together a food career. As a cookbook author, he's currently busy working on his tenth book, an historical book on Hollywood bygone restaurants chock full of recipes to be published fall 2014. His most recent book (published last fall) is 150 Best Donut Recipes, while [...]

By |2017-09-04T18:10:20-04:00May 14th, 2013|Foodie Interviews|0 Comments
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Barbara Sibley

With Cinco de Mayo this weekend, we decided it was the perfect time to feature cookbook author, restaurateur and friend Barbara Sibley, who was born and raised in Mexico City. She's chef owner of LaPalapa restaurant serving authentic Mexican cuisine; the author of Antojitos: Festive and Flavorful Mexican Appetizers (Ten Speed Press) and a fellow Dame (a member of the Les Dames d'Escoffier, a philanthropic society of professional women leaders in the food, fine beverage and hospitality fields). I first met Barbara at Share’s annual A Second Helping of Life a few years ago, as she was one of the guest chefs who was sampling her refreshing Sopa de Aguacate [...]

By |2017-09-03T13:09:57-04:00April 30th, 2013|Foodie Interviews|0 Comments
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Mother’s Day Chocolate Class, NYC

Make Mother’s Day extra sweet with Perugina’s chocolate school at La Scuola Grande (Eataly, 200 Fifth Avenue @ 23rd Street, NYC) hosted by cookbook author Francine Segan, Saturday, May 11 --- 2:00 to 3:30 pm Perugina — known worldwide for its Baci candy and commitment to the art of creating quality confections — invites you to attend the chocolate class where you will create your very own hand-crafted Baci and also explore a guided tasting of specialty chocolate bars as well as gain a deeper understanding about this popular ingredient. You'll.... Meet chocolate expert & class instructor, Francine Segan, trained at the legendary Perugina La Scuola del Cioccolato in Perugia [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:19:25-04:00April 28th, 2013|Other happenings, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Taste of Tribeca, NYC

The Taste of Tribeca is  an outdoor culinary festival that celebrates downtown local flavor. Now in its 19th year, this annual event will take place on Saturday, May 18th from 11:30am to 3pm, on Duane Street (between Greenwich and Hudson Street) in Tribeca. All proceeds from the event will ensure the continuation of arts and enrichment programs at local public schools, PS 150 and PS 234. The festival will bring together Tribeca’s top chefs and restaurants, including Tribeca Grill, Landmarc, Kutsher’s Tribeca, Bubby’s, The Palm, Blaue Gans, Duane Park Patisserie and newcomers, such as Dirty Bird To Go and Aamanns-Copenhagen. In addition to restaurant tastings, there will be a special [...]

By |2017-09-03T08:11:40-04:00April 26th, 2013|Rambling|0 Comments
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Kick-Off Cocktail Party to Benefit Taste of Tribeca

This year’s 19th Annual Taste of Tribeca kicks off with a cocktail party on Wednesday, May 1st from 6-9pm at Macao Trading Company at 311 Church Street, New York, NY 10013; 212.431.8750.  This exclusive event starts the celebration of local downtown flavor. The spirited evening will include special cocktails created by Steve Olson, aka wine geek, along with exotic hors d’oeuvres provided by Macao, including Mushroom & Truffle Croquettes, Macanese Chili Prawns, Veal & Lamb Meatballs with Francesinhas Sauce,and Mini Chicken Dumplings in chili oil. Cocktail Party tickets are $75 per person and include a General Taste Ticket to Taste of Tribeca on May 18th. All proceeds will ensure the [...]

By |2017-08-31T14:11:00-04:00April 20th, 2013|Other happenings, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Flavors from Spain: Two Pop Ups at Openhouse Gallery

Openhouse Gallery is a food-loving event space specializing in pop ups. This month they are hosting two Spanish dining pop ups at its location off the Bowery. The first — happening from April 18-20 — celebrates the opening of Chef Jonah Miller’s restaurant Huertas. Miller will be serving a bevy of pintxos,  finger-food from northeast Spain. Pulpo gallego, jamón and peas, and white anchovy with green olive and pickled peppers are just three examples of the traditional Spanish snacks on the menu. Anthony Belliveau-Flores of Rowan Imports will be serving two Spanish ciders from the Asturias region along with the pintxos. Traditionally, these ciders are poured from a height with [...]

By |2017-08-31T14:11:00-04:00April 15th, 2013|Rambling, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Regina Ragone

My friend Regina Ragone, Food Director for Family Circle, brings more than twenty years of nutrition expertise to the magazine. She had served as the test kitchen director for Ladies Home Journal magazine, was an assistant manager at the Global Consumer Food Center of the Campbell Soup Company and was food editor for both Weight Watchers magazine and the Weight Watchers Publishing Group. As a registered dietitian, Regina has dedicated her career to educating people on the benefits of eating healthy foods. She is the author of Win the Fat War cookbook and Decadent Diabetic Desserts and co-author of Meals that Heal. In March, she started a monthly column in [...]

By |2017-09-04T19:54:51-04:00April 14th, 2013|Foodie Interviews|0 Comments
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Hamptons Restaurant Week April 2013

Hamptons Restaurant Week runs from Sunday, April 7 to Sunday, April 14, 2013, featuring a variety of participating restaurants offering a 3-course prix fixe lunches for $19.95 and dinners for $27.95 all night, except for Saturday when it will only be offer until 7pm.  For additional information, click here. -guest contributor

By |2017-08-31T16:19:26-04:00April 6th, 2013|Other happenings, USA Restaurants, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Kristine Kidd

Kristine Kidd — who was food editor of Bon Appetit for 20 years — just released her newest cookbook Weeknight Gluten Free, a sequel to her best-selling Weeknight Fresh & Fast. Kristine's childhood celiac disease resurfaced recently, and she spent a year experimenting in her kitchen before writing this book. This beautiful full-color book contains over 100 of her favorite naturally gluten-free recipes, emphasizing quick, flavor-packed inventive dishes based on seasonal fresh produce. Weeknight Gluten Free contains mouth-watering photographs — ones so inspirational that they made me want to stop reading and head to the kitchen to cook, even though I don't need gluten-free foods. Yes, it's that gorgeous and creative. [...]

By |2017-09-04T15:40:24-04:00March 31st, 2013|Foodie Interviews|0 Comments
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10 Foods That Are Delicious No Matter How You Say It

Imagine this. You’re out to dinner with some friends. You see some awesome new dish with some weird new ingredient you’ve read about on your food blog (you’re pretty cultured after all). You’re dying to try it, but you have no idea how to even pronounce it. You call over the waiter and give it a shot. It’s a massacre of the English language. Plates drop, silverware clinks and the entire restaurant points and laughs at you until you run home and cry into your giant pillow. It’s OK. This is why you order food online. No phones, no talking, no pronunciation. Order that weird dish with too many vowels [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:19:26-04:00March 25th, 2013|Other happenings, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Rozanne Gold

The amazing Rozanne Gold is a celebrated chef, author and restaurant consultant who helped shape America's culinary landscape as a pioneer in the food revolution that began in the 1970s. She began her career at the age of 23 in Gracie Mansion as first chef to New York Mayor Ed Koch. As Chef-Director of Baum + Whiteman, a renowned hospitality group, Rozanne helped create two of New York's most celebrated (and highest grossing) restaurants: the Rainbow Room and Windows on the World. She's also the author of a dozen cookbooks with her newest "Radically Simple: Brilliant Flavors with Breathtaking Ease" being named one of the most important books of the [...]

By |2017-08-31T16:19:26-04:00March 18th, 2013|Foodie Interviews, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Arthur Schwartz, The Food Maven

Arthur Schwartz and I met in the '80s when we were both food editors. Arthur was the restaurant critic and executive food editor of the New York Daily News; I was the food editor of the New Haven Register. That was so long ago. Arthur  — known as the food maven — may best be known as a radio personality who for 13 years broadcast Food Talk with Arthur Schwartz daily on WOR. Maven, by the way,  is the Yiddish word for connoisseur. And that he is. In fact, Arthur's been referred to as  “a walking Google of food and restaurant knowledge.” You can walk with him and tap that knowledge, as [...]

By |2017-09-04T19:47:51-04:00March 3rd, 2013|Foodie Interviews|1 Comment
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Atlantic City Restaurant Week March 2013

Atlantic City Restaurant Week runs from Sunday, March 3 to Saturday, March 9, 2013,  featuring participating restaurants with selected prix-fixe lunches for $15.13 and dinners for $33.13 . Prices are per person and do not include beverage, tax, or gratuity. For additional information or to see a full listing or participating restaurants and their menus, click here. -guest contributor

By |2017-09-01T15:02:07-04:00March 2nd, 2013|Other happenings, USA Restaurants, xyz misc|0 Comments
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Dana Cowin, Editor In Chief, Food & Wine

Dana and I became better acquainted after I had invited her to be a panelist on an "Effective Marketing Pitches" media panel at a regional meeting I spearheaded for the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) in 1996. That was just after she became the Food & Wine's Editor In Chief and the beginning of our friendship. Food & Wine magazine has two significant milestones this year. It's the magazine's 35th anniversary and  the 25th anniversary of their Best New Chefs program.  "We're creating amazing editorial around both of these," explained Dana. "Right now, I'm reading through 35 years to create the Cliff Notes of F&W." Which specific food product, [...]

By |2017-09-03T13:03:32-04:00February 16th, 2013|Foodie Interviews|0 Comments
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FOODACTS: A New Play at The Lion Theatre

Jeux de Mots trans.WORDPLAY presents FOODACTS a new play at the Lion Theatre (410 West 42nd Street) conceived and directed by Barbara Bosch with only 16 performances, February 6-24, 2013. FOODACTS is a culinary stage adventure that explores our primal connections to food and its power to unite. Through an entertaining encounter with established novels, colorful poetry, historic essays, personal letters and other literary works by Langston Hughes, Proust, Homer, and Dickens, among others, FOODACTS serves up the joys of food and eating. It goes beyond the mere palate, revealing how human beings relate to and obsess over food from as far back as The Bible to today. Barbara Bosch [...]

By |2017-09-01T15:03:15-04:00January 27th, 2013|Other happenings, Theatre, xyz misc|0 Comments
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