Category Archives: Recipes
4 Neighborhood Butchers, 4 Neighborhood Recipes
When anyone asks me what’s so great about food in Queens, here’s what I tell them: that people here know how to cook and, as a result, they know what great food tastes like. Now, I’m not talking about hipsters … Continue reading
Filed under Flushing, Neighborhoods, Recipes, Sunnyside, Uncategorized, Woodside
Recipe: Handmade Pasta, a Simple Pleasure on a Winter’s Day
What’s your pleasure? Food is such a rich topic and there are so many ways to engage with it to seek joy – learning about a dish’s culture of origin or history, picking up and trying out a new technique, … Continue reading
Recipe: Green Beans with Tofu
Do you ever get a hankering for a certain taste sensation and texture? The other day, I had a sudden craving to eat blistered – almost charred – vegetables sauteed with garlic, preferably made fiery by the addition of something … Continue reading
Filed under CSA, Farms, Jackson Heights, Recipes, Sunnyside
The Real Deal – a Bakewell Pudding from Bakewell, Derbyshire
In August of this year I wrote a piece investigating the culinary habits of the early Quakers of Flushing and learned much about the prominent Bowne Family who were the agricultural, civic and spiritual leaders of this area during the … Continue reading
Recipe: Zucchini Stuffed with Brown Rice and Chorizo
This is the season to go on a wild shopping spree. Fresh local produce has arrived! If the sight of colorful, fresh vegetables sets your pulse running, head over to the Queens Botanical Garden Farmer’s Market and fill up … Continue reading
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