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Eat for Charity! "Let Us Eat Local," September 9 in NYC

There's a great event coming up next month at Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City. Some of New York's best chefs (Tom Colicchio, Bill Telepan) will be preparing food grown within 250 miles of the cit...

NYC News: New Classes at the French Culinary Institute

The French Culinary Institute in downtown Manhattan is offering new, single-session classes for those non-professional cooks who just want to learn more about a specific subject, whether it's wine or ...

Slow Spirits: Mixing Drinks the "Slow Food" Way
Straight Up Cocktails

Here at The Kitchn, we've posted before about the international "Slow Food" movement: using quality local ingredients from growers and suppliers with fair, sustainable practices. But what about applyi...

Escaping New York: Have You Visited Your CSA Farm?

It's easy to forget that the CSA share you pick up every week in the city comes from a rural, grassy, no-taxis-in-sight farm. In some cases, it's just an hour or two away... ...

NYC Event: Tomorrow! Michael Pollan at P.S. 1

MoMA P.S. 1 in Long Island City is hosting Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, tomorrow night. He'll be speaking outside at P.F. 1, the urban farm exhibit that'...

Straight Up: How to Create Your Own Cocktail Recipes

Over the past few months here at The Kitchn, there’s been a lot of talk of “cooking by feel” - of bypassing the comfortable authority cookbooks often seem to offer, and taking a more creative a...

NYC Event: Cook with These Top Chef Contestants!

So, you love to cook, and you're a little starstruck, too... The Culinary Institute of America has just the activity for you. Capitalizing on the popularity of Top Chef, the CIA at Astor Cen...

NYC Event: Food Film Festival Starts Saturday!

Just a few months ago, we told you about a food film festival happening in NYC. So when we heard about yet another food film festival, we said yeah, yeah, this is becoming a trend, and didn't pay it t...

NY Note: Bar Basics and Mixology Classes at the Astor Center

We're confident in our abilities to make a pretty gosh-darn good cocktail, but our creations look pretty humble when compared to the potables from the mixology wizkids at NYC's poshest bars. They brin...

Tonight in NYC! Panel on Food Literacy at The New School

This is a last-minute heads up, but if you are free tonight, there is a discussion at The New School titled "What's for Dinner? The Rise of Food Literacy." Get some insight into all of those words ...

NYC Events: Free Knife Skills Demo, and Other Hands-on Classes

Whenever we encounter someone who likes cooking but doesn't quite love it, one of two things is almost certainly true. Either they're not cooking with a sharp knife, or they don't really know how to u...

Learn How To Butcher in Brooklyn

Our friends at The Brooklyn Kitchen just posted a new series of classes including Lamb and Pig Butchering. Next month Grocery Guy Tom Mylan will show how to cut up a half a pig and a whole lamb. He'...

NYC Event: Umami Festival This Week

The Umami Festival brings together artists who use food as a medium with more traditional culinary events like chef roundtables and wine tastings. The festival ends this week, but there are some inter...

NYC Events: Chocolate Walking Tour, Conference on Food in Schools, Coffee and Tea

It might finally be spring in New York! Today is supposed to be in the high 60s, so naturally we're already looking towards the weekend and hoping for some foodie outings. ...

NYC Weekend: Colorware Sale + Jewish Cooking

What are you up to this weekend NYC cooks? Here's some events for your to-do list ... Fishs Eddy's spring bright Colorware is on sale for 25% off from now until Sunday at their store in the Flatiron....

NYC Event: CSA Conference March 29th

We're big fans of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) here at the Kitchn. So big that it seems like a lifetime to wait until the first delivery from our local farms arrives in June. Until then, we'r...

NYC Weekend Events: City Chickens, Green Gardens, and Bronx Beekeeping

There are several great events for New York food-lovers this weekend. We noted in the Arts Currents feature of the NY Times their listings of these events: Edible NYC and expert city farmers will be a...

NYC Event: Chocolate + Beer at Whole Foods Tonight

Two of our favorite things! The Bowery Whole Foods Market (95 East Houston St.) is hosting a class on pairing chocolate and beer at 7 p.m. tonight Bowery Store. Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery a...

Cookies for Kids Cancer

Like to bake cookies? Like to eat cookies? You can help Band of Parents in their fight against childhood neuroblastoma and other cancers that affect infants and children. This holiday season Band of...

NYC Kitchen Events: Meet Padma, Vegetarian Thanksgiving Class

Cherry Pie II by Vic Vicini • Meet Padma Lakshmi: Padma Lakshmi, host of Bravo's Top Chef, will discuss the origins of the recipes in her new book "Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet: A World of Recipe...

NYC Kitchen Events: Hudson Valley Fest, Support A Seaport Market

Mixed Vegetables by Delilah • Hudson Valley Wine and Food Fest: Take a day trip to this celebration of wine, food and music in the Catskill countryside. The Fest will be held 9/8-9/9 at the Du...

NYC Kitchen Events: Cookbook Raffle, Tribeca Walking Tour

A New Day by Carol Nelson • Cookbook Raffle: From now until September 3, Baking and Books is hosting a virtual cookbook raffle to support the Jewish Environmental Bike Ride. Baking and Books i...

NYC Event: Win Your Weight In Heirloom Tomatoes!

Bradley Farm will host "Ray's Heirloom Tomato Festival" on August 26 from noon to 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 each or three for $20. The farm is located near New Paltz, NY. For more information, call (84...

NYC Kitchen Events Calendar: Knife Skills

Cherry Tomato by LC Neil • Knife Skills at The Brooklyn Kitchen: Chef Brendan McDermott will show proper knife techniques and philosophies in this hands-on class. He will cover proper finger p...

NYC Kitchen Events Calendar: Cooking with Chile Peppers

Single Cherry #2 by Michael Naples • Cooking with Herbs and Chile Peppers: Discover the remarkable diversity of peppers with Horticultural Interpreter Charles Day and sample dishes featuring fr...