Intern, Jennifer Salenger, reminisces about her culinary adventures in Japan as Halloween is upon us. Even as an adventurous foreigner in Tokyo, I didn’t have in mind something I like to call the “Stinky Spider-webbed Beans”, officially known as Natto. Natto are fermented soybeans that have been produced and eaten on the Japanese Archipelago for [...]

Happy Halloween! For all of you party animals, The Dish’s Dishes has a festive punch that can be made at the last minute to spice up any Halloween festivity. The sugar and spice combination will have even the oldest spirits coming back for more. The key ingredient for is a throwback to the old days—Tang™! [...]

When I was told about the Date Brownie at Murray’s Cheese, I was immediately skeptical. A brownie without chocolate isn’t very promising. However, the Murray’s wrapper boldly states, “Forget Chocolate!” Opening the package revealed something that looked more like a blondie than a brownie, with its golden, flaky top. But biting down into the gooey [...]

I came across the Ice Cream Social set at Garber Hardware a few weeks ago and immediately became fascinated by it. The set of four multicolor tumblers with built-in straws plus one plastic ice cream scoop is a genius new packaging of old Arrow Plastics products. Naturally, I began to reminisce about my first ice [...]

A recent visit to the Greenmarket in Union Square startled me with spooky Halloween-like vegetables! We shift seasons with strange hybrids and farmers who let nature run its course. Here’s a guide to a few items that will add to your bloodcurdling biodynamic buffet! These days, you’ll find regal-looking purple broccoli resting up next to [...]

The piopinno mushroom is a widely used fungus in Asia as well as through Italy and Spain. It is grown near poplar trees, and thus gets the nickname of a Black Poplar ‘shroom. They have a small, smooth, auburn cap with a long white stem. They grow in clusters much like enoki mushrooms, many white [...]

The Arbequina olive grows 1300 feet above sea level in the Spanish city Jumilla. Jumilla has gained recognition in the wine world for its delicious monastrell-based reds made from grapes grown in extremely arid conditions. This severe weather intensifies the fruit, and it also does wonders for the olives. Jorge Ordoñez, the utmost wine importer [...]

A while back, my boyfriend and I were hosting a house of friends at a vacation cottage on the North Fork. We spent the week fishing, grilling clams, and eating pie. On our last morning, I wanted to make something special for breakfast—not that leftover pie each morning wasn’t delicious… Though I’d never made one [...]

Keith’s Farm, a regular Greenmarket presence, is known for its rocambole garlic. In the summer, their double curl rocambole scapes take the lime light, and as fall comes, it’s the bulbs that steal all the attention. This type of garlic is very easy to peel due to its loose skin. Each bulb usually has about [...]

It has quickly become the end of tomato season, and we find ourselves moving quite fast into the savory harvest of fall. Not all hope is lost for our heirloom obsessions though. In this in between moment of the year, try combining the crunchy and the cured. A salad at Blue Hill at Stone Barns [...]