This year's show looks great, anyone else going?

Bronx Bee Honey- Local, seasonal, blow your mind honeys
Cut Brooklyn- Handcrafted, sharp, cool knives right here in Bklyn
Diner Journal- The thoughtful eater’s magazine
Gabriel’s Handmade- Transforming the Northeast’s best pork into pate
Hot Bread Kitchen- Tortillas from actual corn- nothing else, nuff said
Jasper Hill Farm- Some of the finest cheeses in the country, period. (and a cool, humongous project that you want to hear about)
Luminous Kitchens- Fantastic organic, handmade and local snacks
Mast Brothers Chocolate- Insanely good chocolate made by ridiculously nice people, in Williamsburg
McClure’s Pickles- Oh snap! Perfect pickles from the McClure family
NuNu Chocolates- Serious salted caramel chocolates- organic, Brooklyn, yummy
Salvatore Brooklyn- A dreamy version of ricotta made with local whole cow’s milk
Shameless Carnivore author Scott Gold- Signing copies of his meat manifesto
Sixpoint Craft Ales- Brewskies from Brooklyn- for realsies
Tamarack Hollow Farm- Mind altering meats- pork many ways plus real chickens
TastebudsNYC- Focused and fun social group sparking all kinds of conversations about food
Taza Chocolates- Organic stone ground chocolates- texture and taste revelations
Wheelhouse Pickles- Seasonal, fleeting, experimental and delicious pickles
Zippy Bee Kay Sera Honey- Golden NY honey from a flamboyant beekeeper

East River Bar
97 South 6th St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
718.302.0511

I've added a new feature to eat out yesterday that allows you link a website. For example, check out Prune that has a link to the New York Magazine review, with a thumbnail of the site. This is particularly useful for bloggers. Link those reviews of the restaurant to eat-out and get more traffic.

Also, thumbnails should be working now for the websites linked from your account. It takes a while to cycle through all of these, but if you see that a thumbnail isn't updated within 24 hours, let me know.

cheers
dB.

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While eating lunch at La Cupesse I discovered the absolute best mustard. It's made by Rochambeau. I couldn't find it in the stores in Samoens, nor could I find anything online about it.

Where can I buy this miracle? And what's your favorite mustard?

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Play with your food!

I am from Alaska, but currently I am living in England.

I have been wondering about all you foodies.  Has the downward spiral of the economy across this country, coupled with the rising costs of food, effecting your eating habits?  Are you eating out less?  Skipping the high quality ingredients for your everyday cooking?  Or has it not caught up to you yet?  Are food expenses still a top priority for you?

Any restaurant owners/managers/chefs/ servers seeing any trends in your respective restaurants?

-Bailey

Friday Food-Interview with dB of Foodcandy.com

The Soho Natural, aka The Dirty Deli on Spring and Greene is closing!  Apparently the deli can no longer afford the lease, which explains they're penny pinching and high prices.  The saddest part is that this Deli is always reliable, and while it appears dirty, everything from here is always yummy and fresh.  Local residents are in an uproar -"Where will I get my morning coffee?  My office is across the street!" cries Linda Maglionico, a resident photo rep.  "But, where will we get our bagels from?" moans Priscilla Hankins, a local sales person from a high end boutique in the hood.

Neighborhood-ers are very sad and are already mourning the loss of their Dirty Deli.  Soon we will have to find a new place to buy breakfast and lunch and afternoon snacks.  Oh where oh where will we go?!?!?!?

Tears.

mishamishka

have you ever had egg whites by a brand called Eggology??  i believe the website is simply: www.eggology.com.  i buy them at my local grocery - it is not your typical egg white - actually has flavor and i don't feel like i'm missing out on anything.  have been substituting it in my recipes in place of eggs too to lowere the fat and cholestorol.  anyone heard of it? i feel like i made this huge discovery bc in my circle of friends, no one had heard of them. they are sooooo good.

Judges and Cooks are still neeed!

to benefit St. Mark School
Sponsored by RUB BBQ

Grillin' On The Bay
New York City's Original Barbecue Contest

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Open to the Public - Free Admission

St. Mark School
Corner of East 18th Street and Avenue Z
Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York

New England Barbecue Society
Sanctioned Grilling Contest
Chicken Breast, Fish, Pork and Chef's Choice

If you're in my friends list on FoodCandy, you should have already received this as a broadcast last week. It's time to roll this out officially.

Broadcasts are pretty cool: they go to your friends only. So you can notify your friends about something worthy going on in a couple of clicks. Use the Broadcast button under Me Me to send a message to your friends. And you can also broadcast random pages on FoodCandy by clicking Broadcast links available all around the site (eg., broadcast an interesting event or a blog post).

The system is based on the unified RSS platform that powers all FoodCandy subscriptions, so you can unsubscribe from broadcast updates by clicking on Subscriptions in Me Me. There's one caveat: in order to block someone specific from your broadcasts you have to de-friend them. They don't get notified, but they might notice that they are no longer friends with you.

cheers
dB.

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Play with your food!

Play with your food-- it's friendly!

Play with your food!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lawrence Kopp/Laura Fenton
 The T.A.S.C. Group (646) 723-4344
larry@thetascgroup.com, laura@thetascgroup.com

New York, NY (April 29, 2008)- Bpeace (The Business Council for Peace) will honor author, public television host, chef and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich with the first ever Economic Impact Award on May 14, 2008 during their third annual fundraising gala. The event will take place from 6:00 to 10:00 pm at Capitale, 130 Bowery, New York City.

The annual event raises funds to facilitate the work of Bpeace, a nonprofit organization devoted to accelerating the growth of female entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict countries, including Afghanistan and Rwanda. CNBC’s Margaret Brennan will emcee the evening, and Nicholas D. Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries will auction items and experiences provided by Ms. Bastianich.

"While Lidia is most recognizable as an Italian food icon, Bpeace is honoring her as an entrepreneurial role model for all women whose families have suffered through violence in their countries, been displaced as refugees, and then channeled their courage to start businesses," said Bpeace chairperson and co-founder Toni Maloney. "Her accomplishments are a testament that women, such as those in our program, can build strong businesses that foster peace, prosperity and stability in their communities."

Tickets for the event start at $500. For more information about the Bpeace gala, or to purchase tickets, please visit: www.bpeace.org/gala.

About Lidia Bastianich
Lidia Bastianich immigrated to the United States in 1958 with her family under the sponsorship of Catholic Charities after living in "displaced refugee" status in Trieste, Italy for two years. Her first job was at Walken's Bakery in Astoria, working alongside the bakers' son, who grew up to become the award-winning actor, Christopher Walken. She opened her first restaurant in Queens, NY when she was only 24 years old. Today Ms. Bastianich is a cookbook author, television host, and renowned chef and restaurateur. Bastianich is the chef/owner of four acclaimed New York restaurants—Felidia, Becco, Esca and Del Posto, as well as Lidia’s in Pittsburgh and Kansas City. She is also founder and president of Tavola Productions, an entertainment company that produces broadcast productions including Lidia’s Italy. For more information about Bastianich visit: www.lidiasitaly.com

About Bpeace
The Business Council for Peace (www.bpeace.org) is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization, based in New York City with offices in Kabul, Afghanistan and Kigali, Rwanda. Established in 2002, Bpeace is an international network of business professionals who volunteer to help women in conflict and post-conflict countries build sustainable businesses to provide for their families and strengthen their abilities to foster peace. Bpeace has the support of the U.S. Department of State. The Afghan and Rwandan female entrepreneurs in its program employ nearly 1,800 people who support more than 12,000 family members.

You may have noticed little icons at the bottom of the pages with a little American and Russian flags. I've been experimenting with language support for FoodCandy. Click on the Russian flag to set the website to Russian, it really works :)

I have only translated the main menu and Me Me.

If someone has any interest for other languages and wants to help with the translation, let me know.

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Looks fun. Click here if it doesn't work.

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mishamishka

Former Chickpea just got their Kosher license, imagine getting the liquor license of sorts, it's a big deal. The restaurant needs a new name and they are offering 3K$ for the winner!

http://www.name-our-glatt-kosher.com/

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Play with your food!

mishamishka

I'm going to be in Toronto on March 27th for a day with two coworkers. If there's one place to eat, what should it be?

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This photo is a little ridiculous :) He's not that tall! Video here.

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Hello,

I'm looking for the above food art to photograph for a project i'm working on. If you or someone you know has any of the above (or knows where it is,) please contact me! I can't offer any compensation, but fame and notoriety are sure to come with your good deed. And maybe we can get a bite to eat together! Fun!

Melissa

melissa
missysues@gmail.com

646.961.3987

It has been a while since we've spoken. The last new feature I talked about was friends activity. There has been a bunch of improvements since.

You can change the order of pictures everywhere where there're pictures (profile, events, places, etc.).

If you navigate to Suggest a New Place from an existing place the location is preserved. Thus it's easier to add more than one place.

Friends activity is grouped together for multiple posts on the same blogs.

There's auto-complete for all locations. So when you start typing in a New York neighborhood you'll see options based on what you typed.

If you try to navigate away from an unsaved post, you'll get a warning and an opportunity to cancel. Blog and discussion posts can stick (pin) on top. You can move posts between discussions and blogs in any direction. You can promote posts from under threads.

You can enable/disable comments on blogs.

Lots of improvements on groups. You can add/create multiple discussions and blogs to groups. Featured groups appear on the front page.

Old messages are automatically deleted in your personal Sent and Trash folders.

We now tell you when an e-mail bounces. So if your e-mail confirmation message or invitation didn't reach destination, we'll note it on the appropriate page.

The mobile website (http://mobile.foodcandy.com) now allows you to log-in and post discussion posts, comments, etc. The site works for a bunch of devices I tried it on, so bookmark it on your smartphone or blackberry. 

Simplified mobile search, just search for what you want in a single click.

If you navigate to the regular website with a phone or PDA you'll get a switch to mobile button on top of those pages that are mobile-enabled.

Navigation of the mobile website has been improved with easy "back" buttons everywhere.

If you are a techie and care, the software that runs under FoodCandy is called SnCore and it's now available free for non-commerical use!

As usual, if you want something, just say so :)

cheers
-dB.

PS: we've been having some technical issues lately where the site would be snow or unavailable on periods of time, they should all be resolved now, apologies

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What butter and whiskey will not cure there is no cure for.
--Irish proverb

Thanks to everyone who came! These are the business card photos. Fun.

http://www.foodcandy.com/AccountEventPictureView.aspx ...

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Heather

101 Easy Peasy Cookie Recipes
"Add this cookbook to your collection." - About.com Guide to Desserts / Baking

Hey everyone, I am a college student in the middle of Downtown San Francisco and I was wondering if there was anyone out there who knows any good places to have lunch for under $10 a day.  $10 is my budget, but I refuse to use it on Jack in the Crack or McD's.  I may be broke, but I shouldn't subject my tongue to filth.  I only work from 10 to 15 hours a week, so I don't make that much.  =(  My foodie-side is CRYING.

Please, please, please lemme know!
Jo

"My last name may be Boston, but I'm a Bay girl at heart."

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Play with your food!

My friend Alla told me how easy it was to make meatballs and I resisted.  Not only because meatballs sound fattening and heavy but something seemingly impossible to make because meatballs seem grounded (no pun intended) to history.  I always thought only Italian grandmas could make the perfect meatball but I have to say, I proved myself wrong.

It started with walking over to the meat market and getting a pound each of ground beef and ground turkey.  I can't promise that this meat was all antibiotic and hormone free, or that it was even slaughtered humanely.  I ask these questions and the guy behind the counter just stares at you like you've vomited all over the counter.

I got home and whipped out some Sazon (a great weapon in cooking something full of flavor) and chopped onion and threw that all together in a bowl with a little Seltzer water, salt, pepper, and ofcourse worcestshire sauce.  In a big pot I dumped a jar of spaghetti sauce and set the pot to simmer.  Now you may want to show off and make your own sauce, but I say why suffer?  Just take it easy and enjoy the meatball making process.

I shaped my  meat mixture (and I did the beef and turkey separately) and tossed it into the sauce.  After about 20 minutes or so I added a quarter bottle of white wine to the sauce and let it all simmer some more.  I think the simmering went on for about 45 minutes total.

When you're ready to eat, get a nice bowl (like I did in my meatball photos) and sprinkle some cheese on top.  If you want to be really fancy add some parsley sprigs and you're all set.

Eat and enjoy!

mishamishka

I just published the interview with Chef DonClark, which reminds me that, just like Hilary Clinton, I love Mexican food.

Pick one Latin food place you love and tell me about it!

I pick Clinton on Clinton & Houson. I think it's Dominican.

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whats up Foodcandy?

I think its time we organize and have a little social gathering and meet eachother face to face again!

It's 2008, time to make new friends with like interests.  let's go crazy foodies!

So, how about February 7th?  It's a thursday night.  we can do a post work thing.  If anyone has any amazing suggestions I'm down, otherwise I'm thinking we can coordinate with a venue and if each person pays like 40 bucks or so we can do an open bar for a few hours with snacks.  Would people be down with that or would you prefer a pay as you go thing, with food being optional?

mishamishka

I am at Casa Cupcake on 40th & 9th every other day, but I need to find a new place around 37th & 6th. What's your favorite coffee shop in New York?

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