The following essay was written for the New Amsterdam Market blog, in preparation for New Amsterdam Market’s upcoming Winter Night Banquet. The multi-course dinner will be the first in a series of events that will inform and benefit the development of the New Amsterdam Market School of Regional Cookery, envisioned as a place where all New Yorkers [...]
Posts Tagged ‘history’
The Menu Meeting
Posted in Winter 2010, tagged collaboration, history, markets on March 6, 2010 |
Listening, Learning
Posted in Fall 09, tagged health care, history, policy on December 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In last week’s New Yorker, an article entitled Testing, Testing, written by Atul Gawande, details the author’s optimistic perspective on the Senate’s new health care bill. Gawande highlights and applauds the bill’s inclusion of pilot programs reminiscent of those responsible for transforming American agriculture in the early 20th century. “While we crave sweeping transformation,” he [...]
Columella: On Agriculture
Posted in Brooklyn, Spring 09, Colloquium, tagged history on March 1, 2009 |
This is one in a series of short essays related to Annie’s colloquium, Brooklyn Brews and Oyster Pie: Visions for a Local Food System in the New York Region. An explanation of the “colloquium,” as well as a link to download Annie’s colloquium topic (the rationale), can be found under Gallatin Colloquium, in the Research [...]
The Georgics
Posted in Brooklyn, Spring 09, Colloquium, tagged bees, history on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is the first in a series of short essays related to Annie’s colloquium, Brooklyn Brews and Oyster Pie: Visions for a Local Food System in the New York Region. An explanation of the “colloquium,” as well as a link to download Annie’s colloquium topic (the rationale), can be found under Gallatin Colloquium, in the [...]
Queens County Farm Museum: Michael
Posted in New Amsterdam, Summer 08, tagged history, land use, the future!, urban agriculture on August 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This post is one of a series of essays written for the New Amsterdam Market. Each essay stems from a conversation between the author and a vendor who participated in the New Amsterdam Market of June 29th. The essays seek to address each vendor’s (food-related) enterprise, to highlight the reality behind their commitment to sustainability, and to convey the [...]
Diner / Marlow & Sons: Caroline
Posted in New Amsterdam, Summer 08, tagged collaboration, history, markets on July 23, 2008 |
This post is the first in a series of essays written for the New Amsterdam Market. Each essay stems from a conversation between the author and a vendor who participated in the New Amsterdam Market of June 29th. The essays seek to address each vendor’s (food-related) enterprise, to highlight the reality behind their commitment to [...]
New Amsterdam Market: Courting New York
Posted in New Amsterdam, Summer 08, tagged history, markets, the future! on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The season has changed, and the Seaport story has progressed. Last December, as the cheese-grilling minion of the Saxelby table, I became one with the New Amsterdam Market. My unsuspecting frozen fingers flew round the knives and boards and cheese and pickles with a contagious rhythm, a pulse of energy I’d caught from the stands, [...]
New Amsterdam Market Returns to the Seaport!
Posted in New Amsterdam, Summer 08, tagged history, markets, the future! on June 26, 2008 |
The ongoing effort to establish a public, indoor, year-round market in Manhattan is alive and well, and this Sunday will gather a merry medley of regional food producers, purveyors, distributors, and supporters. Butchers and cheesemongers, bakers and foragers, chefs and farmers, picklers and ice cream makers will come together to celebrate the abundance of our region, the bounty [...]
A Marketable Pulse
Posted in New Amsterdam, Summer 08, tagged history, markets, the future! on June 6, 2008 |
After only two of my five recent months in Berkeley, I had come to notice and enjoy the youthful history of the place, a past of energy and resistance that confronted me at every corner. As I wrote in February, the history of Berkeley seemed to factor into every event I attended, every classroom I [...]
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