While many of us will no doubt go directly into a culinary winter doldrums starting this weekend, we were pleasantly surprised to see this update from the folks at Greensgrow Farms in Port Fishington, who are ripping into the post-holiday season just fine, thank you: “We’ve got gorgeous NJ beets in red and gold, plus [...]
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Food Porn: Metropolitan Bakery Would Like To Remind You That Their Granola Is The Only Granola Worth Eating Ever
Aired January 6th, 2012 on Breakfast, Food Porn, Locavore, Props Is Due and video.0 CommentsMetropolitan Bakery Granola from Metropolitan Bakery on Vimeo. As the sweet, dulcet jazz tones of the above video play out, let us have a moment of honesty: 99.999999999% of all granola produced in the world, ever, tastes like packing peanuts. But just as most granola should not be considered “food,” Metropolitan Bakery’s Granola should not [...]
Will 2012 Be The Year Of Andrew Little’s “New PA Dutch” Cuisine?
Aired January 3rd, 2012 on Celebrity Chefs, In The Burbs and Locavore.2 CommentsWatch the butter throne. It’s probably literally the worst day of the year to tell you about this — as one bite of this stuff could pretty much wreck every new year’s resolution diet plan you may have had — but look on the bright side: After all of that PSU unpleasantness, Heartland PA could [...]
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Grid Magazine Launches Local Food Guide With Event At Reading Terminal Today
Aired May 16th, 2011 on Events and Locavore.0 CommentsGrid Magazine, a local publication working “Towards a Sustainable Philadelphia” is launching their June Food Issue this evening with a party at Reading Terminal Market. The event starts at 5:30PM and continues on until 7:30PM with locally produced foods, Flying Fish Brewing Company tapping a keg of their Farmhouse Summer Ale, and Rolling Barrel laying [...]
Save The Date: June 9th Is The Special Beer Week Edition Of Night Market
Aired May 9th, 2011 on Events and Locavore.0 CommentsThe next installment in the The Food Trust‘s wildly popular Night Market series has been announced: On Thursday, June 9, from 6 – 10 p.m. at 39th and Market Streets, every Phoodie you know will gather near The Blockley for a special Beer Week edition of the NM. You may want to get in line [...]
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Ochs Bolts Reading Terminal For Manayunk
Aired May 9th, 2011 on Closings, Locavore and Openings.1 CommentHarry Ochs Prime Meats, a merchant at Reading Terminal Market for 105 years, left the Market on May 2nd. According to the Philadelphia Business Journal, relations with the managers of Reading Terminal Market had become strained. (Shades of the Rick’s Steaks kerfuffle here?) Nick Ochs, third-generation owner of Harry Ochs Prime Meats, told the Journal, [...]
Locavore, the most popular local food phone app, has now teamed up with Local Dirt, and on Earth Day, April 22, they’re launching the new “Where to Buy” ability, declared as the “Holy Grail” of future features by Lifehacker in 2009. Locavore is available on Android as of this week, and it is Free on [...]
In 20 Minutes, Soil Kitchen Opens! Bring A Bag Of Dirt, Get Some Free Soup, And Meet Mayor Nutter!
Aired April 1st, 2011 on Locavore.0 CommentsJoin Mayor Michael Nutter and the artist group Futurefarmers to celebrate the opening of Soil Kitchen. It is the first temporary public art project to be commissioned by the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy. So, What’s The Deal Exactly?: “Soil Kitchen is a temporary, windmill-powered architectural intervention and multi-use [...]
Prix Fixe: “Local Seafood” Tasting Menu At Matyson
Aired March 28th, 2011 on Locavore, Prix Fixe and Seafood.0 CommentsEvery now and then we remember how blessed we are to be living between two rivers. We’re not exactly sure about how we feel about eating fish from them, but perhaps Matyson can make us change our minds. Today until Thursday the 31st, they’re hosting a “Local Seafood” Tasting menu which includes: Cape May Salts [...]
Marathon To Launch Marathon Farm At 27th & Master
Aired February 28th, 2011 on Farming and Locavore.1 CommentView Larger Map Definitely file this one under Really Great And Very Cool News: The folks behind the Marathon group of local restaurants will launch Marathon Farm, a 15,750 square foot urban farm, on Monday, March 21 at 1 p.m. with a press conference led by Mayor Michael Nutter. The Farm will serve a host [...]
