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Great Hamburger Recipe: For July 4th Grilling or Any Time this Summer

A Great Hamburger Recipe by Chef Renee
Here’s a recipe for a hamburger that will wow your friends and family this July 4th and throughout the summer. Use grass fed beef for its deeper, richer flavor, but conventional beef works well too.
The secret? A disc of butter slid into the middle of the patty makes this [...]

Upper West Side: Unwined Wine Bar is Moving from Symphony Space Locale

Unwined, the Upper West Side wine bar tucked into Symphony Space at 95th and Broadway, is moving. The new location hasn’t been announced. E-mail me if you have info on the new locale.

Brooklyn: Free Cooking Lessons on Historic American Foods at Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum

Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in Brooklyn is offering four free cooking lessons on how to prepare historic American foods. So put on that hoop skirt and mosey on over to whip up some victuals that our forefathers and foremothers might have consumed.
What: FREE Fireside Feast. Join hearth cook and culinary historian Carolina Capehart for a night [...]

Best Potato Chips in NY Area? Try Chips at Southold’s Piping Plover on the North Fork

Potato chips fall into two categories: natural, hand-cut varieties like those offered up at the Piping Plover in Southold on the North Fork of Long Island, or too-salty chips with a taste and texture like cardboard.
At Piping Plover, they make their own potato chips from hand-sliced potatoes. Owner Ken Myers says the dark russet [...]

Recipe for Father’s Day: Smoky Gazpacho Mario with Spicy Slim Jim Stirrer

How about a gazpacho recipe for Father’s Day from Chef Renee that’s he-man enough to please Dad and that’s also sure to win over the rest of the family?
Smoky Gazpacho Mario with Spicy Slim Jim Stirrer
Serves 4
The night before: fill one ice cube tray with tomato juice, and freeze overnight. Use the rest of the [...]

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Great Hamburger Recipe: For July 4th Grilling or Any Time this Summer

Upper West Side: Unwined Wine Bar is Moving from Symphony Space Locale

Brooklyn: Free Cooking Lessons on Historic American Foods at Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum

Best Potato Chips in NY Area? Try Chips at Southold’s Piping Plover on the North Fork

Recipe for Father’s Day: Smoky Gazpacho Mario with Spicy Slim Jim Stirrer

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