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Wedding Foods at Astor Center March 11 Featuring Momofuko, Landmarc, Other Purveyors

Eat, drink, get married. Wedding bells are ringing at the Astor Center March 11 which is displaying festive wedding-friendly foods from the likes of Momofuku Milk Bar, Ronni-Sue’s Chocolates and The Cleaver Company.
Could one of these purveyors be your dream wedding caterer?
Tastings of food and champagne will be offered.
One couple will win a hands-on cooking [...]

Upper East Side: The Great Migration & Southern Cooking in New York City

Here’s an event for fried chicken fanatics. With all the buzz about this southern culinary classic, this event reviewing the impact of the southern Great Migration on New York cooking fits right in with the times. It’s co-sponsored by the Museum of the City of New York and the Southern Foodways Alliance. Here are [...]

All About Cheddar Cheese at Jimmy’s No. 43 Feb. 3

Some people travel the globe in search of love.  Others search for adventure.  But Diana Pittet looked far and wide for cheddar cheese. 
Eat, Pray, Love for cheese lovers?
Find out why Pittet embarked on a 10-month global search for the rich, savory cheddar–and what she learned along the way at this Feb. 3 event at [...]

Upper West Side: Bruni, Foer Face Off on Vegetarianism at the JCC

By Miriam Gottfried
Is it OK to eat factory-farmed meat? Is vegetarianism the only ethical food choice? At the Manhattan JCC Monday night, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer and former New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni debated these food ethics questions—while struggling to identify a middle ground between their two opposing viewpoints.
The two men, both of [...]

A Holiday Dinner at Bar Boulud

Update: This event has been canceled.
Do you have $250 to splurge on a holiday dinner at Bar Boulud?  If so, a Lyonnaise feast Dec. 5 will feature specialties from the region, created by Chef Daniel Boloud.  Here are the details:
What: A Lyonnaise Feast Holiday Dinner. Dine on the cuisine of Lyon—arguably the capital of French [...]