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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 [...]

NY Apartments Get Food Delivered–by Fresh Direct Vending Machines

Want Fresh Direct in your building?  I mean REALLY in your building? As in a vending machine with dinner to go?
Brick Underground reports that Fresh Direct will place a vending machine stocked with heat-and-serve meals in your New York co-op or condo building. Right now, the company has launched a pilot program to test the [...]

Daniel Boulud Pins Hopes on American Showing in Bocuse d’Or Cooking Competition

It’s “the hardest cooking competition in the world, ” said Gavin Kaysen, who placed sixth as the US contender in the 2007 Bocuse d’Or cooking competition that’s been dubbed the Culinary Olympics.
Twelve US teams, each composed of a chef and an assistant, were announced at a press conference at Restaurant Daniel in New York on [...]

Where to Buy Potato Latkes for Hanukkah on the Upper West Side

When it comes to purchasing already-prepared Hanukkah latkes–those irresistible potato pancakes that are to Hanukkah as fruit cake is to Christmas–the Upper West Side abounds with dining-in or take-out options.
“We do a beautiful job on latkes,” remarked Nick the cook at Barney Greengrass, the iconic dairy restaurant on Amsterdam Avenue on New York’s Upper West [...]

Fall Food Events in New York: Chow Down Around the City

Autumn is food fest time and this October and November, the city is brimming with places to watch celebrity chefs do demos while you munch on their fare. There’s a chocolate festival, along with wine, and butchering events. Recently shuttered Gourmet Magazine’s Gourmet Institute is Oct. 23-25. Will it resemble a food fest…or a wake?

Here’s [...]