photo: Mimi Giboin
I’ll admit to feeling a quick flutter of excitement when friends suggest eating together and the expectation is that I chose the “perfect” spot.
I rapidly flip through my mental rolodex, wondering if they want the meal to comfort them or blow them away with offbeat creations? Do they want a hip, cacophonous environment or a conversation friendly dining room?
When I ask these questions, I often get the hand-wave and hopeful “YOU chose”. Continue reading
I’m still abuzz from all of the new experiences I had last weekend at the Hazon Food Conference.
Over the course of four jampacked days, I met passionate, articulate and inspiring food, social and environmental activists, Rabbis, educators and students, chefs and home cooks, gardeners, farmers and food producers, writers and filmmakers. Continue reading
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Margie Treisman.
Chef Robert Ubaldo’s small, rustic and cozy restaurant is already known for it’s delicious farm-to-table food. But it deserves special recognition as a haven for Kosher Keepers (who eat veg) and vegetarian foodies in Fairfield County.
Yes, Farmer’s Table, in New Canaan, CT, offers a full vegetarian menu at lunch and dinner. This alone merits a shout out.
What’s more, the choices are both plentiful and delicious. With vegetables sourced from Ubaldo’s own Pound Ridge garden or his brother’s upstate New York farm, John Boy, the vegetarian offerings are fresh, vibrant and bursting with flavor. On top of that, this chef bakes his own bread in house daily, as well as three homemade dessert offerings (but more on that later).