Food
Thanksgiving is coming and my memories of Thanksgivings past are as vivid as yesterday. My family cooked together, and we ate and gave thanks together as a family for our many blessings. It’s the one time of year when I throw caution to the win and fix my late Mother and late Grandmother’s best recipes [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Food’
November 22, 2009
Dining with Miss Lil: Feast as we Give Thanks
October 24, 2009
Dining With Miss Lil: Soup’s On
Food
Fall is here, and our menu choices should be changing to reflect what is in peak in October. Fruits peaking now are apples, coconuts, cranberries and pears. Broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, and cauliflower are low carb vegetables in season this month. Why not try this vegetarian recipe for Butternut Squash & Apple soup to help [...]
October 15, 2009
Sugar Hill Beer Launches Harlem’s Very First “Beer Dinner” at Spoonbread
HARLEM, NY (Tuesday, October 13, 2009) Celeste Beatty of Harlem Brewing Company, brewers of Sugar Hill Beer along with Harlem World Magazine will launch Sugar Hill Cooks, a Harlem food series, at Miss Maude’s Spoonbread. The event will take place at 547 Lenox Avenue on Tuesday, October 27 from 6 to 9pm. Beginning in October [...]
October 15, 2009
Sugar Hill Beer and Harlem World: Taste the Music!
For Tickets go to: http://hwmsugarhillbeer09.eventbrite.com
September 4, 2009
Muddy Waters Cafe in Harlem
Event
From Harlem Bespoke
After a couple of false starts, the anticipated Muddy Waters Cafe (on ACP/7th Avenue and 129th) seems to have a more precise opening date which happens to be this month. We walked by yesterday and the store still had the brown paper up on the windows but this time had a small sign [...]
September 2, 2009
Dining With Ms. Lil: Back to Health
Food
September is back to school time. You should be very concerned about our pre-school kids to college students’ eating and exercise habits, just as much as they should be concerned about the same for the adults in their lives.
Two thirds of Americans are overweight. A May 2007 report released by the NYC Department of Health [...]
September 1, 2009
Exploring East Harlem, Bite by Bite
Food
From Black Cotton
If you’re a large, intrepid, and insatiably hungry group in sensible shoes, big o wants to show you around East Harlem.
He suggests you start with a pie at Patsy’s, the 76-year-old coal-oven pizza destination on First Avenue.
For added ballast—Patsy’s crust is uncommonly thin—zig a couple of long blocks west on 116th Street to [...]
August 4, 2009
BCA 6th Annual Global Food and Wine Experience
Food
Over 50 chefs and wine merchants will create a platform for more than 75 culinary students to be mentored at New York City restaurants for the ultimate culinary experience. The event titled “Diversity in Food and Wine” is scheduled to take place on Wednesday September 16th from 7 PM-10:30 PM at Tavern on the green [...]
July 31, 2009
Sylvia’s Annual Community Free Breakfast
Friday, July 31st, 5:00 AM until 10:00 AM
Please come out and support and enjoy the atmosphere.
For more info please contact:
Tren’ness Woods-Black, Director of Marketing/ Special Events, Sylvia’s Restaurant, the Queen of Soulfood™
328 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY 10027, 212-996-0660 ext. 11 O., 212-427-6389 F., www.sylviasrestaurant.com
July 20, 2009
Dining With Miss Lil: Tis The Season
Food
By Lil Nickelson
Chef Cary Neff, a former Executive Chef at Miraval Resort Spa in Scottsdale, AR wrote a book titled “Conscious Cuisine” which recommends that we our menu should change as the seasons did do.
Chef Neff also states that we plan our meals backwards; we center our meals on the meat as our main ingredient, [...]
June 9, 2009
Dining With Miss Lil: Breaking The Fast
Food
By Lil Nickelson
Breakfast is the most important meal of your day, yet most Americans don’t eat breakfast at home; we just don’t make the time. Breakfast, helps you break your fast after sleeping five to eight hours each night. If you skip breakfast, you are certainly going to need to eat something before lunchtime. How [...]
June 6, 2009
Marcus Samuelsson: An Ethiopian, From Sweden In Harlem
The Universal Peace of Food
By Tseday Alehegn
It’s a slightly drizzly evening in Manhattan and I’m walking with a loping gait to Aquavit restaurant, anxious that I am tardy, simultaneously juggling my umbrella, checking whether I brought my voice recorder, notes, interview questions and pen.
May 16, 2009
Harlem Wants Civil Eats, Now!
Food
Every Monday brings another gloomy, doomy dispatch from the pessimistic prince of Sunday punditry, Paul Krugman. The Nobel-prize-winning Princeton economics professor and New York Times columnist is on the record–and the front of last week’s Newsweek–expressing deep skepticism about the bank bailout and keeping grown-ups across America awake at night with a frightening fable, The [...]
May 16, 2009
A Taste Of Seafood In Harlem
Food
Famous Harlem spot flounders, swims across the street
Fried fish has long been a big deal in Harlem. As African-Americans from Georgia and the Carolinas migrated northward to New York in the first half of the 20th century, they brought their love of catfish with them. But finding no precise equivalent in the area’s waterways, they [...]
April 5, 2009
Dining With Miss Lil: Family First
Food
By Lil Nickelson
Cooking great meals and sharing fine dining experiences are an integral part of my family’s traditions and practices. They sparked my passion for cooking and fine dining, and led me to begin writing this column for Harlem World.
March 10, 2009
Mac & Cheese, Easy Comfort Food
Food
Heather Johnston, food and wine blogger who has developed recipes for magazines such as Essence and Saveur (now she’s cooking with HW)…
… in this video she demonstrates how to make an easy and delicious comfort food Macaroni and Cheese with true Harlem flavor.
So Goodtv.com
.
March 7, 2009
Harlem 1, The Knicks 0
Food
From Gothamst.com by John Del Signore in Food on March 6, 2009 1:19 PM
At Harlem eatery Ottomanelli Brothers, customers are encouraged to enter the “Hulk Steak Burger Challenge”: A diner who consumes the 24-ounce steak burger (three “normal” hamburgers stacked with cheese and bread on a bun topped with fried onions), plus [...]
February 20, 2009
BCA Black Tie Gala 2009
Food
BCA Continues Celebrating Diversity at 16th Annual Cultural Awareness Salute at Black Tie Gala hosted in NYC
TV-Fox 5 Ines Rosales will be Mistress of Ceremonies introducing some of most influential professionals, restaurant owners, students and educators at the BCA 16th Annual Cultural Awareness Salute being held Saturday March 14th 2009 from [...]
February 9, 2009
Redding Opens New Digs In Harlem
Food
Feed family of four for under $25
Stopped going out to eat because you can’t afford it? Fear not, ladies and gentleman — celebrity chef Carl Redding is here with your “Recession Rescue Menu.” You’re going to love this.
On Sunday, the restaurateur opened Doc’s Restaurant, which features southern favorites and health-conscious dishes. But here’s the sweet [...]
January 31, 2009
No Amy Ruth’s Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklynites may be disappointed to hear that Amy Ruth’s, the popular Harlem eatery known for its fried chicken and comfort dishes, will not be opening its second location on Fulton Street after all.
In October, 2007, Crain’s reported that Amy Ruth’s owners had signed a lease for the space formerly occupied by Gage & Tollner [...]
January 24, 2009
Food And Hunger With Heather
Food
Heather Johnston, food and wine blogger, from SoGood.TV reports on her attendance at the Action Center conference about world hunger.
Food Fight: Cleaning Up the Mess
December 21, 2008
Harlem’s New Atomic Wings Opens
Adam Lippin, the founder of Atomic Wings, today announced that the popular franchise’s first Harlem location is officially open for business. The newest addition to the Atomic Wings family of eateries promises to bring to Harlem the celebrated combination of atmosphere, flavor, and service that has been keeping NYC foodies satisfied for years.
Considered by most critics to be the best wing [...]
November 14, 2008
Taxman Spares Harlem Eatery
A restaurant serving workers in Harlem’s landmark Adam Clayton Powell state office building will stay open after a last-minute reprieve from the taxman.
November 12, 2008
Harlem Restaurant Best Soul Food
As the city’s culinary scene in New York expands, so does the number of bookstore shelves holding the city’s dining guidebooks. The newest of such books is Where the Locals Eat: New York, which is just hitting stores this week.
The book takes an editorial approach rather than the customer-review tack used by the city’s most [...]
October 30, 2008
The New Talay Gets a Grilling
If anyone in the restaurant industry deserves a break, it’s King Phojanakong, owner and chef of Kuma Inn in the lower east side. I don’t know if it’s the Filipino-Thai upbringing that keeps him humble but I’m sure he’s worked hard enough to keep Kuma Inn as unpretentious as possible. I believe that it’s his [...]
October 29, 2008
Harlem’s MoBay Files Chapter 11
Harlem restaurant MoBay Uptown plans to go ahead with an election-night party, even though owner Sheron Barnes filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week.
For weeks, Harlem restaurant MoBay Uptown has been planning an all-night watch party for the elections on Nov. 4th, and it’s already lined up music, signature Obamatinis and free appetizers for everyone [...]
October 11, 2008
Bill Wants To Change Food In Harlem
Former President Bill Clinton’s foundation has announced plans to strengthen restaurants in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood.
The program is a collaboration among the William J. Clinton Foundation, New York University’s business school and Booz & Co., a management consulting firm.
The eight-month program will help Harlem restaurant owners improve their products and services.
Clinton says successful restaurants will create [...]
RSS - Posts
Get a Harlem Details photograph from Danny Tisdale's architectural detail of Harlem's passing history. This image above was taken from the Big Apple Club sign shot on 135th Street and Adam Clayton Powell in 2007 (where 's a Popeye's is located today). 2000 to present!
