As the years pass, we confront the acceleration of time. Weeks become moments and months fly by as the seasons blur and pass far too quickly. We p...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Friday: 6:30 AM finds me with Dean in the car for a visit to Katchkie Farm to meet with Farmer Bob and spend some time in the snow-covered fields. A...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Sunday, day of rest; or day of food adventures? Off o to the markets, extensively defined in Wikipedia: "It is an arrangement that allows buyers and ...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
The journey to this table, beautifully set in an East Village apartment, was on the surface, a typical gathering of New Yorkers passionate about food,...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
The Jewish Holidays have ended, but not without being repeatedly asked - where do you attend services (or...where do you pray)? I go to the 'Green Sy...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Portland has a marvelous farmers market -- and thankfully, I was not able to shop and schlep. I ate what I could and photographed the rest. The farmers were passionate and creative. The produce was picture perfect, the atmosphere, small town-like and energetic.
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
It has been a wonderful time to celebrate the season of local agriculture. Thursday evening was the fruition of a dream to host an urban Farm to Tabl...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Bob, if you go to the greenhouse tomorrow morning, and notice fewer tomatoes, know that it was I who was the tomato thief. I have never met a Katchkie Farm tomato I did not love.
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
A brilliant Saturday and the call to visit Katchkie Farm was irresistible; I invited my friend, Nazli, to come along. We sailed up the Taconic lost i...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Making the headlines yesterday were the season opener for the New Amsterdam Market (NAM; the market we need and deserve) and the annual summer Fancy F...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Joan Dye Gussow - the matriarch of the modern-day food movement; the educator and activist who transformed the discussion about nutrition and health f...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Eating and cooking - we all know the joy and benefits of these activities. They are not only productive in that a goal is achieved (a meal is prepare...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Summer arrived this week from a food perspective. We had 3 consecutive evenings of outdoor galas and the weekend featured sumptuous nibbling in the f...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Wednesday, it was 90 degrees, or so said the car's external thermometer, as I made my way up the Taconic, almost racing to get to Katchkie Farm. It h...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Oh, to be a woman in white, in a sea of white; one of a thousand, though it is never my style to follow a crowd or be in a crowd, except today. How ...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
My first major grilling season event as a vegetarian has passed. Though my vegetarianism has not reached the 1-year mark yet, this weekend marks a sig...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Four years ago we set out on a mission to establish a new farm, an extension of the Great Performances family. The farm would supply us with food and...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Weeks ago, Great Performances said yes to Stephen Grimaldi, Executive Director of the Yorkville Common Pantry. Yes - to being the honoree for the York...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
A watershed event for the local food shed -- the second annual NYC Food and Climate Summit -- was convened on Saturday.
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
From the moment I was expected to contemplate a Yom Kippur fast as a teenager, I became ravenous. I clearly remember the object of my uncontrollable hunger -- Smokey the Bear cookies.
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Heirloom tomatoes, ratatouille and butternut squash soup for Rosh Hashannah: The holiday brings home quiet moments in our lives that are otherwise jammed with obligations and fast meals.
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
What made the strongest impression on me was how the children embraced the breadth of the fields. The chance to run across meadows -- more space than they'd ever seen in their lives -- -- was very precious.
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
It has been a dream to host a formal dinner on our farm. It was an idea discussed long ago which finally came to fruition.
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
I am astonished that in the course of 48 hours I can experience such a diverse range of food experiences that are all a part of my reality where we (my co-workers and co-dreamers) can weave a scene where we connect growers and growing to local eaters.
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
Now more than ever, we need to grasp the wonderful events that happen in the course of a week or a day and recognize them as great moments.
Liz Neumark | Posted 10.08.2011