Edible Magazines Announce Eat Drink Local Restaurant Partners, Ingredients, Speakers and Sponsors

From Edible Manhattan: In celebration of harvest season, Edible Manhattan is joining forces with Edibles statewide and the Greenmarket geniuses at GrowNYC to present our second annual Eat Drink Local week, September 26 to October 6. (Yes, that "week" is 11 days long, so get your appetites ready.) Hundreds of participating chefs, farmers, brewers and vintners are pitching in to host farm feasts, wine tastings, even an afternoon "Edible Institute" at the New School and Sotheby's first-ever heirloom-vegetable auction. Find the whole lip-smacking locavore lineupincluding each day's official ingredient, from clams to ciderat ediblemanhattan.com. Here are some choice updates: 11 Ingredients. We crowd-sourced 11 ingredients of the day intended to celebrate awesome seasonal edibles and to create more demand city and statewide for the local product. They will be featured by partner restaurants and like-minded food citizens, and at the Festival of the 11 Ingredients, Monday October 4th at Chelsea Market. Here's what made the cut. Sunday: Clams Monday: Whole grains Tuesday: Brown ales & lagers Wednesday: Duck Thursday: Concord grapes Friday: Rosé & riesling Saturday: Cauliflower Sunday: Farm stand cocktails Monday: Squash Tuesday: Dairy Wednesday: Apple cider Restaurant partners. We are proud to announce our restaurant partners (who can be foundhere and below), and who will be serving Eat Drink Local prix fixes and featuring the 11 ingredients of the day. Last minute additions include Hearth and Terroir, as well as Tribeca Grill in Manhattan, and, in Brooklyn, long-standing must-trys Rose Water, Saul, and a di la, as well as borough newcomers like Benchmark, Lucas, Radish, Fort Defiance and Mile End. (Look for more details on restaurant offerings in coming weeks.) The Edible Institute at the New School. On September 27, farmers, chefs, food activists, and locavores will dissect the evolution of Gotham's food culture, during four panel discussions and a reception at the New School featuring the leaders of Gotham's small-scale, artisanal, and real food movement. Topics and speakers can be found here, and include Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver, writer-cook Cathy Erway (Not Eating Out in New York), Saveur editor Gabriella Gershenson, cheesemonger Lou DiPalo, FCI founder Dorothy Hamilton, New York Public Library menu archivist Rebecca Federman, D'Artagnan's Ariane Daguin, Queens County farmer Kennon Kay, Seriouseater Ed Levine and chef Colin Alevras. Learn more here, and reserve your seat by writing boxoffice@newschool.edu or calling 212.229.5488. Eat Drink Local Challenge. The merrymaking includes a competitive component: our first-ever Eat Drink Local Challenge. During the 11-day festivities, our staff has vowed to tackle 20 eat drink local experiences, from churning some local butter to picking sidewalk purslane to checking out a cookbook from your local library. We'll document our efforts on our Facebook page, and invite youmake that dare youto show us what you're up to. Whether you conquer a dozen of these do's or just one, tell us all about it at our end-of-week party, Monday October 4th at Chelsea Market (and a to-be-determined Brooklyn location). Bring evidence of your efforts, be that a picture of you at an upstate orchard, the limerick that trip inspired, or a pie you baked from the Braeburn booty. Edible editors will bestow prizes aplentymay the best eaters win! Sponsors of Eat Drink Local week 2010 include Edible magazines, GrowNYC, I LOVE NY, Sotheby's, New York Botanical Garden, the New York Wine and Grape Foundation, Empire Merchants, Bonterra Vineyards, Sterling Vineyards, Crop Organic Vodka and Farmer's Gin. Eat Drink Local runs statewide from September 26-October 6, 2010, with the collaboration of all Edible magazines in the Empire State-- including Edible Brooklyn, Edible Buffalo, Edible East End, Edible Hudson Valley, Edible Finger Lakes, Edible Manhattan and Edible Queens. In New York City, the week is co-produced with GrowNYC. The celebration involves partners from the entire food chain, including restaurants, wine shops and wineries, breweries and beer bars, farms and food artisans, and cultural institutions that celebrate food. Edible is featuring these businesses in Eat Drink Local profiles throughout the season, and you will find many of them at these Eat Drink Local events that we invite you to attend. (We'll be there too.) • September 23. An auction, cocktails and dinner celebrating heirloom vegetables at Sotheby's. • September 25. A Long Island wine auction and East End harvest celebration, at Wolffer Estate Vineyards in Sagaponack. • September 25-26. Fiesta de Flores y Comida, the celebration of Hispanic food and flowers at New York Botanical Garden. • September 27. The Edible Institute at the New School, a public discourse on urban food issues. • September 28. A Hungry Filmmakers screening. • October 2. Harvest Fest at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. • October 4. The Festival of the 11 Ingredients at Chelsea Market. • October 6. The annual, unforgettable fundraiser for the Greenmarkets, Taste of Greenmarket. And if you sign up for our enewsletter, follow us on Twitter or Like us on Facebook, you'll be the first to know about plans for the week as they unfold and of course any last-minute parties. Partner restaurants for Eat Drink Local week 2010 include: In Manhattan: 15 East Almond Aquavit Back Forty Blind Tiger Ale House Blue Hill/Blue Hill at Stone Barns bobo Braeburn Cabrito Cleaver Company Colicchio & Sons Cookshop Restaurant and Bar COUNTER Vegetable Bistro & Organic Bar Craft Craft Bar and Restaurant DB Bistro Moderne Dizzy Club Coca-Cola El Cafe Esca Five Points Gotham Bar & Grill Gramercy Tavern Great Performances Green Table Harrison Hearth Hetcho en Dumbo Henry's Hundred Acres Il Buco Inside Park at St. Bart Jimmy's No. 43 Katchkie Farm L'Ecole the Restaurant of the French Culinary Institute Mae Mae Cafe Market Table Mas (farmhouse) Momofuku Noodle Bar Nick & Toni's Cafe Northern Spy Food Co. Print Pure Food and Wine Red Cat Resto Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto Savoy Schiller's Sotheby's Terrace Cafe Telepan Terroir Tribeca Grill Txikito Tocqueville Restaurant Wallse Wavehill In Brooklyn: al di la Trattoria applewood BAMcafé Belleville Bistro Benchmark Restaurant Cariño Cheryl's Global Soul DuMont Restaurant The Farm on Adderley Five Leaves Fort Defiance General Greene Ici Lucas Fine Foods Mile End Palo Santo Pete's Downtown Radish Rose Water Rye Saul Stonehome Wine Bar Superfine Ted & Honey On the East End: Almond (East End) Bay Burger Beacon Restaurant Foody's Fresno Restaurant Love Lane Kitchen Luce & Hawkins Nick & Toni's Pierre's Scrimshaw The Little Kitchen The North Fork Table & Inn Town Line BBQ

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