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| Farmers Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell. Photo: Michael Hnatov. |
One evening last winter we sat down to dinner in a little pied-a-terre on the Upper East Side of Manhattan: Beef roast braised with rosemary and onions; pureed celery root and parsnips; crackling-fresh sautéed green beans. For dessert it was goat milk cheesecake with elderberry coulis. We washed the whole thing down with bottles of hard apple cider.
Had we ordered in -- stereotypical Manhattanites -- from the overpriced local gourmet grocery? Nope. Everything we consumed we had raised, herded, grown, plucked, cultivated, canned and cooked all by ourselves.
Could any other of the millions of inhabitants of New York City make that same claim that night? How about anyone else in the United States? OK, probably a couple, but for us, this was a meal just about 40 years in the making.
A photo of the farm and the rest of the introduction, after the jump.
I love the Everyday Food magazine (a Martha
Stewart Living publication) for its easy recipe ideas. I represent busy parents who still want to cook healthful, tasty
meals here on Slashfood, and I am always open to fast, easy cooking ideas.
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