Love was in the air indeed at South Street Seaport last night as vendors from Hoboken and neighborhood environs converged to celebrate the launch of Edible Manhattan, the latest of the acclaimed Edible Publications, which celebrates all things local and delicious.
From homemade donuts with glazes from seasonal fresh fruit (apricots and strawberries to name a few), to gourmet chocolate, Sicilian-style street pizza, Oysters and Manhattans (the cocktail), Long Island-borne pears and Hoboken mozzarella that has inspired Yo La Tengo, needless to say there were a dizzying amount of offerings from “The Island”.
Lines began sometime around 6 as eager eaters lined for samples of meticulously roasted pork with horseradish cream sauce and cheese sticks from Murray’s, and later, to finish up with lavendar and ginger artisanal-flavored ice creams.
As a Brooklynite, my own borough’s sustainable and foodie renaissance has left me (I’m ashamed to admit) a teeny bit jaded, and I couldn’t help but feel it as I approached the market — I figured this whole time that we were one step ahead of our neighbors to the west since Edible Brooklyn was launched in the Spring of 2006 and have been a culinary and sustainable food tour de force ever since. But a whirl around the venue softened my indifference, and a gander at the mag left me even more impressed.
Who knew that there is a bookstore in the Upper East Side devoted to cookbooks alone (over 1K titles in French and 2-3K out-of-prints in the basement)? That somewhere in Gramercy wasabi is served grated on sharkskin as opposed to copper so that more surface is exposed to oxygen, hence a more powerful flavor? That Isaac Mizrahi started cooking because he loved the word sauté?
One of the reasons I moved to New York was because I knew I would never get bored, that it is impossible to learn and take in everything this city has to teach you and that it is truly yours for the taking.
Congratulations, Manhattanites. Dig in.
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