Posts Written OnSeptember 03, 2008

Visitors to the North Fork wine trail probably won’t recognize the name Bridge Vineyards. They don’t have a tasting room and their wines aren’t widely available on Long Island. A couple are available at The Tasting Room, but it looks like this particular wine isn’t. Owners Greg Sandor and Paul Wegimont are doing something a little different with the wines they make from their North Fork vineyard. Instead of trying to figure out how to pull people out to the North Fork from the five boroughs, they are taking the wines west. Into Brooklyn to be more specific, with Bridge…

Eileen over at Cellarette wrote a post earlier today titled "Why so little attention?" about the Long Island wine industry that is worth a read. In the post, she discusses the New York Times, Howard Goldberg (who ‘covers’ the LI region) and the fact that his once-weekly column "Long Island Vines" has gone from weekly to every-other-week. She also mentions that local winemakers allegedly aren’t as apt to send him samples recently. She asks a great question with this post, but it’s not just the Times. None of the papers in the New York metro area cover the local wine…

Many of us in the blogosphere are familiar with (and even write for) the various Edible Communities publications across the country. I contribute to Edible East End on occasion and have done some writing for Edible Brooklyn in the past as well. Now Manhattan, perhaps the best food city in the world, has it’s own edible magazine: Edible Manhattan. From Madison Avenue food jingles that play across the country to the ecology of rooftop honey, from LaGuardia’s love of hot dogs to the bodegas up and down Broadway, Edible Manhattan will peel back the curtain on all that’s devoured, delivered…