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LOCAL BITES
Demo with Bissonnette
Boston’s Jamie Bissonnette of Toro and Coppa Enoteca will be giving a cooking demonstration at Trident Booksellers and Café tonight, 7 p.m. Chef Bissonnette won Food and Wine’s 2011 People’s Best New Chef Award. He was also featured in the new cookbook Primal Cuts: Cooking with America’s Best Butchers. The demonstration is free, but Primal Cuts will be available for sale and signing.
Celebrate: It’s American Craft Beer Week
Boston’s own Harpoon Brewery will be turning 25 this year. Help them celebrate, and honor the American craft beer industry, at the HarpoonFest this Friday and Saturday, 5:30-11 p.m. On the North Shore, drink local brews and listen to local lore at Ipswich Brewery’s Tales and Ales, also this Friday and Saturday, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Other events related to American Craft Beer Week listed HERE.
Spring on the Farm
This Saturday from 1-5 p.m. Powisset Farm in Dover, MA, will be kicking off its farm season with a “huge” seedling sale, farm tours, live music, events for kids, and vendors selling crafts and food. There is a nominal entrance fee for individuals and families. Farm manager Meryl LaTronica, a monthly contributor to PRK, is hosting. Come one, come all!
Nantucket Wine Festival
Reminder! The Nantucket Wine Festival is happening now through Sunday. Follow the link for more information, tickets and an event schedule.
Food Truck Festival
The food truck bug really has bitten Boston. Need evidence? Find it at The Fabulous Food Truck Festival at the Pinehills in Plymouth, slated for Saturday June 4th, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Expected vendors include: Grilled Cheese Nation, Summer Shack, The Eat Wagon, Kick Ass Cupcakes, Bon Me and Red Barn Coffee. The event is non-ticketed, and a Battle of the Bands competition will provide tunes.
Barbecue Lessons
Just when it turns to spring, most of us start thinking about summer. The Le Cordon Bleu has grilling season in mind as they host Perfect Barbecue Secrets Cooking Demonstration on June 11th. Their promise: to teach you how to fine-tune BBQ meat, veggies and fixings. This free event is also an open house for LCB’s culinary programs, so the school recommends booking a seat. Call (617) 217-8000.
NATIONAL TREATS
Are the dogs safe?
My mother always warned me about not eating from street vendors. The “dirty-water hotdogs” would give me food poisoning, she said. Is there truth in the matter? Read here: “Confessions from a New York street-food vendor.”
No Oysters til 2013?
Flooding in Mississippi will soon have an effect on the state’s oyster supply, so say oyster fishers and experts in the south. Predictions are dire.
Fish on the Radio
NPR’s “Weekend Edition” spoke with cookbook author and chef Barton Seaver about sustainable seafood, including what to shop for and how to cook scrumptious sustainable species. Listen to the interview here and get the recipes. Here’s one to whet your appetite: Bluefish with Creamed Corn and Herbed Croutons.
Buying Taste Online
Extreme foodies are great at finding the rarest, most delicious food-finds. Witness: perfectly aged wines from the back of a cave in Burgundy or smooth, ripe, raw cheeses from a monk in Brooklyn. If you needed/wanted another gourmet way to spend a dollar, however, Gilt Taste launched yesterday, a website to buy your ramps and Wagyu beef without leaving the couch. Make that one hundred dollars.