Food Inc.//How on earth did we get this far

You need to watch this movie. Irresponsible behavior on the part of consumers, Big Food companies and *cough* the government have made America sick, fat and stupid. I said it. You read it.
Food Inc, is an honest look at something that should be simple, but is eerily complex: where our food [...]

Heath

Grub Street brings us a sneak peak into The Five Leaves, a new bar/bistro in Williamsburg that was backed by Heath Ledger (though his tragic death out the project on hold, his father released funds to complete the project as it meant so much to Heath). The Five Leaves is named after Swan cigarette papers [...]

Fresh flick

I can’t wait to see The Wackness. I. can’t. wait.
Set in that sweltering summer of 1994 NYC, it’s basically an ode to my coming-of-age-hood. Or, at least I hope it will be. Judging from the fact that writer/director Jonathan Levine is the younger brother of a kid we all used to know back in the [...]

One spring roll, sesame chicken and a diet coke for delivery please

Check it – a flick from 2004 opened last weekend at Quad Cinemas. “Take Out” is a film about the life of illegal Chinese immigrants making there way around Manhattan, delivering food and making a living. It got a great review in the NYT and what else is more New York than ordering in yummy [...]

Weekending…

TO DO:
- The Food Film Festival starts this weekend Check it out
- Get Ice Cream at one of the ice cream trucks in DUMBO
- Go to the farmers market, get scallops, sage and bacon and make the best scallops ever. Pair this little dish with a chipotle-lime mashed potato and a cool cucumber-mint salad for [...]

NYC food film festival

Kiddies. I am totally buggin’.
The NYC Food Film Festival is back and betta than ever…this year, the event will be held over the course of a week (versus 3 weekends last year) and will feature some fun flicks…and food of course. What’s really dope about this film fest, is that it’s at Water Taxi [...]

you’re so money and you don’t even know it

thank you sir, may i have another?
gastro girls love a good movie:
have you ever sat in a movie, then it ended and you didn’t want to get up because you didn’t want it to end so you stayed until the very very last frame of the credits? a rarity. an anomaly, this simply doesn’t happen [...]