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“Edible Gardens, Running for Burgers, and Flash Back to the 80s”

All Weekend (and all summer): The Edible Garden at The New York Botanical Garden

At this point, eating local, sustainable food has become both accepted and fashionable.  (I mean, there’s a garden on the White House Lawn.) But sometimes the locavore label can seem more like proselytizing than encouragement – where’s the fun? The New York Botanical Garden’s summer-long celebration brings together celebrity chefs, veggies, flowers, and beer to show you how this thing that’s good for you (and the environment) is also a good time.

The event takes place throughout the Garden’s 250-acre landscape where, from June 27 to September 13, there will be exhibits (like Martha Stewart’s Culinary Herb Garden and the Beginner’s Vegetable Garden), a flower show in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory (Tropical Fruits, Roots, and Shoots) and even an Edible Audio Tour narrated by Mario Batali and Bette Midler (!), with commentary by Dan Barber of Blue Hill, explaining the origins of the food we eat and how it gets from farm to table.  

There will also be two full-on festival weekends: The Edible Local Garden (June 27-28) celebrates the local and sustainable food movement, with cooking demonstrations, food, wine and beer tastings on the Terrace, Q&As with gardening experts and book signings with cookbook and gardening authors. The Edible Global Garden: Buy Local, Cook Global (September 12-13), focuses on food culture from around the world, with cooking and gardening demos, a gathering of cookbook authors, and tastings of food, wine and beer from far-flung places.

Take a look at the summer’s schedule (nybg.org) –  there are different plant and flower tours of the gorgeous grounds, nighttime food and drink events (like A Taste of Arthur Avenue and Grilling from the Garden), kids’ events – really, just great stuff.

The New York Botanical Garden is located at Bronx River Parkway and Fordham Road.

—Susan Kane Walkush

Saturday: City Running Tour Hosts ‘bRUNch’

We all love a good burger. But what happens when guilt sets in for all the grease and calories you’ve consumed? Enter City Running Tours. This group of fleet-footed folks is introducing a “bRUNch” on Saturday, June 27 that’ll leave you feeling like you deserve a hunk of ground beef and all its accoutrements. Here’s the deal: You pay $50 for a City Running Tours guide to take you on a five-mile run through Manhattan complete with a tour of landmarks and sights. Your race day entry also includes a prix fixe brunch at from the new burgers brunch menu at Stand. Our advice? Run fast!Check in at 9:30 and the race begins at 10am. Register at http://www.cityrunningtours.com/nyc/bRUNch.html.

—Bao Ong

Sunday: Flashback to the ‘80s at Gotham Bar & Grill, 12 East 12th St, 212-620-4020

Break out your shoulder pads, leg warmers, and Walkman! It’s time to flash back to the ‘80s at Gotham Bar and Grill. To celebrate their 25th anniversary, the restaurant will turn back the clocks to the dawn of MTV, Studio 54, and Reaganomics every Sunday night this summer, serving classic dishes from the ‘80s like goat cheese ravioli with roast tomato, pancetta, fettuccini with basil and Maine lobster bolognese sauce, and Gotham roast chicken with summer vegetables, shoestring potatoes. And the best part? They’re charging their original – now unbeatable – 1980s prices. Dine out in the ‘80s will run every Sunday starting this week through Labor Day.

And that’s your Strong Buzz for this week! Stay tuned to the Strong Buzz daily for cutting edge news, reviews, events and more!
 

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