President Bill Clinton, Founder of the Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States, officially kicked-off the inaugural Harlem EatUp! Festival, Saturday May 16, 2015 in Morningside Park. Continue reading
“Melba’s” Owner Melba Wilson On The Danny Tisdale Show HW Radio Podcast
Today Danny spoke to Melba Wilson on The Danny Tisdale Show, about her fantastic restaurant Melba's at 300 West 114th Street at Frederick Douglass Blvd, in Harlem, Continue reading
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Homebound Harlem Senior Get Special Meals From NYC Chefs
Today two of New York City’s finest chefs, Ben Pollinger of Oceana and Alex Reyes of Fifth Dining at Saks Fifth Avenue, prepared meals for their frail aged neighbors as part of the Chefs Deliver for Citymeals program.Continue reading
Dining With Miss Lil At Vinateria is Buono and Chic
By Lil Nickelson
Vinateria is the latest restaurant that I chose to review after meeting its owner, Yvette Leeper-Bueno, her mother, Mrs. Leeper and Executive Chef Gustavo Lopez at the Harlem Eat Up Festival’s great chefs in Harlem photo shoot on April 1st. Continue reading
Harlem’s Melba Wilson Featured On New CNBC Reality Show Consumed (video)
CNBC is on the verge of launching their latest reality show entitled, Consumed: The Real Restaurant Business, premieres on Wednesday, May 13th. Continue reading
New Leaf Restaurant Reopens In Fort Tryon Park
New Leaf, constructed in the 1930’s, was envisioned by the Olmsted brothers – heirs of the designer of New York City’s Central Park – as a concession building for a public cafeteria and park administration offices. .
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Dining With Miss Lil: Blujeen Restaurant Opened & It’s a Smash Hit
By Lil Nickelson
Back in March 2015 Executive Chef Lance Knowling was getting antsy waiting to open up Blujeen Restaurant so he invited a select number of people to his pre-opening launch party that was held for two (2) hours on Friday, March 27th, 2015. Continue reading
Up Close with CC Minton: C-CAP Awards NYC Public School Students & Alumni
At the Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) New York Awards Breakfast, C-CAP President Susan Robbins alongside C-CAP Founder & Chairman Richard Grausman presented more than $750,000 in scholarships and cash awards to 21 high school seniors and alumni at the Pierre Hotel on Friday, April 17th. Continue reading
Marcus Samuelsson: West Indian-Style Channa Wrap Recipe
By Marcus Samuelsson
There’s spicy and then there’s this: spicy that’s so hot you can’t stop shoveling it into your mouth, bite after painful bite, because the second you pause, you’ll feel the full wrath of the burn in all of its glory.Continue reading
Dining With Miss Lil: LoLo’s Seafood Shack is Crazy Great
By Lil Nickelson
My tasting to review LoLo’s Seafood Shack took place on the evening of the first day in spring; it snowed all day and a cold was coming down on me. I didn’t want to get out of my bed, let alone go outside. Continue reading
Up Close With CC Minton: NYC Student Chefs Turn Cooking into Cash
By CC Minton On Thursday April 2nd, twenty-two New York City public high school students competed for hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) Cooking competition. Continue reading
Sylvia’s Tren’ness Woods-Black Talks Harlem’s Vibrant Future
At midafternoon on a cold late-winter day, Tren'ness Woods-Black is perched at a table at Sylvia's in Harlem, eating cornbread and sipping hot tea, and insisting that I order a sweet tea. ("Welcome to soul," she says.)Continue reading
Harlem’s Whole Foods Is Finally On The Rise
It's been nearly three years since Whole Foods announced that it would land on 125th Street in Harlem, and even longer that the site's been nothing but a hole in the ground. Continue reading
Marcus Samuelsson: Spring Asparagus Tart Recipe
For the first time, last year, I bought a bunch of asparagus at the farmers’ market. Until that point, I had only bought asparagus from a grocery store, and it very well could have been December. I stashed the bundle in my shopping bag and walked home, unsure of how I’d prepare the vegetable.Continue reading
The Danny Tisdale Show Talks Harlem EatUp!
Today Danny Tisdale, on The Danny Tisdale Show welcomes Harlem World Magazines Editors Event Ambassador and Wellness writer CC Minton and Food writer Lil Nickelson to talk about the behind the scenes launch of the recent HarlemEatUp events in Harlem. We’ll talk about Harlem EatUp! Festival. Continue reading
