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| Chef Mario Batali gardening at NYBG’s Ruth Rea Family Garden’s new Edible Academy, children’s vegetable garden |
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) sent a media alert – asking me to share with my readers and garden audience.
It is my pleasure to tell you about two of my most favorite passions: locavore chefs and edible gardens.
Never mind that Mario Batali is a celebrity chef – he is a committed homegrown chef and one of the featured chefs in my New York Homegrown Cookbook – next in the series, following on The Hamptons & Long Island Homegrown Cookbook.
Plus, I worked at NYBG and was honored to have had the opportunity to promote and tell the good food and garden news of the Ruth Rea Family Garden. I loved the plant filled caterpillar that greeted guests at the entrance with its Hakone grass eyelashes… So sweet.
And I cherish the porcelain covered dish given to me by the Korean family gardeners who worked the cultural garden there… It is a constant reminder of a a beautiful sentiment and edible education exchange.
There is joy and happiness that reigns in this garden.
You can’t miss this:
Join Chef and New York Botanical Garden Board Member Mario Batali on a
culinary adventure on Monday, June 10, from 4–8 p.m., with a delicious picnic supper
and activities, and watch him in action at a live cooking demonstration. All
proceeds benefit the development of the Botanical Garden’s new Edible Academy,
hub of the children’s vegetable gardening program.
culinary adventure on Monday, June 10, from 4–8 p.m., with a delicious picnic supper
and activities, and watch him in action at a live cooking demonstration. All
proceeds benefit the development of the Botanical Garden’s new Edible Academy,
hub of the children’s vegetable gardening program.
The Edible Academy will be a dramatic expansion of the
Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden, creating a year-round learning center that will
educate 80,000 children, teachers, families, and adults each year about the
important connections between plants, gardening, nutrition, and health,
expanding on the wonderful programs already in place at the Family Garden.
Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden, creating a year-round learning center that will
educate 80,000 children, teachers, families, and adults each year about the
important connections between plants, gardening, nutrition, and health,
expanding on the wonderful programs already in place at the Family Garden.
Tickets for Mario’s cooking demo and book signing start at $40 for adults,
$15 for kids. For tickets and information, visit nybg.org/familypicnic,
call 718.817.8773, or email cbalkonis@nybg.org.
$15 for kids. For tickets and information, visit nybg.org/familypicnic,
call 718.817.8773, or email cbalkonis@nybg.org.
WHO: Celebrity Chef and Garden
Board Member Mario Batali Special Cooking Demo Guest Daphne Oz, Mario’s co-host on ABC’s The Chew.
Board Member Mario Batali Special Cooking Demo Guest Daphne Oz, Mario’s co-host on ABC’s The Chew.
WHEN: Monday, June 10,
2013, 4–8 p.m., rain or shine
2013, 4–8 p.m., rain or shine
This exciting culinary adventure begins with a delicious picnic supper designed
personally by Mario. Enjoy your picnic on the beautiful Garden grounds, then
dig in to some hands-on fun in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden. Learn to
harvest vegetables through engaging hands-on tutorials, compete in a
corn-shucking contest, follow clues to Mario’s mystery ingredient, climb a
giant oak tree, see a European eagle owl, make your own chef’s hat, harvest
bags, seed pets, pickles, and more.
personally by Mario. Enjoy your picnic on the beautiful Garden grounds, then
dig in to some hands-on fun in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden. Learn to
harvest vegetables through engaging hands-on tutorials, compete in a
corn-shucking contest, follow clues to Mario’s mystery ingredient, climb a
giant oak tree, see a European eagle owl, make your own chef’s hat, harvest
bags, seed pets, pickles, and more.
Schedule of Events
4–7 p.m. 5:30–6 p.m. 6–6:45
p.m. 7–8 p.m.
p.m. 7–8 p.m.
Garden Picnic and Activities
Book signing with Mario Batali
Cooking
Demonstration featuring Mario Batali and Daphne Oz Cocktail Reception hosted by
Mario Batali and the Edible Academy Chairmen, supported by Whole Foods Market®
Demonstration featuring Mario Batali and Daphne Oz Cocktail Reception hosted by
Mario Batali and the Edible Academy Chairmen, supported by Whole Foods Market®
WHERE: The New York
Botanical Garden Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden
Botanical Garden Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden
