Jimmy's No. 43

09/15/2024

*It's Cider Season!*
Published Date: September 13, 2024
Podcast Episode: 721
As the temperature drops with the leaves, so too do we fall further into harvest season. And with the harvest comes apples. And with apples… Well, you know where this is going.

It’s another juicy cidercast on BSR, with ambassadors from several cider states here to dish out what to expect this cider season.

**As we prep for CiderFeast Brooklyn , October 5th to kick off cider week in NYC***

In the studio today is Middletown, CT’s Ronald Sansone of Spoke + Spy Ciderworks and president of the Cider Institute of North America; Jonathan Oakes of Medina, New York, President of the New York Cider Association, and proprietor of Steampunk Cider; Ben Wenk of Three Springs Fruit Farm in Adams County, Pennsylvania, and current board president of the Pennsylvania Cider Guild; and finally Scott Ramsey of Beacon, NY, and executive director of the New York Cider Association.







Different state cider associations, competitions, and festivals have grown and changed quite a bit over the past 15 years. Tune in to catch up on the state of cider!


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**Join us Oct 5th, in Brooklyn NYC ** at

09/12/2024

Thanks AMNY - Emily Davenport!
"Calling all hard cider fans! CiderFeast NYC is returning to Brooklyn this coming October 5th!

Presented by Food Karma Projects, CiderFeast NYC celebrates all things hard cider. Now in its tenth year, the festival will be the kick off to Cider Week in New York on Oct. 5 at Industry City.

"I was very active at Cider Week in 2014 and organized the first CiderFeast at the Seaport, then loved it so much I kept hosting each year,” said Jimmy Carbone, creator of CiderFeast NYC. “It’s easy to be converted to fine, dry cider when you’re drinking and eating with industry pioneers like Steve Wood of Farnum Hill Cider, Eleanor Leger of Eden Ciders, and Andy Brennan of Aaron Burr Cider. I can’t wait to share these ciders for the tenth year in a row!”

CiderFeast NYC puts a spotlight on over 20 ciders from New York State and the surrounding region. Guests will be able to try sample pours from New York’s Angry Orchard Cider House, Brooklyn Cider House, Graft Cider, Hudson North Cider, Hudson Valley Farmhouse Cider, Indian Ladder Farms Cidery & Brewery, Original Sin Cider, Quartz Rock Vineyard, Sauvage Beverages, and Treasury Cider, Vermont’s Eden Ciders and Vermont Cider Co., New Jersey’s The Ciderhouse at Ironbound Farm, Pennsylvania’s Bucktail Cider Co., European brands Aval Cider (France), Romilly Cidre (France), and Barrika Basque Cider (Spain), and more.

The fest will also include a food menu with cider donuts from Stone Ridge Orchard, Dakota Hams’ 24-month-aged Kentucky ham, selections from whole-animal butcher and salumeria Ends Meat, paella and Parés Baltà wine tasting by Chef Rafa de la Rosa, Cabot Creamery Grilled Cheese hot off the griddles, and hot sauces from BamuBamu Fire Club, Rocket Fuel Foods, and Coney Island Saucery.

Tickets and packages start at $45 (plus fee) per ticket, with VIP and Group options available. For more information, visit ciderfeasthq.com

**
Kick off NY Cider Season with us October 5th at BROOKLYN!

Www.ciderfeasthq.com

09/04/2024

Time Out says

Who says barbecue season is over? Ushering in the good times, this annual BBQ festival is smoking up something special this weekend.

Celebrating its 15th year, Pig Island NYC is returning to Brooklyn this Sunday. Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden will be transformed into a hub for all things porky and smoked. The all-inclusive food festival will feature over 20 chefs cooking up regional cue’ from around the Americas and global flavors. Last year’s champs Robert Austin Cho (Kimchi Smoke and Austin Cho Kitchen) and Vincent Mangual (Empire BBQ) are returning to try and vie for a second crown. They will be up against fierce competition including Rodrigo Duarte (Don Rodrigo), Tank Jackson (Holy City Hogs) and Phil Wingo (Pork Mafia Street Crew). More eats will be on hand including Leland Avellino (Avellino Family Barbecue), Cenobio Canalizo (Morgan's Brooklyn BBQ), Jase Franklyn (Jase BBQ) and more. Refreshments will also be on hand, including craft beer, hard cider and spirits.

08/27/2024

Sauce makers?
Announcing the
Metro NYC  Start Up Category of the 2024 Sauce King NYC™ international sauce awards competition!


Do you have what it takes to be King? Submit your best sauces, rubs, marinades, and condiments to Sauce King NYC™ to find out! The sky's the limit at Sauce King NYC™. Compete to win across categories like best Hot Sauce, Everything Sauce, and Grill sauce. Think your sauces, rubs, marinades, and condiments have something special? Suggest your own category to the judges, and you may just take home a new crown.

The Metro NYC Start Up Category *
 Registration is open now through September10, 2024. 

Visit saucekingnyc.com for all the details.

*Special Category for Metro NYC area amateur and restaurant sauces that are just starting out.*

YES- non shelf stable sauces,

YES- sauces that require refrigeration,

Will be accepted in this Category only.

Register by September 10.

Drop off in person either

SEPTEMBER 10 , 12oon- 8pm

Or

September 11, 12noon -4pm

At

The Bronx Beer Hall
Arthur Avenue Market
The Bronx NYC.

More info at Www.saucekingnyc.com 

Co presented by

, the producers of , , with and

Prizes sponsored by 
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The Metro NYC Start Up Category award is named after our dear friend, Food Karma family.and expert judge with a flair for all things Caribbean - 
Mr. Duane Joseph. ❤️ 🙏
RIP.



Avenue Market

08/22/2024

Love cider ?! Cider curious 🍎...

CiderFeast (tm) kicks off NY Cider Season, October 5th, Saturday at Industry City Brooklyn NYC!

Calling all hard cider fans! CiderFeast NYC is returning to Brooklyn this coming October.

08/13/2024

Bravo ! Can't wait to taste the Legacy pils!

Celebrate the legacy of Anne Saxelby.
Support the annual gala, September 19th at

07/29/2024

Do you have what it takes to be King? Submit your best sauces, rubs, marinades, and condiments to Sauce King NYC™ to find out! The sky's the limit at Sauce King NYC™. Compete to win across categories like best Hot Sauce, Everything Sauce, and Grill sauce. Think your sauces, rubs, marinades, and condiments have something special? Suggest your own category to the judges, and you may just take home a new crown. Registration is open now through August 20, 2024. Visit saucekingnyc.com for all the details.


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07/17/2024

We knew folk singer Heather Woods- many years of monthly back room song nights - led by Ken Schatz . What song should we sing for her passing?
AMEN 😃

The American Folklife Center is sad to note the passing of A. Heather Wood, a folksinger and folk music organizer who is featured in several AFC collections. Heather was always a friend of the AFC and of our staff members. Heather's website includes the statement "I am never ill," and her death occurred quite suddenly yesterday.

Heather was born in England in 1945, and began her singing career with the trio The Young Tradition, which also featured Peter Bellamy and Royston Wood. The Young Tradition was one of the first and most prominent revival groups to perform traditional English folksongs with a capella harmonies, taking traditonal groups like The Copper Family as their model but employing innovative influences from both medieval and modern music. They performed at major folk festivals in the UK and the US, and recorded influential albums that are still treasured listening for many today.

After the Young Tradition stopped performing in 1969, Heather was part of several duos, including with Royston Wood (as "No Relation" since their shared surname was a coincidence) and with former AFC staff member Andy Wallace (as "Crossover"). She was also part of the group "Poor Old Horse."

Heather moved to the U.S. in the 1970s and settled in New York, where she was important to the folk scene as a singer, but also as an organizer and catalyst. She worked with such organizations as the New York Folk Music Society, the Long Island Traditional Music Association, the Youth Traditional Song Weekend, and the TradMad Camp, held at Pinewoods Camp in Plymouth, Massachusetts. (Heather's other interests included science fiction and the search for extraterrestrial life.) As both a singer and an organizer, she attended such festivals as the Old Songs Festival, the Mystic Sea Music Festival, and Folk Alliance International, where she often met and encouraged AFC staff members.

Heather is an important part of several AFC collections. AFC folklorist Nancy Groce interviewed her for the Nancy Groce collection of interviews with culture brokers, and concerts by the Young Tradition are documented in the Izzy Young Collection and the Folklore Society of Greater Washington collection.

Heather had no close relatives and considered the friends she made through folk music to be family. We will miss her wit and wisdom (and of course her songs) at future folk music family gatherings.

Heather sent this picture by an unknown photographer to AFC staff member Stephen Winick a few years ago to be used as a promotional photo.

06/27/2024

Beer Sessions Radio on the Heritage Radio Network news-

We'll be recording Saturday, June 29 at the Pils and Love fest, Threes Brewing , Brooklyn NYC.

So many great folks will be attendance including Good Word Brewing & Public House 's Lucas Todd DiMatteo !

He's been on a few of our podcasts, including below-

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This week on Beer Sessions Radio, Jimmy is getting excited for Memorial Day Weekend grilling and drinking. On the show is Paul Dlugokencky from Blind Bat Brewery in Long Island, NY; Ray Sheehan from BBQ Buddha, and Todd DiMatteo from Good Word Brewing and Public House in Duluth, Georgia. Paul tells....

06/07/2024

Our favorite neighborhood spot is back.
Streecha on east 7th street.
Run by and supporting the St.George Ukrainian church

Article by Stacie Joy

https://evgrieve.com/2024/06/at-reopening-of-longtime-east-village.html?m=1

EVIMA
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06/04/2024

2024 recaps
OYeah!

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Congrats
1st place Judges' winner
2nd place Runner-Up

Next up
September 7th
The 15th annual

05/20/2024

Our daughter Georgia graduated college today!


Grinnell, Iowa

Well done , honors, multiple Deans' Lists, merit awards , and a prestigious Art Department prize.

We love you
Jimmy and Pixie

05/19/2024

Another great weekend on east 7th Street, East Village!
St.George Church Ukrainian Fest- story and photos by E.V. Grieve Stacie Joy.

Veselka :: Beceлкa , East Village Meat Market Inc./ J. Baczynsky

https://evgrieve.com/2024/05/at-annual-ukrainian-festival.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ECx9-nk6EDIftV9gvuaSgn180JcRcZ1qJ8cVSk24lIyMaNdhkuE20pSw_aem_AWWLCveJmEYnB6N14YGJZo0NHMCEWZmXp5v_5yVWmCVxPCOgsIZBE-fxbjkLy__CD4HyrH7n1-kjUmZpd2BAbRtz&m=1

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05/18/2024

Cider podcast 🍎

Episode 709 Aired: Wednesday, May 15th 2024

*Diane Flynt on the Surprising Story of Apples in the South*

We’re shaking things up with a cider episode this week! Jimmy is back at Roberta’s with a special guest who he has known since the early days of Cider Week NYC and Jimmys No. 43.


Diane Flynt, author of Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South, joins Jimmy to talk all about her apples and making great cider. The two will recount the trajectory of craft cider over the years, and Diane will introduce us to the story of apples in the south with a special reading from her book.


Also in the studio today is Kerrie Orrell Ellison to share some stories about picking apples with Diane, and how Diane has taught her to love apples rather than just enjoy them…


Pour up your favorite craft cider and tune in!


Photo 1 courtesy of Stacey Sprenz Photography.

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05/14/2024

CiderFeast Portland Maine Portland Maine, great event,
📸 by Active Beer Geek

05/09/2024

More about CiderFeast!
Ask Active Beer Geek about Portland Maine!

It’s been a breakout year for hard ciders, and Food Karma Projects is celebrating with the 2024 CiderFeast East Coast Tour. CiderFeast brings both up-and-coming and established cideries together for a series of premier mini events across the Northeast, featuring a highly anticipated stop in Portland, ME, at noon on Sunday, May 12, 2024, at Oxbow Blending & Bottling.

We've been hosting Cider events and tastings since the 1st Cider Week in NYC, 2011.

2024- Maine friends- - invited us up to try the best ciders of the region!

***featuring Maine ciders, and ciders registered in/ distributed in Maine****

Sample all the best ciders in the region and beyond in one afternoon, featuring pours from Absolem Cider Company, Rocky Ground Cider, Aprés, Freedom's Edge Cider, and more. Head to Anoche next door for the informal afterparty and cider fan hangout with more drinks and food for purchase, rounding out an especially refreshing Mother’s Day.

Every CiderFeast attendee receives a CiderFeast Souvenir Tasting Glass for all-access cider tastings from 15+ local cider makers, plus an exclusive CiderFeast Portland Swag Bag. Meet, mingle, and get the stories behind the next big ciders straight from the producers. More information on CiderFeast Portland, special edition merch, and ticket details are available at CiderFeastHQ.com.

Join CiderFeast's journey to Portland, Haverhill, Brooklyn, and Boston and enjoy an incredible range of local hard ciders and food.

05/09/2024

May 12, Sunday ,
moms like cider 😃
CiderFeast Portland Maine
At Oxbow Blending & Bottling

05/06/2024

May 25. Kick off summer with us!
at outdoor courtyard 1/2.
Brooklyn NYC
Enter 635 - 2nd Ave, Brooklyn.

Tickets at Www.ribkingnyc.com

All Access food and drink tasting event 12noon - 4pm

Community partner

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05/01/2024

May 25 Rib King NYC bbq + Live Music Event , Industry City Brooklyn

04/12/2024

Planning out May 12 Portland, Maine CiderFeast tm event.
Angus of messaged that he is bringing " Bunk" to the event.

Flashback to 2015.
John Bunker was in NYC visiting Wassail cider bar. We recorded this podcast . (Love the Heritage Radio Network time machine !) HRN ,

"Episode 307 Aired: Tuesday, December 29th 2015

Cider Sessions: John Bunker.
Tune in for a very special conversation with apple expert John Bunker.

John grew up in Massachusetts and California, but on his first visit to Maine at age 11, he knew that Maine is where he would make his home. He moved to Super Chilly Farm with a bunch of friends on the day he graduated from Colby College and has never left. Over the years he has tried his hand at many different ventures- teaching high school English, managing the Belfast Co-op Store, selling salads and cider at the Common Ground Fair, teaching shop at Pine Island Camp, building houses and purchasing for the Federation of Maine Co-ops. Yet none of these things grabbed his attention like the the old apple trees growing in the fields around Palermo. As he picked the fruits from these neglected trees each fall, he began to notices the differences in the apples – to his surprise they were not all Macs. Through seasons of observation and hours of discussions with the old timers around town, he learned to identify the different varieties and appreciate their stories. His interest grew into a passion that became his life’s work.

John’s most recent project is creating the Maine Heritage Orchard at MOFGA. This orchard which is located in a renovated gravel pit adjacent to the MOFGA fairgrounds will be home to 500 or more historic pears and apples. When he is not thinking about apples, he….ok, he is always thinking about apples."

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Cider Sessions 2015
John Bunker

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Portland May 12 in Portland Maine

04/12/2024

Planning out May 12 Portland, Maine CiderFeast tm event.

Angus of Rocky Ground Cider messaged that he is bringing " Bunk" to the event.

Flashback to 2015.
John Bunker was in NYC visiting Wassail cider bar. We recorded this podcast . (Love the Heritage Radio Network time machine !)

"Episode 307 Aired: Tuesday, December 29th 2015

Cider Sessions: John Bunker.
Tune in for a very special conversation with apple expert John Bunker.

John grew up in Massachusetts and California, but on his first visit to Maine at age 11, he knew that Maine is where he would make his home. He moved to Super Chilly Farm with a bunch of friends on the day he graduated from Colby College and has never left. Over the years he has tried his hand at many different ventures- teaching high school English, managing the Belfast Co-op Store, selling salads and cider at the Common Ground Fair, teaching shop at Pine Island Camp, building houses and purchasing for the Federation of Maine Co-ops. Yet none of these things grabbed his attention like the the old apple trees growing in the fields around Palermo. As he picked the fruits from these neglected trees each fall, he began to notices the differences in the apples – to his surprise they were not all Macs. Through seasons of observation and hours of discussions with the old timers around town, he learned to identify the different varieties and appreciate their stories. His interest grew into a passion that became his life’s work.

John’s most recent project is creating the Maine Heritage Orchard at MOFGA. This orchard which is located in a renovated gravel pit adjacent to the MOFGA fairgrounds will be home to 500 or more historic pears and apples. When he is not thinking about apples, he….ok, he is always thinking about apples."

Beer Sessions Radio on the Heritage Radio Network
Cider Sessions 2015
John Bunker

https://beer-sessions-radio-tm.simplecast.com/episodes/e91b1406

04/05/2024

CiderFeast is coming to Portland Maine, May 12, Sunday.12-3pm.

You asked and we listened: CiderFeast is coming to Portland, Maine, on Sunday, May 12!


Cider takes center stage on the coolest street in Portland. Join us at Oxbow Blending & Bottling, right next to the best cider bar, Anoche Cider and Spirits, to sample over 40 ciders from more than 15 cider makers at CiderFeast Portland.

This is your chance to try all the best ciders in the region at once, with sample pours from Absolem Cider Company, Rocky Ground Cider, Aprés, Freedom’s Edge Cider, and more. Stay tuned for the lineup of all the cideries participating at CiderFeast Portland.

Food will be available for purchase, including hot, golden, crispy duck-fat-fried Belgian frites (that’s fries!) from Duckfat, Portland’s most buzzy food truck, on-site for the day.

-We are signing up Maine ciders, as well as ciders registered / distributed in Maine. Reach out.

Tickets and more info-

General Admission – $35 + fee
Entry at noon, All-access to all cider samples, CiderFeast Souvenir Tasting Glass, CiderFeast Portland Swag Bag, Meet and mingle with cider makers, and Live Music.

CiderFeast Portland T-Shirt
Special edition CiderFeast Portland t-shirts by area artist Mark Reusch are available for pickup at the event. Reserve yours in advance for $15 (+ fee) or for $20 (+ fee) the day of the event.

Www.ciderfeasthq.com

04/04/2024

Congrats Diane Flynt

Nach Waxman Prize for Food and Beverage Scholarship Kitchen Arts & Letters bookstore and the Waxman family are delighted to announce a short list of nominations for the new Nach Waxman Prize for Food and Beverage Scholarship. The prize includes an award of $5,500 and highlights a US-published bo...

03/22/2024

All LAGER BREWERY Coming to Brooklyn

Latest podcast by Beer Sessions Radio on the Heritage Radio Network

NYC Beer Week 2024 is off with a bang! Live from the scene, Jimmy is at Gun Hill Publick House at Industry City following the Opening Bash event held on Saturday, February 24. This episode is going to include a barrel of useful information on everything from how to make a good lager to how to open a...

03/17/2024

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03/14/2024

Save the date- CiderFeast is coming to Portland Maine, May 12, Sunday.12-3pm.

You asked and we listened: CiderFeast is coming to Portland, Maine, on Sunday, May 12!

Cider takes center stage on the coolest street in Portland. Join us at Oxbow Blending & Bottling, right next to the best cider bar, Anoche Cider and Spirits, to sample over 40 ciders from more than 15 cider makers at CiderFeast Portland.

This is your chance to try all the best ciders in the region at once, with sample pours from Absolem Cider Company, Rocky Ground Cider, Aprés, Freedom’s Edge Cider, and more. Stay tuned for the lineup of all the cideries participating at CiderFeast Portland.

Food will be available for purchase, including hot, golden, crispy duck-fat-fried Belgian frites (that’s fries!) from Duckfat, Portland’s most buzzy food truck, on-site for the day.

-We are signing up Maine ciders, as well as ciders registered / distributed in Maine. Reach out.

Tickets and more info-

General Admission – $35 + fee
Entry at noon, All-access to all cider samples, CiderFeast Souvenir Tasting Glass, CiderFeast Portland Swag Bag, Meet and mingle with cider makers, and Live Music.

CiderFeast Portland T-Shirt
Special edition CiderFeast Portland t-shirts by area artist Mark Reusch are available for pickup at the event. Reserve yours in advance for $15 (+ fee) or for $20 (+ fee) the day of the event.

Www.ciderfeasthq.com

03/10/2024

Big Guns BBQ!

The 12th is back in Astoria Queens, April 17th!

Chef sneak preview -
Sean Keever and crew!

Stay tuned for press release and more Info

Earl bird and VIP tickets on sale at Www.brisketkingnyc.com

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Our 2nd year at in Astoria NYC.

VIP tickets include-
-1 hour early admit at 5pm
- custom event tshirt by
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