Near the ANIMAL office alone, there are purpleleaf plums, honeylocust, and swamp white oak. Near my apartment, black locust, small-leaved linden, and chokecherry. All of them are edible in some way–honey locusts’ pods can be eaten, as can black locust’s flowers, and the seeds of swamp white oak can be used as a thickening agent. Honeylocust can apparently be used in beer.
How do I know? This brilliant map, which gives the location of every edible plant in the city (and over a dozen other cities), down to the street corner. Not everything is easy to eat right off the branch, however. “There’s a lot of gray area,” says Ethan Welty, one of the two people behind Falling Fruit, the organization behind map. “A lot of judgment calls to be made.”
Have you ever loved someone so much that you wished you could just EAT THEM UP, so they could be inside of you forever? You can. In Japan. Sort of. In honor of White Day (Japan's second Valentine's Day), the masterminds at Japanese bistro FabCafe will offer customers the unprecedented…
A chocolate shop in the East Village that sells exquisite foil-wrapped chocolate statues of religious figures has sparked controversy among Hindus, Buddhists and Catholics reports the New York Times. The figurines include Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and the Virgin of Guadalupe. Notably, the collection does not include the Prophet Mohammad.…
For a recent feature commissioned by British foodie magazine The Gourmand, photographer Catherine Losing created the mesmerizing series The Serpent That Ate Its Own Tail. Losing's bizarre shots depict edible suicide missions, from a row of pierced eyeballs overseeing the deep-frying demise of dismembered chicken parts to an octopus grasping at an…
