Courtney Moy is a self-proclaimed “Artist, Printmaker, Innovator and Food Geek”. Her recently completed project – Fridays Boiled Rice is Saturdays Fried Rice is Sundays Chicken Rice Soup is Mondays Trash – is a zine replete with prints, drawings and images creating a personal exploration of the intersection between food, culture, art and identity.

 Courtney Moy’s drawings are at once quirky, delightful and personable. Beginning on the first page of her recently completed zine, Fridays Boiled Rice is Saturdays Fried Rice is Sundays Chicken Rice Soup is Mondays Trash; Courtney creates images of seemingly mundane food items… Read more…

With V-Day coming up, make something sweet for your sweetie, and on the cheap too! May we suggest brigadeiro, a Brazilian truffle-like confection that tastes as good as it looks. Union Square resident Elizabete Delfino shares her trusted recipe with Nibble.
 

Last year we met Elizabete Delfino, a member of SAC’s Intercambio Language and Culture Exchange and an unbelievable cook. Recently Elizabete gave us a step-by-step tutorial on how to make brigadeiro. This confectionary workshop was photographed by Dustin Kerstein, whose photos are seen here.

Also known as “negrinho,” the brigadeiro was first concocted… Read more…

World traveller and local artisan, potter Jeremy Ogusky hand forms the ceramic vessels specially made for fermenting vegetables and more.

Jeremy Ogusky is an artist and activist: by creating functional ceramic art for use in the kitchen & home, Jeremy makes beautiful and useful objects while also building a more just economy and appreciation for craft. By making his wares accessible through his website and an online shop, Jeremy works towards subverting a system of “consuming conspicuously” and cheaply and provides a platform for community members and the world at large to make a conscious decision to… Read more…

An afternoon with Cheolhyeon “James” Jeong, Arts Council Volunteer Extraordinaire, Rachel Strutt, and new Nibble Scribe Raleigh Strott, on a mini-tour of Korean eats in Union Square.
 

It was a crisp and wintery afternoon when Rachel and Raleigh met James at Buk Kyung for some hot tea, outstanding food and a primer on Korean cuisine.

Upon arriving, we were seated quickly and brought tall steaming glasses of tea, a very welcome respite from the cold. While we perused the menu, James clarified for us that many of the dishes served come from the southern-most areas of South Korea, where… Read more…

Rotisserie chicken + quinoa + a huancaína sauce spiced up with amarillo chile = pollo paradise. Here we offer our top 5 recommendations at Machu Picchu’s polleria.

As you may know, there’s not one, but two Machu Picchu Peruvian restaurants in Union Square. One is a fancier sit-down affair; the other one—called Machu Picchu Charcoal Chicken and Grill— is more casual and, as you might deduce, focuses on chicken. Lord knows why it took us so long to discover this place, but now that we’ve found it, we’re eating so much chicken there we’re starting to sprout… Read more…