Eat Cetera: Tasting Brooklyn, Whisky Live, Vegetarian Food Fest
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<strong>Veg Out:</strong> There couldn't be a more perfect way to get ready for warm weather and all the earthly abundance of Spring than with <a href="http://nycvegfoodfest.com/">the NYC Vegetarian Food Festival</a>, which on April 3rd welcomes "foodies, locavores, vegetarians, vegans, and flexitarians" alike to their "cruelty-free" fete. After eating your way through a smorgasbord of vegan samples, you can settle in for cooking lessons, lectures on topics like fermented foods, vegan parenting, and eating-as-activism, or catch a yoga demonstration given by teachers from the Jivamukti Yoga Center. Live musical performances and belly dancing are also included in the day's festivities. <p></p>Beginning at 10 a.m. and ending at 6 p.m., this celebration is FREE and open to the publicâan invitation which deliberately touches on the need for more widespread, inclusive education about vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. â <em>Melanie Jane Parker </em><p></p><em>The Altman Building,135 West 18th Street </em>
<em>The menu map at <a href="http://gothamist.com/2010/11/17/brooklyneer_is_it_obnoxious_to_open.php#photo-5">Brooklyneer</a>, which is in Manhattan and not part of Tasting Brooklyn, but we're using it anyway.</em><p></p><strong>Tasting Brooklyn:</strong> We're told this is the first ever tasting event to celebrate Brooklynâs culinary diversity, so you'll want to be there if only so your future self can talk about how you were into it before anyone else. As the name suggests, <a href="http://www.brooklynexposed.com/index.php/tastingbrooklyn">the event</a>, on Tuesday, April 5th, will showcase over 25 of the borough's restaurants and bars, including Clover Club, Fornino, Loreley Williamsburg, Palo Santo, Purple Yam, reBar, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Stone Park Café, Tanoreen, The Chocolate Room and Thistle Hill Tavern. (It's also the first birthday part for <a href="http://mail.google.com/a/gothamist.com/#search/magdalena%40mstcreative.com/12efe65b0ebd50ba">Brooklyn Exposed</a>, the guide to all things Kings County.)<p></p>Bouké Wines and Brooklyn Oenology will provide the wine, and Pool Vodka is the liquor sponsor. Tickets are $45, with proceeds benefiting The <a href="http://brooklynfoodcoalition.ning.com/">Brooklyn Food Coalition</a>, a community group dedicated to promoting healthy, sustainable, local food among Brooklynites. <p></p><em>Dumbo Loft at 155 Water Street, <a href="http://www.brooklynexposed.com/index.php/tastingbrooklyn">tickets</a></em>
<strong>Whisky Live: </strong>Sample over 150 whiskies from around the world at next week's big Whisky Live extravaganza at Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers. $105 gets you a full buffet, a commemorative Whisky Live tasting glass, and 6 drink vouchers (additional vouchers available on the evening at $2.50 each). And that's not all! The April 6th event, which takes place on <a href="http://www.tartanday.org/">Tartan Day</a>, will also feature the musical stylings of The Whisky Kiss, whisky and chocolate pairings, a bartender competition to concoct the best whisky cocktail, and a Scottish kilt designer doing fittings. <p></p><em>Pier Sixty, 23rd Street on the Hudson River; <a href="http://www.whiskylive.com/usa/21/new-york-2011">Tickets</a></em>