This month’s Crafty Brunch with “My Life on Craft’s” Mary Izett will be super special. On Sunday, February 5th, from 2-4 p.m., we’ll be welcoming Evolutionary Organics’ Kira Kinney. Since 2003, Kira Kinney has used Evolutionary Organics to make Certified Naturally Grown produce in her part of the Hudson River Valley’s New Paltz, NY, where she farms a little over 20 acres of many heirloom vegetables, baby greens, herbs and pasture raised eggs. Her products are sold weekly at GrowNYC farmer’s market in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn. Her farm was severely impacted by last year’s hurricane and flooding, so we’re happy to turn Mary’s usual artisan event into a Farmer’s Crafty Lunch to benefit Evolutionary Organics.

$10 gets you Jimmy’s No. 43 brunch samples, samples of your hot sauce + cheese/bread, and the chance to mingle with artisan vendors in the back room and help out Kira Kinney’s farm, Evolutionary Organics. The schedule is as follows:

2-3pm Tasting

One of Evolutionary Organics' free-range chickens

Kira will offer samples of her homemade hot sauce paired with Jimmy’s No 43 brunch biscuits and eggs straight from Kira’s farm! Homemade salad dressings from Evolutionary Organics will be served with a fresh green salad.  Featured tastes from Jimmy’s 43 brunch/lunch menu. Beer and wine for sale

3-4 pm Presentation by Kira Kinney exploring Agricultural Labor Issues

Kira will give a speech and presentation about current agricultural labor issues and how they impact the family farm.

You can see more photos of the farm and learn about Kira’s efforts to rebuild following the hurricane on the farm’s Facebook page.

This Saturday, January 28th, from 1-4 p.m. some of the city’s most inventive craft beer wizards will be in the house competing against each other with some really incredible beer-based “cocktails.” Among the challengers and their offerings are: Continue reading Beer Cocktail Brunch Off Challenges City’s Up-And-Coming Bartenders

Ken and Janine at the Crossroads Brewery (photo by Claude Haton/Hudson-Catskill Newspapers)

Jimmy’s No. 43 is very happy to be bringing the owners of Crossroads Brewery, Janine Bennett and Kenny Landin, to town next week to talk about (and drink!) their very yummy beer. A relatively new brewery, Crossroads is located in Athens, NY, and has one of those really cool beer stories (they were looking for a place to showcase musical acts and ended up with a 15,000 square foot historic opera house, which was – of course – the perfect place for a brewery!). Continue reading Meet The Owners Of Crossroads Brewery Next Thursday (1/19)

We love a good cassoulet, and the drop in temperature this week makes Sunday’s Cassoulet Cook-off a well timed event. Competing chefs will include:

• Green Brown Orange’s Alejandro Alcocer, whose cafe/catering company focuses on simplicity of flavors, organic and biodynamic foods from local, seasonal farms;
• Jessica Wilson, formerly of aVoce and Prune;
• Hadley Schmitt of Northern Spy, the East Village Restaurant/Pub that has a menu built around seasonality and quality, whenever possible using locally grown, caught, and produced ingredients;
• Edi and the Wolf’s Eduard Frauneder and Wolfgang Ban will bring some Austrian flare to the cassolet cook-off;
• Phil Conlon of The Highliner Restaurant;

and, of course, Jimmy’s No. 43, which will be offering cassoulet on the menu all next week.

Amateur chefs are competing, as well. You may still join if you sign up with Danielle before Thursday (that’s in two days, so hurry!). Otherwise, tickets are $20 with proceeds to benefit the Greenmarkets’ Hurricane Farm Relief.

It’ll be another amazing face-off between amateur and professional chefs when we host our Fourth Annual Cassoulet Cook Off on January 8th from 1-4 p.m. Whether you’re eating ($20 ticket at the door) or cooking, this is a chance to partake of some great casserole-style fixings! Continue reading Fourth Annual Cassoulet Cook Off To Benefit Greenmarket’s Hurricane Farm Relief