A Cookies & Milk Party
The third annual Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival presented by Food & Wine and Travel + Leisure took place this past October 7th - 10th. This festival benefits two very worthy hunger relief organizations, The Food Bank of New York City and Share Our Strength. I had the great pleasure of hosting one event last Saturday morning called Milk and Cookies held at The New York Times Building. I was joined by many wonderful chefs from some of my favorite restaurants and bakeries, who shared a fabulous cookie assortment with the crowd. Milk was provided by The Manhattan Milk Company, which delivers old-fashioned glass bottles of local organic milk to Manhattan and Brooklyn.
During the event, I gave a demo of MSLO’s new cookie app for the iPad, called Martha Stewart Makes Cookies, and will be available at the iTunes Store on November 1st. This interactive app contains more than 50 of our favorite cookie recipes, each with a beautiful image. It is complete with how-to-videos, photos, timers, shopping lists, packaging tips, and a place to add your own notes. Also on November 1st, look on newsstands for our latest Martha Stewart Holiday Cookies special issue.
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- This is one of four MSLO activity stations set up for children and their parents. This one had crafting supplies from the Martha Stewart Crafts line at Michaels.
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- And this, of course, is our terrific Cookies book. It has 175 recipes and variations that showcase all kinds of flavors and fancies.
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- I’m really proud of our new and gorgeously designed ‘cookie app’ for the iPad. Look for its debut on November 1st.
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- Also on November 1st, look for the latest Martha Stewart Holiday Cookies special issue. It’s filled with great ideas.
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- Jennifer Aaronson – MSLO Food Editor – busy at work
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- This work station offered Halloween cutout cookies for decoration.
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- MSLO crafter – Kristin St. Clair manned the crafting station.
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- Martha Stewart Television Chef – Thomas Joseph and Crafting Expert – Kristin St. Clair
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- This was the Martha Stewart Milk & Cookies presentation table all nicely decorated for Halloween.
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- We served lemon glazed candied ginger cookies, dark chocolate espresso cookies, and walnut cranberry orange biscotti.
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- Here I am with Jane Ventresca from MSLO events team.
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- And here I am with Festival Founder and Director – Lee Brian Schrager of Southern Wine & Spirits of America.
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- MSLO Events team – Heather Kirkland and Jane Ventresca
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- I gave a little demo of the new cookie app, which we taped for my TV show.
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- Nancy Olson, from Gramercy Tavern, served great chocolate peanut butter cookies. www.gramercytavern.com
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- I pulled this lovely girl out of crowd to talk about cookies.
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- Randy Eastman and Tavitha Remo of Restaurant Associates offered hazelnut chocolate chip cookies, salted peanut butter with concord grape jelly, and dried cranberry & white chocolate chip cookies. www.restaurantassociates.com
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- Did you know that the concord grape is one of three berries native to North America? The others are blueberries and cranberries.
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- Sisha Ortuzar of ‘wichcraft prepared peanut butter cream’wiches and chocolate cream’wiches. Yum! www.wichcraftnyc.com
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- Chatting with Breville representative Adele Schober
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- Chatting with Marlo Scott of Sweet Revenge about her fabulous creations www.sweetrevengenyc.com
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- Florian Bellanger of Mad Mac brought a colorful display of fabulous French Macarons. www.madmacnyc.com
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- Here I am welcoming the crowd and talking about the new Holiday cookie issue and also our most exciting iPad app.
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- I gave a brief demo of the app called Martha Stewart Makes Cookies.
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- Posing with the crowd while enjoying a cookie and milk
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- Speaking with Jill Brack of Glow Gluten Free and daughter Stella – Jill’s secret recipe includes garbanzo bean and coconut flour. www.glowglutenfree.com
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- My friend, Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery served chocolate chip cookies. These were great! www.sullivanstreetbakery.com
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- Pastry chef Karen DeMasco of Locanda Verde offered tasty oatmeal white chocolate-cream sandwiches, Nutella cookie, and neros. www.locandaverdenyc.com
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- Discussing Salt-n-Pepper cookies with Baked founders Renato Poliafito and Matt Lewis – Eric Wolitzky to my right www.bakednyc.com
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- Here I am standing next to chocolate gurus, Jacques Tores and Ken Goto. www.mrchocolate.com
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- Being interviewed by Carla Spartos of the New York Post
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- John Barricelli of The SoNo Baaking Company & Cafe served chocolate cherry chunk cookies, almond macaroons, and praline pecan squares. www.sonobaking.com
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- Posing with Terri Hershkowitz of Cookie Couture and her husband Alan, and daughters Brittney and Danielle www.giftscouture.com
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- Gina De Palma, pastry chef at Babbo is the author of Dolce Italiano – Desserts From the Babbo Kitchen.
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- Alexandre Petrossian of Petrossian Boutique had a lovely assortment of cookies. www.petrossian.com
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- It was nice seeing Amy Scherber of Amy’s Bread. www.amysbread.com
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- Standing with Frank Acosta of Manhattan Milk Company, who provided all the milk. They deliver organic milk in glass bottles in Manhattan and Brooklyn. www.manhattanmilk.com
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- Manhattan Milk Company product
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- MSLO’s Sarah Carey and children Mickayla and Hayden
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- Two of my young fans wanted an autograph.
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