Watch out, French's.

​Anna Wolf is the founder and sole employee at My Friend's Mustard, an artisanal ale mustard producer based in Greenpoint. She gets the Food Curated treatment today in a short documentary that reveals the process behind her Jalapeño IPA Mustard made with Sixpoint Bengali Tiger IPA and Spicy Brown Ale Mustard made with Sixpoint Brownstone Brown Ale. Click through for the video.

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Dinner, anyone?

​This summer, New York State announced a plan to help control its Canada goose population by eliminating some 170,000 birds through gassing, hunting, and birth control. In Prospect Park, some 400 geese were rounded up and euthanized, their bodies then tossed in a landfill. According to hunter, writer, and locavore activist Jackson Landers, this is a huge waste of good meat.

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​The chicken mushroom is a polypore that can be found growing wild in the New York area.

The bracket fungus known as the chicken mushroom (Laetiporus cincinnatus) is widespread in the New York area. It has a pale yellow or bright orange color, and can be found growing on logs in the forest. When cooked, its similarity to chicken -- both visual and taste-wise -- is astonishing, making it a great ingredient in vegetarian or vegan recipes.

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Beauty shots of lettuce and basil abound in this look at Brooklyn Grange, the (nearly) 40,000-square-foot rooftop farm in Long Island City, Queens. You can buy the farm's produce at the Brooklyn Grange Farmers' Market, Roberta's Farmers' Market, and now at Vesta Trattoria Farmers' Market, or enjoy it in dishes at a handful of restaurants.

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Yes, you've seen much of this before. But never as told by food documentarist Liza de Guia. Get your locavorish outdoor market food porn on in the capital of the genre, Brooklyn, as Food Curated goes to the Brooklyn Flea. And while much of the city will be deserted this weekend, the Flea is open, which kind of makes it the best weekend all summer to go.

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​A bantam hen seems proud of her newly laid egg.

Cathy Erway, the author of The Art of Eating In, is launching a new blog Monday that will be the successor to her long-running noteatingoutinny.com. The URL is lunchatsixpoint.com, and the subject matter will be her activities as one of Brooklyn's neophyte urban farmers.

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​On the east side of the West Side Highway, just north of 12th Street, there are garlic scapes in profusion.

Garlic scapes are the green shoots and flower tops of the garlic bulb, which grows underground. The texture is somewhat woody, making for a nice crunch you may have never enjoyed from garlic before. The flavor is stingingly strong, and if some of the juice runs out of the stem and oozes onto your hand, it will smell like garlic for days.

The scapes might have once been part of a roadside planting, but they've descended into anarachy, and many of the tufts are located among forests of weeds. A little goes a long way. Pick two or three, blanch them, and you have a nice salad topping. Sauteed, the same number chopped fine makes a nice omelet. Leave the bulb in the ground when you take the scape and it will reproduce tenfold or more.

​Take only the green shoot and bud on top, and take sparingly, because the scapes are so powerful.

New York gets a new, old-timey vodka.

​There's been a lot of talk about the backlash against the backlash against vodka lately. The supposedly odorless and colorless spirit may not be the antitheses to the current cocktail culture Renaissance, after all. So, go ahead and let yourself get excited about a new locally made vodka expected to hit the shelves next month without having to worry about your drinking cred.

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Dry Dock is now open, and selling Red Hook Winery's rose

​If you've been waiting to try the first Red Hook Winery bottlings, you're going to have to hop to it. Yesterday, while checking out Dry Dock, the new wine shop in Red Hook, we came up upon a small selection of the winery's rose, which is produced in Red Hook with grapes from Jamesport Vineyard on the North Fork of Long Island. There were six bottles left, and we bought one. After the remaining five bottles go, there won't be more until the 2009 vintage is bottled.

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​A spoon, a bowl, and a jug of farmers' market maple syrup are all you need.

Quick! Before the dogs pee on it, go outside and gather snow to make maple sno-cones.

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