News For Foodies: 10.23.14

East End Food Hub Grant

The Amagansett Food Institute has received a $25,000 grant through the United States Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Promotion Program. The grant will be used to study the feasibility of a food hub on the East End, where locally produced food could be collected, marketed, and distributed to institutional and wholesale buyers.

A consultant will be engaged to determine whether a food hub could help members of the food institute expand their businesses.

Wainscott Main Wine and Spirits

The weekly Wednesday series of tastings and discussions at Wainscott Main, the carefully curated wine and liquor store, continues on Wednesday with “Making the Dessert Course Count: Dessert Wines and Fortified,” with Michael Cohen, wine director at the 1770 House restaurant and inn in East Hampton.

The session begins at 5:30 p.m. and costs $10. Those interested can register by emailing [email protected] or calling the store to sign up.

Dinner With Winemakers

At Noah’s restaurant in Greenport, a series of dinners with local winemakers will continue on Sunday at 6 p.m. with a visit from Michael Kontokosta of Kontokosta Winery. A five-course tasting menu will be paired with his wines, and he will discuss the various pairings.

The cost is $95 per person plus tax and gratuity. The meal will include roasted Peconic Gold oysters, endive radicchio salad, pan-roasted local sea bass, slow-roasted Crescent Farm duck, and a dessert featuring Catapano Farms goat cheese, local apples, honey, and homemade raisin-walnut bread.