Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant

Subject: Music: Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca NY
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 08:00 PM

I was told there are music gatherings at the Moosewood restaurant located in downtown Ithaca, NY.
Does anyone know anything about this?
I would greatly appreciate your help,
Thanks,
Little Neo

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 08:04 PM

Ohhhhhhhhh.....I LOVE the Moosewood! I don't know much about the music gatherings (although what a GREAT place for it..outside cafe, guitar shop across the hall) but the food is WONDERFUL! The fresh squeeze grapefruit juice is HEAVEN....the carrot juice tastes like dirt but more orangey..........

Are you from the Ithaca area?

Michelle

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 08:08 PM

No Michelle, I'm north of the border. I was interested in heading down to Ithica because I heard there is an interesting gathering of musicians that meets at the restaurant on a regular basis.

The food must be amazing if it is anything like their cookbooks.

LN

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 08:13 PM

My husband works in the Ithaca area...I'll have him bring home some of the college type newspapers that will be sure to have the musical scene info. There's another place called The Nines that sometimes has bluegrass/old timey performers. Recently a group called The Wilders played there....incredible performers.

I'll get you an update. :)

And the food.....SO GOOD!

Michelle

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restauran
From: Burke
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 08:20 PM

For Information on Ithaca music try Folkstuff or Cornell Folksong Club

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 08:24 PM

Hey Michelle, many thanks for asking your husband. I will check back.

Dear Burke, thanks a billion for the links

Little Neo

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 08:31 PM

http://www.moosewoodrestaurant.com/announcements.html

This site lists the goings on at the Moosewood. It looks like it may just be from the summer but there are phone numbers and such if you would want to call and check it out.

Michelle

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 09:02 PM

Hardi and I met Little Hawk and Hesperis there. We had instruments along, and played a little; people liked it. Did we start a trend?????

~S~

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restauran
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 09:19 PM

Clicky for LilyFestre's link

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 12:00 PM

We have an excellent hippy-era cookbook (probably from the early-to-mid-70s) whose title refers to the Moosewood -- same place?

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: M.Ted
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 02:11 PM

Same place--doesn't everybody have a copy of "The Moosewood Cookbook"?

The official cookbook from the Moosewood Collective is actually called--"Sundays at the Moosewood Restaurant" because the "Moosewood Cookbook" had already been published by a former member of the collective, Mollie Katzen, much to the chagrin of the folks at the restaurant--

Not being one to take sides, I have both (and several follow ups, as well), but I think that the best recipes were in the Moosewood Cookbook--

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 02:21 PM

Is it THE Moosewood tho, or are there now several? If several, where's the original?

~S~

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 02:23 PM

Thanks, Ted.

I'm pretty sure the cookbook we have is the earlier unauthorized one; I don't recall "Sundays" as part of the title.

Apologies to the original collective members were apparently ripped off by their former colleague.

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 02:56 PM

there have been a number of different moosewood cookbooks - at least three that I can recall.

In the early 70's when I was in Ithaca it was quite a new thing -

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 03:31 PM

According to their own site Moosewood has published ten cookbooks (Not counting Mollie various cookbooks) - but I can't find any publication dates prior to 1990. Mollie's 'Moosewood Cookbook' came out in 1972 and 'Enchanted Broccoli Forest' wasn't much later then that.

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 03:36 PM

You were there when we met LH and Hess too werne;t you Leo? Came late, sat across from me?

CRS.

~S~

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 03:39 PM

had coffee - sang "The Wolfhound"

Subject: RE: Review: Music Gathering at Moosewood Restaurant
From: M.Ted
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 01:15 AM

I've heard both sides of the story--I was once in a writer's group with Mollie Katzen, then, a number of years later, spent a week working in the kitchen at a music camp with folks from the collective who were putting together their own cookbook, and had just discovered that they couldn't use their own name on it because Mollie had used it already--they were not happy campers--