In Our Spring 2024 Issue

Dear Reader,

While you are used to hearing from me on this page as the voice of Edible Rhody, busy in the background, coordinating each issue of the magazine, is publisher John Schenck. In this letter, he and I are joining together as one voice to tell you about a special opportunity. There comes a time in life when retirement becomes more than a distant idea, but something one is actively ready to pursue—and for John, that time has come. Hence, we are looking for an enthusiastic food-loving individual with an entrepreneurial spirit to take the helm as publisher of Edible Rhody. If you have a passion for food and community, this is a unique and wonderful chance to put that passion into practice as a small business owner.

As publisher, you would also be joining 75+ fellow Edible magazine publishers who together share resources, offer advice and amplify the voices of farmers, chefs, fishers, vintners, brewers and food producers in local communities across North America. If this interests you, please email us at info@ediblerhody.com so we can tell you more about this ownership opportunity. We look forward to hearing from you!

Meanwhile, we’ll of course continue to bring you the vibrant stories, beautiful photos and delicious recipes you count on every season. This issue features profiles of such hardworking Rhode Islanders as Chef Glaister Knight, who has long been part of the Newport food scene. He can be found crafting delicious locally raised foods in The Living Room, the casual eatery located inside the Brenton Hotel on Newport’s waterfront.

Chef Knight is also going to be the featured guest chef in our spring cooking class on May 8, co-hosted with Gil’s Appliances at their demonstration kitchen in Bristol. Chef Knight loves sharing the vibrant flavors and celebrated cooking traditions of his native Jamaica, so please join us for a fun-filled evening while you elevate your cooking skills under the tutelage of this talented chef. We’ll enjoy wine pairings and send you home with fresh ideas on food and a well-provisioned goody bag, too. Visit EdibleRhody.com and click the grey Gil’s ad to sign up. (Classes routinely sell out, so don’t wait to reserve your spot!)

Please join us in a hearty welcome to our new advertisers in this issue, including Sweet & Salty Farm in Little Compton, Gray Goose Cookery in Watch Hill, Celebrated in Richmond, Aurelia at Castle Hill Inn in Newport and the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown. We thank them—as well as all our dedicated advertisers—for their support, and we hope you’ll do the same by frequenting these fabulous local businesses. Be sure to let them know you saw them in Edible Rhody!

We hope you enjoy everything spring has to offer—green sprouts emerging from the ground after a long winter, the arrival of favorite spring foods, the longer days—and all the food for thought you’ll find within these pages.

Dig in!

Genie McPherson Trevor and John Schenck