Ready to stop, collaborate, and listen to an idea for good carbs near you? RICE restaurant goes near and far to make eats of the same name- the finest Basmati rice from India (and better for you than a certain uncle’s we know). And cozy dishes, like yummy Butternut Squash Chowder, made with or without vitamin D from upstate dairy-all-star Ronnybrook Farm. Even closer, RICE doesn’t trash left-overs, but gives local Red Hook Community Farm in Brooklyn the extras to compost, that make organic food for the hood, and for RICE’s menu. If you’re swinging by Ikea this fall (for another light–brown bookshelf), RICE will be serving up its India-meets-Brooklyn fare at Red Hook’s Fourth Annual Harvest Festival this fall. Yikes, fall already? Too cold, too cold.

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