Monthly Archives: February 2010

this week on twitter

Elderly Rehobeth woman on @DogfishBeer brewpub "Avoid the bathrooms. But the food is excellent". Both were excellent. And they had beer too! # Scrapple: Made from the best stuff on earth! # Try Brooklyn's Best Tacos! Californian approved http://bk.ly/bAh # Fledgling Wine is Twitter's winemaking fundraiser fledglingwine.com. Good work but where's Fledgling Beer? # The steps of the prospect [...]
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Tonight! FeBREWary Harpoon Blast in Park Slope

Harpoon will be at the Park Slope Ale House all night tonight with limited supplies of Harpoon 100 Barrel Series Island Creek Oyster Stout and Leviathan Imperial Red. (Note: The oysters used for the oyster stout were from Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, MA, near my hometown, and they’re the best oysters I’ve ever had.) [...]
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Get Your Homebrew Brewed by Chatham Brewing: March 6th

If you’ve got a kegged brew that’s prize-worthy or a batch bubbling that’s expected to come out delicious, then mark your calendars for March 6th. Dive Bar in Manhattan will be holding a homebrew competition will get the winning recipe brewed by Chatham Brewing, officially registered in New York State, and sold at Dive Bar [...]
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New wine bar from Mimi’s Hummus

To all you Ditmas Park folks: quit hogging all the borough’s best food and drink. The newest addition to Cortelyou Road’s veritable restaurant row (and the Mimi’s Hummus franchise), is The Castello Plan, a new wine bar from the owner of Mimi’s Hummus and the new aptly named Market. The spot is named for [...]
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Weekly Bklyn Food and Drink Review

Our favorite’s this week from the world wide web. Monday: How Porchetta fed the troops http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2010/02/how_porchetta_fed_the_troops_i.html? Tuesday: Robots that cook at the Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/dining/24robots.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Wednesday: The first of two New York Times articles on craft beer this week. Belgian Golden Ales ranked – Brooklyn Local 1 finishes 9th. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/dining/reviews/24wine.html?pagewanted=1&hp Thursday: Paris Hilton’s commercials for microbrewed Brazilian beer investigated for being too…sexy? http://adage.com/globalnews/article?article_id=142291 Friday: Got Beer? [...]
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2 for 1 Beers For the Rest of February

Some people call me frugal, and the rest just call me cheap. But someday they’ll be jealous when I’m swimming in a money-filled pool (working on filling the kiddie pool now). So obviously I’ll be taking Colador Cafe up on its offer for 2 for 1 beers, all the time, for the rest of February! [...]
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Easy-Bake Over Inventor Dies at 83

For those of you who haven’t heard, Ronald Howes, the inventor of the beloved Easy-Bake Oven, apparently  died last Tuesday at 83. Howes actually engineered a number of inventions — from defense department weaponry to nontoxic Play-Doh and glow-in-the-dark compounds — but he is most fondly remembered for his little light-bulb lit oven that is [...]
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Belgium, Care Of Brooklyn

A one way ticket to Antwerp, Belgium today would cost you at least $1207 and you’d get there tomorrow. But the guys at Twelve Percent want to make it easier for you. They want to have you sipping Flanders Reds tonight. Twelve Percent, based in Greenpoint, is an importer of fine Belgian ales. Looking for a [...]
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140-year-old hot dog found in Coney Island! IT’S A HOAX!!

Update: Apparently this whole thing was an elaborate hoax by folks at the Coney Island History Museum trying to promote their museum. Apparently they also didn’t really believe anyone would believe it. I guess we’re all just a bunch of schmucks. Most people like a well-aged wine, but this week’s new food trend is apparently aged [...]
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DIY Kitchen: (Faux) Ricotta Made Easy

Here’s the plan: so every Thursday I’ll explain simple DIY steps for stuff you’d usually just buy in the store. Sound good? First up: Faux Ricotta. Because “real” ricotta is technically made from the whey left over when you make a rennet cheese, this actually classifies as the Indian cheese paneer. But who are we to [...]
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