Monthly Archives: June 2010

Ahoy, Kelso Ho!

Make sure to get your summer whites bleached and press, slip on those beaten deck shoes, and hop aboard the S.S. Kelso. Kelso of Brooklyn will be hosting a beer and cheese pairing with Brewmaster Kelly Taylor aboard The Adirondack, the 80-foot Schooner, for a night of sophistication that hopefully degenerates into Kennedy-like debauchery. Though it [...]
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The Power of Pesto

The farmer’s market may be brimming with new wonders every week now (zucchini! broccolini!) but I’m no fool — the days of “more roots vegetables, really?” are not quite forgotten. So next year, for the first time I’ll stave off the winter doldrums by preserving my summer bounty. My fire escape is overflowing with basil, and [...]
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Blog of the Week: Food in Jars

So I’ve just arrived back from our little Wednesday farmer’s market at the south corner of Prospect Park (have I even mentioned how much I love that the farmer’s market is closer to my house than the bodega?), arms full of a huge heap of more cilantro than I know what to with, spring onions, [...]
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Five Ways to Ditch Your Break Up Blues

[This is our first guest post from the fantastic Heather Quinlan over at The Breakup Cookbook. Hopefully the first of many! -kb] Breakups are full of such wonderful moments–the public crying, the shameful Facebook stalking, the incessant what-ifs.  My personal favorites are the non-stop mood swings, where you don’t know how you’ll feel [...]
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Behold Meatopia

For as long as there have been sophisticated Neanderthals, beer and meat have gone together. Perhaps they didn’t have beer, but maybe some fermented pre-mead honey concoction. The point is that man say meat good, and on July 11 you can sample some of the the best that New York has to offer alongside a [...]
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Who Wants to Be a Reality TV Brewmaster?

For those of you who can’t design dresses, cook world class dishes or who can’t live with seven strangers picked to live in a house and have your lives taped to see what happens when people stop being polite and start being real, then there’s a new reality show that may make you famous…and a [...]
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The Food Film Festival

The genius of the Food Film Festival is that it’s a complete multi-sensory experience. I can watch the film Smokes & Ears, about a sandwich shop in Mississippi peddling pig ear sandwiches, at the same time I bite into one. And let me tell you, biting into a pig ear sandwich is a heck of [...]
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The Best Thing We Ate and Drank This Weekend

The Best Thing We Ate — Huevos Divorciados at Chiles & Chocolate: This weekend was a big one for our stomachs — in addition to all the usual weekend forging there was the Food Film Festival and the Unfancy Food Show. But we’ll get to those later. For now, I’ll tell you about the awesome [...]
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Tasting Notes: Coach Farm’s Fresh Goat

After last week’s accidental purchase of Coach Farm’s aged goat cheese, I couldn’t wait to try their fresh goat again. In the world of fresh goat cheese, freshness is key, so Coach automatically has an upper hand in their close proximity to New York City, a mere two hours away up the Hudson. But Coach sets [...]
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This Weekend: Cheese Eating, Food Film Fun and More!

Wow is there an expletive-load of food stuff going on this weekend. First off, there’s the last few days of the Food Film Festival, with events like the Food Truck Drive-In, the Grit’s Takedown and Sunday’s Burger N’ Beer Garden with a screening of Beer Wars. The weekend is also your last chance to cash in on [...]
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