Monthly Archives: September 2010

Italian with Lauren: Aperitivo

One of my favorite local spots for casual Italian fare is Aperitivo Cafe in Park Slope. There are many reasons why I love this place, but initially it was a relationship of convenience — until a few months ago I lived less than two blocks away. Now I live much farther [...]
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Pour Out A Bud Day!

Happy Pour Out a Bud Day to all! As announced last week, Bklyn Foodie is hosting the first annual Pour Out a Bud Day today, September 29, in retaliation to Budweiser’s campaign to give out 500,000 free six to 12 ounce samples of Bud at bars as part of their National Happy Hour. It’s all part [...]
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Cook the Book: Chilaquiles

[Editor's Note: Cook the Book is a new weekly feature, written by your truly. Each week, I'll whip up a recipe out of my quietly growing collection of cookbooks.] Chilaquiles are a favorite weekend breakfast around our house. Sometimes, if we’re feeling ambitious and happen to have a bag of stale tortilla chips around, even [...]
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Help Boswyck Farms

Here at bklyn foodie, we are big fans of Boswyck Farms. I had a chance to interview Lee Mandell — who runs a hydroponic farm out of his Bushwick loft — a few months back for amNew York. It is a very cool place. The folks at the farm have started at Kickstarter to help keep [...]
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The Best Thing We Ate and Drank This Weekend

The Best Thing We Drank — 50/50 Troegs Porter and Sixpoint Pumpkin Brewester: For Craft Beer Week this weekend, our neighborhood stand-by, the Double Windsor, hosted a Troegs-Sixpoint face-off, matching similar beers from each brewery and encouraging those imbibing to try each. As part of this, they had a special beer [...]
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The New BklynFoodie.com

Bklyn Foodie is growing. This is something we’re obviously excited about, but at the same time is difficult to keep up with while working full time. So in the next few weeks, you’ll be noticing some changes around the site. First off, we’re adding new contributors, to help us deliver more fresh and original content to [...]
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This Weekend: Sixpoint, Atlantic Antic Pub Crawl, Sycamore Pig Roast

It’s officially fall, meaning it’s time to roast an entire pig and drink lots of beer. Sycamore in Ditmas Park will spend this Sunday from 2-8pm doing just that, with lots of delicious grub. Plates are $25 with $5 pints of Lagunitas. Though advanced tickets are sold out, there are a limited number of tickets [...]
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Oompa!

At this moment, my hope is that your liver is resting. If not, the next two weeks may be too much for him. Oktoberfest, the Americanized version at least, happens to fall just around NY Craft Beer Week this year. And with that, you’ve got that much more to schedule into your BlackBerry. Don’t let this [...]
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Brooklyn Paper Round-Up

This week, I find out the rumors that Chipotle is coming to the Slope are bogus, in my fortnightly gossip column.
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Bklyn Weekly

Our favorites this week from the World Wide Web. Monday: Activists’ Beef with Halal [New York Post] Tuesday: Beer: The Good, The Bad and The Pumpkin [The Washington Post] Wednesday: Genetically Modified Salmon [CNN Eatocracy] Thursday: Q&A with Ben Granger of Bierkraft [Metromix] Friday: Food Matters Cookbook Interview with Mark Bittman [Civil Eats]
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