Novelist Stephanie Danler’s favorite depiction of food in literature comes from the Seamus Heaney poem “Oysters,” which begins: Our shells clacked on the plates. My tongue was a filling estuary, […]
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Toro Ironworks adds new dishes to its Spring Menu
Toro Ironworks is ringing in the spring with some additions to the menu, which will offer a new draw for vegetarians and carnivores alike. The Taqueria, whose customers had asked for […]
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Italian Pizza & Paninis Just Around The Corner
“Sotto casa” is an Italian idiom that translates roughly to something like, “below the house” or “on your doorstep”; in English the closest phrase we have might be something like […]
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NYC Hot Sauce Expo Crowns a New Guinness World Record Holder
Steve Seabury, Lisa Seabury and Jimmy Carbone host the annual NYC Hot Sauce Expo with the city’s most insane pepperheads. But not every year plays host to a Guinness World […]
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Add Salchipapas at Archestratus to Your Greenpoint Bucket List
Perhaps the only word more fun to say than Archestratus, the cookbook store that creates community and serves Sicilian sweets, is Salchipapas. Not just the name of street food common […]
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Gastronaut: Kielbasa
Taste, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the new Greenpointers food series Gastronaut. Its continuing mission: to explore strange, new ingredients; to seek out new flavors and new […]
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Get ready for summer at JUS by Julie
According to a pretty credible source, sober is the new drunk. And fresh juices are the new craft cocktails. A new generation of New Yorkers is opting for juice crawls […]
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Weekend Music: Greasy Migas Are the Best Migas (4/29 – 5/1)
It’s music and food pairings at Weekend Music today. Where to find the best local wursts, feijoada, and gumbo, all with live bands to accompany the food. Plus country rock, funk, […]
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Cannabis Cooking With A Razor, A Shiny Knife at The Brooklyn Kitchen
When our intrepid group of cannabis cooks walks into the room, we think maybe, just maybe (just for a moment, from afar), that the green spread out across the tables is the real […]
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A Gluten-Free Popup Makes Celiac Dining Easy
Kings County Supper for Queens and Paupers is a new gluten-free popup run by Molly Franklin, a celiac chef. Franklin had been doing a five-month popup at Cake Shop in the Lower East […]