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Achilles Heel – Surviving its Youth
Achilles Heel (180 West St) is near everything and nothing all at once. Anchored by the East River and bolstered by Manhattan Avenue, this coffee shop and bar plays with the […]
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Recipes Gone Wild: Roasted Corn Salad – What to do if you see a raccoon or have an adundance of corn…
There’s nothing much cuter than a fuzzy raccoon, even when it’s peeking out of a greasy dumpster in the summer heat. Case in point here. But if you have the […]
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Food Anxiety! Sicilian Sunday Supper #7 Recap (Photos & Recipes!)
Each first Sunday of the month we have a Sunday Supper at a new location in Greenpoint with a new chef and each first Sunday Supper of the month I […]
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SALAD TAWK: SELAMAT PAGI’S BALI URAP AKA PAPAYA SALAD
I know that I do a lot of salad shit tawking, but that is only when it is insultingly offered as a side to a burger. As if in my […]
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Recipes Gone Wild: TKO ‘Buttermilk’ Salad Dressing
I’ve had buttermilk on my mind ever since my friend sent me this clip of the now semi-famous rambunctious ruminant–‘Buttermilk‘, a Nigerian dwarf goat playing with her friends. ‘Buttermilk’ plays […]
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Veggie Burger Diaries: Greenpoint Heights (and Vagina Cult)
Not sure if I ever told you that I participated in a Mastermind Group. I’m not a big fan of self-help or group activities for that matter, but I was […]
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New Bar, Grand Ferry, Opens Tonight
If you have any relationship with The Richardson—albeit it a one-nighter, Grand Ferry (229 Kent Ave) will feel strangely, wonderfully, familiar. And that’s because co-founders Jon Derosa and Joel Lee Kulp—as well […]
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Recipes Gone Wild: A Summer Breakfast Porridge
Illustration by Libby VanderPloeg In a recent conversation with a friend, I was asked “have you heard about the latest rage in breakfast?” Well, no, I thought. When it comes […]
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Greenpoint Veggie Burger Diaries: Enid’s
Enid’s is the first restaurant in Greenpoint I noticed before I ever imagined I would live here or run Greenpointers. I remember thinking, “that place is cu-ute.” Despite that it never […]