The 49-year-old with a curly mop of hair and slightly hippie sensibility was a computer programmer until just three years ago.
Cocktails That Grow on Trees
After a year of eating wild foods, winter brings the season to drink them.
Union Beer Distributors
It takes a fleet of forklifts to take one down, pass it around.
To Steep, Perchance to Dream
A bitters startup finds sweet success.
These Syrups Are Sweet, But Not Simple
In the year since, the brand has expanded from that homegrown kitchen experiment to a fully fledged, full-time operation.
Sometimes You Wanna Go Where Everybody Knows Your Name
From our current issue: Though their numbers have diminished over the decades, a few of the borough’s members-only social clubs still exist.
Introducing the Winners of the Great King Street Cocktail Competition
Comment | January 25, 2012 | By Gabrielle Langholtz | Photographs by Clay Williams
I had a blast Tuesday night judging the Great King Street Cocktail Competition. Faithful readers will remember we asked local drinks pros to submit seasonal cocktail recipes made with the new Scotch blend from Compass Box, designed precisely for such muddling and mixing.
The Weekly Giveaway: Win This Sweet Bodum Press (and Scope the City’s Best Butcher Shops)
8 comments so far | January 24, 2012 | By Rachel Wharton
Here’s how to enter to win: Tell us about your favorite seafood shop in the comments below before midnight on Friday. Be sure to register with a real email address so we can contact you later if you win. We’ll pick a reader based on what we think is the best response. Extra points for those who lead us to best-ofs we haven’t already tracked down for our online listings.
Book It: The Cookbook Conference Comes to the Roger Smith on Feb. 9
Comment | By Rachel Wharton | Photographs by Lou Rouse
On February 9 to 11, the Roger Smith Hotel in Midtown Manhattan will host the Cookbook Conference, a three day intensive series of panels and workshops for publishers, writers, editors, agents, researchers and readers. The goal isn’t just practical advice–how to pitch, position and test a cookbook, say–but also to think deeply about the history and future of a genre that most of those who read this site take very, very seriously. In our opinion, cookbooks cover as diverse a world as fiction, and can be just as transporting. (Not to mention handy at times.)
Buttermilk Channel Barkeeps Go Shaker to Shaker Tonight at Our Cocktail Competition
1 comment | January 23, 2012 | By Rachel Wharton
As promised, the final recipe from the five cocktails that made it through the preliminary round of judging for our Great King Street Cocktail Competition. You might recall we asked local professional mixologists to submit seasonal recipes made with the new Compass Box Scotch blend, which is designed for mixing.
This is the The Scotch Also Rises, from Richard Murphy at Buttermilk Channel. He’ll be competing against his colleague Anthony Sferra, who is making a drink called the Tinderbox; wish them both luck, as the winners are being crowned tonight as competitors make drinks in front of a live panel of judges. Stay tuned for the results right here.
Perhaps This Will Be Jay-Z’s Favorite New Cocktail?
Comment | January 20, 2012 | By Rachel Wharton
Here’s recipe four from the five cocktails that made it through the preliminary round of judging for our Great King Street Cocktail Competition; we asked local professional mixologists to submit seasonal recipes made with the new Compass Box Scotch blend, which is designed for mixing. This is the Tinderbox from Anthony Sferra at Buttermilk Channel. (You know, the Carroll Gardens restaurant where Jay-Z and Beyonce spent New Year’s Eve?)
Winter-Schminter: Warm Up with the Latin Food and Boogaloo Dance Party at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Comment | By Michaela Johnson
Just because winter has set in doesn’t mean all signs of life have disappeared from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden–in fact, nothing could be farther from the truth. Especially on Friday, February 10 from 8pm to midnight, when you can be transported to Latin America at LUSH, an evening of tastes and sounds (and dancing) in celebration of BBG’s collection of 6,000 (and counting) tropical orchids.
Change the Way We Eat… From the Comfort of Your Own Home
1 comment | January 19, 2012 | By Michaela Johnson
This Saturday, January 21st, from 10:30 am to 5:45 pm, make yourself a some lunch and get comfortable in front of your computer for TEDxManhattan’s “Changing the Way We Eat,” a live simulcast from the TimesCenter in Times Square. Twenty speakers who know more than a thing or two about the subject of sustainable eating and farming (including Mitchell Davis, the Executive Vice President of the James Beard Foundation, Michelle Hughes, the Director of GrowNYC’s New Farmer Development Project, and Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States) will explore a variety of issues, and talk about our choices and their consequences.
Been Wondering What to Make with Bittermens Orange Cream Citrate? This Drink’s the Answer
Comment | By Rachel Wharton
Here’s recipe three from the five cocktails that made it through the preliminary round of judging for our Great King Street Cocktail Competition; we asked local professional mixologists to submit seasonal recipes made with the new Compass Box Scotch blend, which is designed for mixing. This is the Artist’s Commission, from Aaron Cotler over at The Crown Inn, a brand new cocktail/beer/wine bar on Franklin Street in Crown Heights.