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About Cheryl Chan

As Edible Brooklyn's online editorial assistant, Cheryl Chan writes about all things food related. Join her as she chronicles New York's multi-faceted culinary landscape, one bite at a time.

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Chozen Ice Cream’s Newest Flavor? Coffee Talk, Joining Ronne’s Rugelach and Matzoh Crunch Made with Help from Brooklyn Bakers

1 comment | November 10, 2011 | By

You likely don’t have to be Jewish to get the “certain inside jokes and elements” that go into the flavor profiles of Chozen ice cream, says co-founder Meredith Fisher, but an appreciation for Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm probably helps. Chozen is a small, family-run, certified Kosher ice-cream brand conceived by Fisher, her mother Ronne and her sister Isabelle Krishana one night as they sat around the dining table and paired vanilla ice cream with Ronne’s homemade rugalach eaten right from the freezer. That became their first flavor–cinnamon ice cream swirled with pieces of apricot, walnut, raisin and almond pastry–which launched in June 2010 along with Matzoh Crunch and Coconut Macaroon.

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Marcel Wijma of For The Love of Pie, a weekend vendor.

Scenes from Downtown’s New DeKalb Market, Made from Old Shipping Containers and Open Daily

Comment | August 12, 2011 | By | Photographs by Cheryl Chan

Made out of 22 recycled shipping containers, DeKalb Market opened July 23 and is Brooklyn’s newest outdoor market. Found at Fulton Mall (that’s 332 Flatbush Avenue Extension) it encompasses the Brooklyn zeitgeist not just with its cool use of upcycling, but its mix of local eateries, retail shops, an incubator farm and even an Internet radio station, BBox Radio. DeKalb Market is open year-round, seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

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