Tag: Brooklyn Kitchen

Local Holiday Gift Guide 2013

You haven’t gotten around to that gift thing, have you? With one week to go, shopping can seem like a frightening task. This year, we’re here to make your life a bit easier.

Vintage Brassieres, Anatomical Hearts and Other Cool Cookies for Valentine’s

Even if you don’t think The Anatomical Heart is the coolest cookie name ever–it makes us think of this excellent Edgar Allen Poe story–you have to be impressed with the intricacy of Amelia Coulter’s icing art. We like her cookies so much we made the ones she does of Brooklyn ironwork our Winter 2009 cover–when we wrote about SugarBuilt, her cookie company, for the first time. These Valentine’s-inspired versions are bizcochito flavored–anise, orange and cinnamon–and are topped with vanilla icing and individually wrapped with ribbon.

These Readers Really Know How to Drink, and One of Them Scored Passes to Good Spirits (Discounted Early Bird Ticks on Sale Now!)

A few weeks back we asked you to tell us what seasonally and locally inspired cocktails you’re drinking now, with the idea that the reader with the best answer would score two tickets to our winter Good Spirits, the next in a series of seasonal cocktail parties we host in tandem with Edible Manhattan. As usual your answers put our own drinking habits to shame.