On kitchens, and food, and learning to live life in the big city.
For he is a dinosaur.
And I a twenty-something white guy, who can’t imagine a world before cell phones.
From The University Bookman: On Brooklyn’s Side. many agrarian or regionalist (the two are often unfortunately conflated) polemics often neglect the notion of vocation, or rather they universalize the notion of vocation to mean only a back-to-the-land kind of reaction. . . Brooklyn fits even less the New York stereotype. My family, for example, has [...]
From the New York Times‘s Bushwick Journal: Art Galleries With Less of a Profit Motive Flourish in Brooklyn . There are drawbacks to putting an art gallery in one’s living room, among them having to keep the floors spotless and hide dirty socks. But there are definite benefits, too: no overhead, for one, which comes [...]
From the New York Times: Brooklyn’s New Culinary Movement. These Brooklynites, most in their 20s and 30s, are hand-making pickles, cheeses and chocolates the way others form bands and artists’ collectives. They have a sense of community and an appreciation for traditional methods and flavors. They also share an aesthetic that’s equal parts 19th and [...]