December
17
2012
If your cheese drawer looks anything like ours, it’s stuffed full with half-opened slabs of Prairie Breeze, a gently wrapped (and re-wrapped) round of Mt. Tam and the very last scrapings of a jar of Rare Bird preserves. We understand. We love cheese too. And now you can give the gift of dairy to your … Read more
October
22
2009
On Being a Cookoff judge. It's not easy.
I’ve judged quite a few cookoffs in the past few years. Casseroles, Cupcakes, Pie (twice!), the Bodega Challenge, Chili. All have been fun, inspiring, difficult and often hell the next day on the gastro-intestinal system. I mean our bodies aren’t used to eating that kind of variety of one food all at once! It may … Read more
May
11
2009
Notes from a Former Cupcake Bake-off Winner
The only preface I’ll give is that I wrote this on my lunch break. So excuse the wild liberties I’ve taken with grammar and pretend that I didn’t receive my college degree (which in all fairness, as Harry can attest, is round not square) in Journalism. There are a lot of cooking contests in Brooklyn. … Read more
Photo courtesy of Knoxnews.com Ted Allen was asked by the Knoxville News to recommend one place to see if they visited Brooklyn, and here was his response: “One really cool place is a great independently owned culinary store called the Brooklyn Kitchen. It’s owned by a young couple whose cooking classes have become very popular … Read more
