This summer, we're excited to be partnering with the Brooklyn Historical Society for a look at the local side of everyone's favorite foods: pizza and ice cream.
On Thursday, August 4, join us for Brooklyn Pizza: The Search for Authenticity. A panel of pizza-makers moderated by historian Scott Wiener will explore that most vital New York question: Who makes the most authentic pizza in the city?
On Thursday, July 28...
On February 25, MSG will take on the history and science of imitation ingredients at the brand-new Museum of Food and Drink!
Sarah will explore the history of artificial food, covering medieval "meat pitchers" and the early 20th-century chemists known as the "Poison Squad" who tested the safety of food additives by ingesting them in large quantities. Soma will dig into the science behind artificial flavorings, from what...
Wontons & Dumplings! - Wednesday, October 8
MYSTERIOUS BEAST MONSTERS! - Thursday, October 9
Baking Bread: A Look at Colonial Oven Archaeology - Friday, October 10
Tree Identification Walk in Fort Greene - Saturday, October 11
Next Tuesday we're hosting a Masters of Social Gastronomy on taboo foods. We'll be talking about everything from cannibalism to, well, things like what you're about to read. It's free, and full of beer, so you might as well RSVP now.
Y'know how you meet vegetarians who eat fish, and you throw a little tantrum about how Fish Are People Too and That's Not Vegetarianism and everyone just shrugs? And then some people won't eat honey...
Next Tuesday we're hosting a Masters of Social Gastronomy on taboo foods. We'll be talking about everything from cannibalism to, well, things like what you're about to read. It's free, and full of beer, so you might as well RSVP now.
Pythagoras! The very name should strike theorems into your heart. a2 + b2 = c2, to be exact.
Pythagoras wasn't just some middle school math teacher hanging out in Greece, though. Mathematics was so central...
