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Places To Work That Aren't Your Kitchen Table

Coworking is a bit of a pet obsession of mine, for really no reason at all. There are lots and lots of neat new spaces popping up all around Brooklyn and the city -- a pretty inclusive list of which you can see here -- but we've been lucky enough to get the know the folks at a couple of them that are equally awesome. If you're in the market for some desk space that's not in your apartment or a coffee shop, we'd...

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November Events!

We have three one-night (and very different!) events coming up in November. Check out the course pages for registration info and all the other relevant details! 

*The Life of Che Guevara - Tuesday, 11/9, 7:30 p.m.

I bet you can guess the subject of this one - it'll be lecture and discussion style with Mickey Fuertes.

*Holiday Cooking Workshop  - Tuesday, 11/16, 7:45 p.m.

With presentations from Emily Beebe of The...

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Holiday Cooking Wrap Up

Huge, huge thanks to our awesome presenters at last night's workshop! 

First, we totally stuffed ourselves on 50 million varieties of savory tarts from Emily Beebe. Seriously, there were so many, and they were so good, like this beet and goat cheese variety.  If I had to choose one though, it would be the caldo verde - a take on Portuguese kale soup - with plenty of sausage, potatoes, and kale. Amazing.  Over at The Wooden...

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Gift Certificates

In case you missed that big old "gift certificate" button over on the sidebar, we're really excited to have gift certificates available! Just click on the button below and Paypal will take care the rest, including sending a nice little email to the person you're buying it for. They can use it for any class we offer, anytime they want. 

The basics:

* $5 minimum
* no expiration (but no refunds either)
* put it...

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More From This Semester

More random knowledge gleaned during the last couple weeks of classes:

Beekeeping - First week we covered the anatomy of bees and the social structure of the hive. In the process, we learned approximately 65 million interesting things, but I'll keep it to just a couple of my favorite facts. You can gather way more from Tim at Borough Bees, his blog.

*In the summer, workers (the sterile females who, as you can probably imagine, do all...

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