We're partnering with the awesome local batik studio, Hiho Batik, to bring you lots of hands-on classes all fall. All classes take place in their lovely Park Slope store, and you'll learn the art of batik, a wax-resist dyeing technique, and create your own custom work to take home. Check out this post for more information on the batik process.
This weekend is the 13th annual Open House New York, a wonderful event where some of New York City's best-known (or, sometimes secretive!) architectural spaces open their doors for exploration. Some locations require visitors to RSVP in advance for tours, and while those spots go quickly, there are lots of wonderful places to visit throughout the weekend with open access. We wanted to highlight a few of our favorite spots that we've been able...
On Tuesday, October 20, the Masters of Social Gastronomy will embrace the Halloween spirit by taking on foods that go bump in the night. Learn all about the fascinating connection between monster myths and culinary history, a rye fungus that caused mass hallucinations (and may have led to the Salem Witch Trials!), and famous cannibals from around the world.
This fall, our friends at Turnstile Tours are offering a series of free tours of the Essex Street Market. I signed up for the inaugural tour last week and was lucky enough to spend an hour meeting market vendors, hearing their stories, and eating my way though the historic market, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.
We met a wide variety of vendors at the market; they owned everything from Mexican restaurants to fish...
This post is about one of the prints available from Vintage Visualizations, a new Brainery-affiliated venture. For more info, check out our intro post here!
American whaling peaked in 1858, but it still found a place on this 1880 fisheries chart. That year, though whaling was still a lucrative business in Massachusetts, a paltry $408 worth of whaling was done in North Carolina.
The chart also includes a neat world...
