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Tangra Fall: An Indo-Chinese Pop up Dinner

Who needs Thanksgiving when you have the chance to eat an awesome multi-course dinner prepared by two of our favorite teachers, Chitra Agrawal and Diana Kuan?

Tangra Fall is "a vegetarian, seasonal Indo-Chinese pop-up feast" taking place on Saturday, November 16 at the Court Tree Collective in Carroll Gardens, and, judging by the photo above, you don't want to miss it. 

Tickets went fast for the summer edition, so be sure to grab...

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The Masters of Social Gastronomy Take on Thanksgiving - November 18th!

Come on over to The Brooklyn Kitchen on Monday, November 18 for a primer on all things Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is the king of holidays: non-denominational, full of beer and good food, a purely American celebration. But where did did this turkey-centric feast come from? 

Sarah will school you on Thanksgiving's history, from the Pilgrims to pumpkin pie, and from President Lincoln to green bean casserole. We'll even visit some formerly...

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Anatomy of a Recipe - Kosambri: South Indian Carrot Salad

One of the most intimidating things about trying a new recipe is sourcing the sometimes hard-to-find ingredients, so we wanted to give you a cheat sheet on where to find them, based on our 7,000 years of experience tracking things down for classes. 

Let's start with Kosambri, a traditional South Indian carrot salad; the recipe comes from Chitra Agrawal's excellent blog, The ABCD's of Cooking. I've been lucky to have this...

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Learning Spaces in Brooklyn and Beyond

If there's at all a silver lining to the 10,000 layers of crappiness surrounding the closure of 3rd Ward, it's that there are still lots and lots of places to learn all sorts of things in Brooklyn and beyond. I started tweeting out a bunch this morning but thought it might be nice to compile them in one place. If you're a former 3rd Ward teacher or a space looking for instructors, be sure to check out our 3rd Ward Instructor Matchmaking...

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The 3rd Ward Instructor Matchmaking Service

With the crazy news of 3rd Ward shutting down, we figured that there's about a million of you 3rd Ward teachers out there who might be interested in picking up some new gigs. But hey, the Brainery can't do that many more classes, and we sure don't have a metal shop, so why not do something that helps everyone? Introducing the 3rd Ward Instructor Matchmaking Service!

Here's the plan:

1! Get as many former 3rd Ward instructors as possible...

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