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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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News

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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Upcoming Maker Events

Usually, our classes fall more on the crafty, low-tech side of things, but we have some ways to get your hands dirty with circuits and resistors that we wanted to let you know about.  

Special Event: Meet the Othermill

Friday, October 18, RSVP

Do you customize everything you own? Have you ever wanted to create your own circuits or stamps or molds? Have you heard people talking about desktop manufacturing and...

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Book Review

Book Recs from Our Teachers: October Edition

Every so often we spotlight some must-reads from our awesome teachers. Up this time: things that are a little creepy and crawly, just in time for Halloween. 

image Stories in Stone: New York 

by Doug Keister

Why you should read it: Stories in Stone New York is sort of like an AIA Guide to NYC for cemeteries. It's a cohesive almanac of cemeteries in the city with compact, but well-researched, descriptions for each. 

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