Time for more Masters of Social Gastronomy recapping! Last month we covered sugar and artificial sweeteners.
In terms of artificial sweeteners, saccharin has been around since the beginning of time. These days it hangs around in products like Brooklyn's very own Sweet 'N Low.
But back in 1879, we lacked any artificial sweeteners at all. And we didn't find them by looking for them, either.
Ira Remsen and Constantin Fahlberg were labmates,...
Thanks to everyone who braved the beautiful weather to come out to last night's Masters of Social Gastronomy on sugar & sweeteners!
While Sarah will have you covered on NYC's sugar history, I thought I'd give you some further reading if your scientific curiosity was piqued. I'll be making follow-up posts on HFCS vs sugar and the hilarious history of artificial sweeteners, but figured you all might want to get a jump on it!
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Forgive the hard sell, but I can pretty much guarantee that you want learn how to turn plain old construction paper into something that looks like this:
Right?
Great! Then you should definitely take our marbled papers class with Jessica from Happy Go Crafty this week, on either Tuesday, April 30 or Thursday, May 2nd. It's the last time we'll have it on the calendar for a good long bit, so don't miss out!
For those of you around during the afternoon, we've got a few daytime classes coming up at our Prospect Heights location. Look out for more througout the summer as well!
Wednesday, May 1, 3pm
Everyone knows that one person who knows everyone. If you want to learn gardening, they have a contact. A job in finance, check. A voiceover artist to coach you in starting your new podcast? Easy. But how do your peers ...
Today I did a very adult thing and bought a membership to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which allowed me to spend the rest of the afternoon reading in the grass under a flowering cherry tree. Pretty much the best $50 I've spent in a long time.
It looked kinda like this:
When I wasn't hanging out under a tree, I was Instagramming a million pics of the annual bed of tulips, which happen to be planted according to their fifteen...
