Every month, we do a free live food lecture up in Williamsburg with our Very Good Friend Sarah Lohman, author of the blog Four Pounds Flour. (The next one's Tuesday, March 26, and you should go.) It's called Masters of Social Gastronomy and Sarah covers the history side of the topic while Soma tackles the science. There's lots of beer and some samples and a generally good time. In the past year or so, we've covered everything from fake meat to...

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New York has practically everything I need to research our monthly Masters of Social Gastronomy lectures. Weird meat? Chinatown sells alligator. Fake meat? Chinatown sells vegetarian alligator. Sweeteners? Sweet n' Low is made a half-mile from my house.

But researching this month's Masters of Social Gastronomy has put on full display a culinary weak point of NYC: cannabis edibles.

Unlike our friends to the west, where an...

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We're incredibly psyched to receive a grant from the NYC Chapter of The Awesome Foundation! If you haven't heard of them, The Awesome Foundation is "an ever-growing, worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of awesomeness in the universe." We're sure you agree that's a pretty awesome mission.

We'll be putting the $1,000 toward making our Prospect Heights backyard, you guessed it, way more awesome. That'll allow...

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At this month's Masters of Social Gastronomy, we'll look at the culinary world's experiments with illicit substances. 

Let's get high with the Victorians! From patent medicines to absinthe, Coca-Cola to laughing gas, we'll look at all the forms of socially acceptable substance abuse during the 19th century.

Later, we'll fast-forward to modern-day America, where quasi-legal marijuana has spawned an industry of cannabis edibles. We'll survey...

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Hey Prospect Heights (and all of NYC), we're super excited about this week's class on Bach taught by Scott Ordway. It's just in time for you to attend a performane of Bach's music at the NY Phil on Friday! Sign up! 

This quick course will provide students with an overview of the transcendent vocal and instrumental music of Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach. It's designed for listeners, so we'll be looking at...

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