We're hosting a special class in conjunction with the awesome Brooklyn Contra group. Their next dance is Friday, April 26th, and you can sign up for a special Brainery group lesson starting at 7pm, before the official dance and lesson begin at 7:30pm. The $25 price gets you the extra 1/2 hour lesson and admission to the dance, which runs until 11pm.
Sign up here:...
Until yesterday, I didn't know what a crocus was, even though I've seen hundreds of them over the past few days. I'm kind of ashamed of that, so I thought it would be useful to learn the names of a few of the common spring flowers we're starting to see while out and about. Onward!
Daffodils
Okay, they're yellow and everywhere everywhere everywhere. You've probably seen a handful of them today just walking to the subway, and you'll know...
We have tons and tons of classes open for registration over the next week or so--instant learning gratification!
In Carroll Gardens
Serial Killers - Tuesday, April 2
Dreamcatchers: The Ultimate Summer Camp Craft - Tuesday, April 2
Bugs in the Kitchen: The Science of Cooking & Eating - Wednesday, April 3
In Prospect Heights
Playing with Power: Nintendo's Lasting Influence - Tuesday, April 2
Block Printing -...
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...
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...
