To celebrate its one year anniversary, this month's Masters of Social Gastronomy takes on its namesake: monosodium glutamate (MSG)! Savory spice or fatal flavor?
Sarah Lohman of Four Pounds Flour will track MSG back to its source in traditional Japanese food, showing how time and money turned an innocuous plant into the darling of mass production
Soma will take on modern-day interpretations of MSG, from its role...
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2013 UPDATE: We ended up not doing coworking after all. Sorry, folks!
Before we really and truly roll out coworking at our new place in Prospect Heights this February, join us in January for some drop-in days. Our first one will be on Friday, January 18 as part of Worldwide Jellyweek.
If you're a freelancer, or just happen to have the day off and want to get some work done outside the house and amongst other awesome people, we'd love to...
We're happy to report that we have walls and floors and ceilings at the new space in Prospect Heights. And though there's still lots of furniture to buy things to paint, we'll be hosting some classes there starting in mid-January, with daytime coworking coming very shortly thereafter.
Below is the still-very-raw backyard, just waiting for some TLC this spring. We can't wait!
And if you're wondering exactly where the new space is,...
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I made an absolutely awesome recipe from the blog A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn today (thanks to Four Pounds Flour for the link!). It's for "frozen malted milk cookies," and it's really a cake, not cookies, but no matter cause it tastes amazing.
In order to make the cake, I picked up some malted milk powder (above) for the very first time. Though I (rightfully) love malted milk balls, I'd never really thought about what...
We're proud to announce a fun new Brainery project called Dabbler.
Getting into a new hobby is great and rewarding and blah blah blah, but it's apparently hard enough that we all rarely do it. No need to fret, though, Dabbler to the rescue.
Every month we'll deliver a newsletter to your inbox introducing you to a fun new hobby, skill or interest: links, videos, how-to's, shopping lists, and plenty of notes to get you started. Whether it's...
