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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...
Starting next week, we’ve got two awesome classes coming up with Scott Ordway: The Social History of Classical Music and The Cultural Cold War. Scott’s a composer and doctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania; he really knows his stuff, and we're pretty psyched to have him teaching at the Brainery.
Both classes start next Monday, December 10th, and you should sign up now!
Want to take a class soon? Check out what's coming up in the next week or so:
Revolutionary Riffs - the aftermath of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions
It's All Greek to Me: An Introduction to Greek Mythology - Zeus lips sink ships
Early Hollywood Censorship: The Rise & Fall of the Production Code - the movieland battle pitting conservative forces against everything fun
How to Host a Food Swap - join the BK...
Our friend Reema showed these great commercials in last night's NYC subway class. They were produced by the MTA itself in 1989, with the intent of getting New Yorkers back on the trains and "heralding the revitalization of the system." The resulting commercials are a strange, not-super-positive but charming and incredibly honest look at the subway system.
You should spend 3 minutes watching them, below, or over on the MTA's Youtube page....
