Brooklyn Boozehounds (Online)
Taught by Sarah Lohman
Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Endangered Eating was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast. It was a finalist for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship and winner of the Ohioana Library Book Prize for Nonfiction. Lohman’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. Lohman has lectured across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California
*This is an online class via Zoom. Download the Zoom app at zoom.us/download for the best experience. Link will be sent the day before the talk.*
The production of alcohol has long been tied to Brooklyn’s history, through commerce and controversy. Join Sarah for a booze-soaked journey through Brooklyn’s past and present, as she discusses the earliest applejack producers, Swill Milk, Whiskey Wars, and distilling’s triumphant return to Kings County.
Participants will get recipes for three easy hot cocktails and suggestions of local Brooklyn booze to make them with. Registration will also include a mini-gift guide that supports local distilleries.