Given that they’re responsible for some of the best baked goods one of our editors has eaten in recent years–seriously, their blue cheese and pecan scones are life-changing–we’re really happy to hear that Brooklyn’s Ovenly has a cookbook due out this fall. Structured as a taste test, the book’s trailer also features a cameo by Emma Straub, which is excellent. You can watch the trailer at this link, or below.
Crappy summer jobs working the local Dairy Queen, part time gigs bussing tables, and horrible jobs working alongside top chefs: there are a million devastating and hilarious stories to be told by people that have been paid to serve food to other people. On October 15th at Housing Works, we present a dozen survivors from the food industry who survived the customer complaints and low pay to tell the tales.
I felt like a character out of a Dickens novel, slinking past the DuMont on Union, on my long walk back to Greenpoint with five dollars I could either spend on the subway, or an egg and cheese sandwich from the deli. Inside DuMont there were people eating, drinking, and laughing; I was on the outside, down to my last few bucks, waiting for the biggest freelance check I had ever received, the one that signaled it was finally safe […]
Sometimes I try and see if I can come up with a better term than “cheap” to describe the 36 beers that Will Gordon wrote up in his Deadspin piece, “36 Cheap American Beers, Ranked,” but I can’t. Even though a few of the beers on the list were at one time or another the biggest beers in America, long before the craft beer revolution and expensive growler-filling stations at Whole Foods became trendy, Schlitz, Pabst, and Budweiser have been […]
Via Brandon Stosuy comes the news that Bad Brains now sell an official hot sauce. “Punky Reggae party in every bottle,” the label says. Which, I suppose, you could put on your breakfast while drinking Will Oldham’s coffee blend to chase off a hangover from chugging Craig Finn’s beer the night before. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Jami Attenberg is the author of The Middlesteins — which is not only a compelling novel, but also a work that contains some of the most loving fictional descriptions of food in recent memory.