tags: brooklyn: stories and blogs
brooklyn: stories and blogs
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Won’t Work for Food
Horror stories of the country’s largest member-owned cooperative grocery store.
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From Scarface to Key Lime Pie
A culinary tour of seedy-but-cool Red Hook, Brooklyn
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How to Make the Ultimate Bagel
It’s in the boiling and the malt.
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What to Eat at the Ballpark
Chowhound picks for the best food and drink at games across the country.
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The Year in Food 2008
What we ate, what the candidates ate, what the Olympians ate.
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Summer 2008 Gift Guide
Please dads, grads, brides, and more.
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Why Don’t More Beer Bottles Have Twist-Off Caps?
Oxygen is the enemy.
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Furniture for the Food
Great dining room tables.
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Sex, Drugs, and Béchamel
A new cookbook features recipes from indie rockers.
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The Rise of the Salt Tooth
The craze for salted sweets.
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Fork on the Left, Knife on the Floor
Designers reinvent the table setting.
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100 Pounds of Leftovers
A meat-and-potatoes guy tries to save money by buying an entire side of beef.
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Something More Than Crappy Pilsner
While there is no brand of American pilsner distributed nationally, several excellent examples have popped up on the micro and regional levels.
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Masters of the Bean
Today’s coffee connoisseurs want to be on a first-name basis with their roaster. They want to know not only which country the beans came from but which region, or even which “estate.” They obsess over freshness and brew time and water temperature.
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A Tale of Two Chowhounds
The salesman had had quite enough of my waffling between two overcoats. Howard Turkell, 60-ish and a garment center veteran, was trying to be polite with the weirdo hipster kid who’d turned up at his third-floor shop that fateful morning, but patience had



