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Full Calendar of Events
Brooklyn Food Stories
Brooklyn Food Stories is a public programming series on food culture in Brooklyn, which will examine the role of food past and present in our borough. This series will feature tastings, lectures, tours and more.
September
Thursday, September 1
Timeline of Taste with Historic Gastronomist Sarah Lohman
7:00 p.m.
Have you ever noticed that the names of Greenpoint's streets bring to mind exotic locales? From Java to India, these Brooklyn roadways took their names from the distant countries that brought spices from the Far East to America's shores. Once a major port for trading ships, Greenpoint can be used as a guidebook to explore the history of American food through flavor. When did American palates favor one spice over another and why? When did ships stop bringing mace and start carrying vanilla beans? In A Timeline of Taste Sarah Lohman will take you on a journey from 1800-1950, making a pit stop every fifty years to explore the tastes of a particular time. You'll get to smell and sample the spices, fruits, extracts, and other ingredients that defined the flavors of each time period. From rosewater to vanilla, nutmeg to cinnamon, citron to reddi-whip, Sarah Lohman will discuss why these flavors were popular and how they were used in day- to-day cooking. This event is part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series. Advanced ticket purchase recommended as the event will fill up. Tickets: $8 BHS members/$10 non-members. Purchase your ticket here.
Sarah Lohman has more than a decade of museum experience with a specific focus on culinary history. Lohman is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where she began working in a museum at the age of 16, cooking historic food over a wood-burning stove. She graduated with a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2005. For her undergraduate thesis, she opened a temporary restaurant/installation that reinterpreted food of the Colonial era for a modern audience.
Fridays and Saturdays, September 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, and 30
Eat Like a Local Tour: Carroll Gardens
2:00-5:30 p.m.
As part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series, join Urban Oyster for a strolling lunch through one of Brooklyn's premiere culinary neighborhoods, Carroll Gardens. This tour will include both old school haunts and new culinary entrepreneurs in an exciting menu of traditional flavors and daring dishes. We'll stop at Italian and Middle Eastern shops that have long been the staple of the neighborhood and explore the growing scene of cafes and restaurants specializing in artisanal foods. As we enjoy their delicacies, we'll learn about the neighborhood's rich history and changing character from local business owners and residents themselves. Tickets: $49 (10% off for BHS members -- call 718.222.4111 for discount). Advance ticket purchase is required. Go to www.urbanoyster.com or call 347.618.8687 to book public or private tours.
Saturdays, September 3, 10, 17 and 24
Immigrant Foodways Tour
11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
As part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series, join Urban Oyster for this Immigrant Foodways Tour. Based on oral histories with residents and business owners in East Williamsburg, this tour explores the history of Brooklyn's "Avenue of Puerto Rico" - once the heart of a Jewish community - and takes an in-depth look at the Moore Street Market, built in 1941 to mark the end of the pushcart era. Today the market is a centerpiece of the Spanish-speaking community. By the end of the tour, you'll be equipped with new knowledge about Latin American ingredients and a booklet of traditional recipes to help you recreate the tastes and smells of the market in your own home. This tour takes place every Saturday. Tickets: $39 (10% off for BHS members-- call 718.222.4111 for discount). Advance ticket purchase is required. Go to www.urbanoyster.com or call 347.618.8687 to book public or private tours.
Thursday, September 15
Rewriting Recipes with Historic Gastronomist Sarah Lohman
7:00 p.m.
Perhaps you found a box of ancient handwritten recipes cards at the Brooklyn Flea. Maybe, you have your grandmother's cookbook, gathering dust on the shelf. Or perhaps you simply enjoy browsing Google books to page through cookbooks from 100 years ago. Why aren't you cooking from these recipes? These treasures from the past are valuable resources to draw inspiration for a contemporary kitchen. Sarah Lohman is here to help you negotiate the difficulties of translating historic recipes. In Rewriting Recipes, she'll use BHS’s historic Lefferts Family cookbook to teach how to interpret historic recipes. Lohman will unveil tricks to modernize these recipes for today's kitchen: how to interpret amounts, flesh out directions, and find comparable ingredients. Most importantly, she’ll show how to pull inspiration from these recipes to create unique contemporary dishes. Feel free to bring your own vintage and historical recipes to share. This event is part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series. Advanced ticket purchase recommended as the event will fill up. Tickets: $8 BHS members/$10 non-members. Purchase your ticket here.
Sarah Lohman has more than a decade of museum experience with a specific focus on culinary history. Lohman is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where she began working in a museum at the age of 16, cooking historic food over a wood-burning stove. She graduated with a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2005. For her undergraduate thesis, she opened a temporary restaurant/installation that reinterpreted food of the Colonial era for a modern audience.
Wednesday, September 21
Brooklyn Bounty Cocktail Party and the First Brooklyn Food Recognition Awards
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Bounty Cocktail Party and the First Brooklyn Food Recognition Awards will include tastings of food and drink from Brooklyn growers, chefs and purveyors; historic cocktails in our beautiful library; storytelling by local people from neighborhoods far and wide across Brooklyn; viewings of historical and new maps and materials related to local food and agriculture; a creative silent auction of unique Brooklyn prizes and experiences; and music by The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn. All funds raised at Brooklyn Bounty will be used to support BHS's nationally-recognized education programs. Purchase your ticket here.
Tuesday, September 27
Brooklyn Food Stories: Farms, Markets, and Shops that have Shaped Brooklyn Appetites and Communities
7:00 p.m.
Hear the stories behind Brooklyn farms, markets, and shops, and how their individual efforts have shaped neighborhoods and Brooklynites' appetites over time. Based on recorded interviews and historical research that Urban Oyster has conducted for its Brooklyn-based tours, this presentation will include stories about Wallabout Market, Moore Street Market, shops in Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill, farmers currently growing food in Brooklyn, and more. David Naczycz and Cindy VandenBosch, co-founders of Urban Oyster, will be the presenters. This event is part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series. Advanced ticket purchase recommended as the event will fill up. Complimentary Brooklyn Brewery beer or bottled water included with ticket price. Tickets: $8 BHS members/$10 non-members. Purchase your ticket here.
October
Fridays and Saturdays, October 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29
Eat Like a Local Tour: Carroll Gardens
2:00-5:30 p.m.
As part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series, join Urban Oyster for a strolling lunch through one of Brooklyn's premiere culinary neighborhoods, Carroll Gardens. This tour will include both old school haunts and new culinary entrepreneurs in an exciting menu of traditional flavors and daring dishes. We'll stop at Italian and Middle Eastern shops that have long been the staple of the neighborhood and explore the growing scene of cafes and restaurants specializing in artisanal foods. As we enjoy their delicacies, we'll learn about the neighborhood's rich history and changing character from local business owners and residents themselves. Tickets: $49 (10% off for BHS members -- call 718.222.4111 for discount). Advance ticket purchase is required. Go to www.urbanoyster.com or call 347.618.8687 to book public or private tours.
Saturdays, October 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29
Immigrant Foodways Tour
2:00 p.m.
As part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series, join Urban Oyster for this Immigrant Foodways Tour. Based on oral histories with residents and business owners in East Williamsburg, this tour explores the history of Brooklyn's "Avenue of Puerto Rico" - once the heart of a Jewish community - and takes an in-depth look at the Moore Street Market, built in 1941 to mark the end of the pushcart era. Today the market is a centerpiece of the Spanish-speaking community. By the end of the tour, you'll be equipped with new knowledge about Latin American ingredients and a booklet of traditional recipes to help you recreate the tastes and smells of the market in your own home. This tour takes place every Saturday. Tickets: $39 (10% off for BHS members-- call 718-222-4111 for discount code). Advance ticket purchase is required. Go to www.urbanoyster.com or call 347.618.8687 to book public or private tours.
Wednesday, October 5
Tour of Eagle Street Rooftop Farm
7:00 p.m.
As part of BHS's fall program series Brooklyn Food Stories, join us for a tour of Eagle Street Rooftop Farm that includes a lesson on urban farming and green roofs, seasonal planting, harvest and composting–as well as a visit to see the bees, chickens and rabbits! Tickets $8 BHS members/$10 non-members. Purchase your ticket here.
Sunday, October 9
Volunteer Day at Eagle Street Rooftop Farm
2:00-4:00 p.m.
As part of our fall program series Brooklyn Food Stories, BHS will lead a volunteer day at the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Greenpoint. Join us as we help weed, dig, harvest and plow. The farm is open to the public from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. on Sundays from April through November. Visitors are welcome to shop at our fresh-picked-produce market; help plant, compost and do farm chores; or simply visit the nation's first organic greenroof-turned-vegetable farm and admire the view.
Thurday, October 13
The Nineteenth-Century Kitchen with Harry Rosenblum
7:00 p.m.
As part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series, join us on October 13 as Harry Rosenblum explores the everyday lifestyle of nineteenth-century Brooklynites through the exploration of their kitchen tools. This presentation will include a selection of kitchenware and cookbooks from Harry Rosenblum's collection and a discussion of the history of kitchen tool patenting and manufacturing in America. Harry Rosenblum and his wife Taylor Erkkinen own the Brooklyn Kitchen, a cookware shop that specializes in the finest new and vintage kitchenware and a cooking school that hosts thirty to forty cooking classes a month. Harry has been involved in antiques and memorabilia his whole life. The son of a collector, he grew up around fire fighting antiques, antique vehicles, a vast record collection and more. His own collecting has moved toward kitchenware and out-of-print cookbooks, with a specific interest in the obsolete and patent variations. This program is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, October 19
Inner Circle Event: Sam Sifton, Restaurant Critic for The New York Times
6:30 p.m.
This event for Inner Circle members is part of BHS’s fall series, Brooklyn Food Stories, public program focused on food culture in Brooklyn, which examines the role of food past and present in our borough. Please join us for a private conversation with Sam Sifton, restaurant critic for The New York Times. Inner Circle events, a benefit for higher-level BHS members, offer exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to BHS's exhibits, collections and programs. Want to become part of the Inner Circle? Contact BHS’s membership coordinator Taina Sanon today, 718.222.4111 x246.? Or go online to join BHS as an Advocate Member or higher. This event will take place in BHS’s Othmer Library. Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, October 20
The Big Apple: Historic Cocktails with Regional Apple Alcohols
7:00 p.m.
Apple cider, apple brandy, and applejack are complex alcohols that are infinitely mixable. We're going inspire you to add them to your liquor cabinets with a night of nineteenth-century cocktails. The evening will begin with a cup of Apple Punch, which features slices of crisp New York apples steeped in wine. While sipping drinks, guests will hear a short talk on the history of apple alcohol in New York. Afterward, participants will learn how to make three historic apple cocktails: the refreshing, spicy Jersey Cocktail; the warm and comforting Apple Toddy; and the sweet, meringue-like Tiger's Milk Punch. These drinks will feature local apple alcohols made from traditional recipes. Participants will work with educators in small groups, learning about the history of each drink as they imbibe their handmade cocktails. Additionally, local apple alcohol producers will be on hand to talk about their products and the state of the apple industry today. This event is part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series. Advanced ticket purchase recommended as the event will fill up. Ticket: $30 BHS members/$40 non-members. Purchase your ticket here.
This event is part of Glynwood's Cider Week, which seeks to cultivate an appreciation for hard cider. Glynwood preserves apple orchards in the Hudson Valley by promoting the production of hard cider and apple spirits. Learn more at www.glynwood.org.
Sarah Lohman has more than a decade of museum experience with a specific focus on culinary history. Lohman is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where she began working in a museum at the age of 16, cooking historic food over a wood-burning stove. She graduated with a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2005. For her undergraduate thesis, she opened a temporary restaurant/installation that reinterpreted food of the Colonial era for a modern audience.
Thursday, October 27
Film Screening: Vanishing of the Bees
7:00 p.m.
As part of our fall program series Brooklyn Food Stories, BHS, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Bridge CSA, will present a film screening of Vanishing of the Bees. This 2009 documentary explores the phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD) and its global economic and ecological impact. Join us after the screening for an exploration of the local implications of the CCD phenomenon, led by the CSA's core members and an NYC beekeeper. This event is co-sponsored by Pursue: Action for a Just World – a project of American Jewish World Service and AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and on a first come, first served basis.
November
Thursday, November 3
Wine in New York: A History in the Tasting
7:00 p.m.
This event will take place at Brooklyn Winery
As part of our fall program series Brooklyn Food Stories, BHS in conjunction with Brooklyn Winery, presents a history of wine culture in New York, examining several wines produced by New York wineries. Celebrate harvest season by joining Executive Wine Director of Food and Wine Magazine, Ray Isle; Wine Columnist of Eater NY, Talia Baiocchi; Wine Maker, Conor McCormack; and Urban Oyster Founder, David Naczycz, as they share their perspectives on the qualities and history of New York wines. Tickets include a tasting of each of the wines discussed by the panelists. Tickets available online through Brooklyn Winery: $13 BHS members/$15 non-members. This event will take place at Brooklyn Winery 213 North 8th Street Brooklyn, NY.
Brooklyn Winery is a fully functioning urban winery and winemaking center in the Williamsburg neighborhood, with a beautifully appointed wine bar, a large courtyard, and several unique spaces that can be rented for private events, corporate meetings, film shoots, and more.
Fridays and Saturdays, November 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, and 26
Eat Like a Local Tour: Carroll Gardens
2:00-5:30 p.m.
As part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series, join Urban Oyster for a strolling lunch through one of Brooklyn's premiere culinary neighborhoods, Carroll Gardens. This tour will include both old school haunts and new culinary entrepreneurs in an exciting menu of traditional flavors and daring dishes. We'll stop at Italian and Middle Eastern shops that have long been the staple of the neighborhood and explore the growing scene of cafes and restaurants specializing in artisanal foods. As we enjoy their delicacies, we'll learn about the neighborhood's rich history and changing character from local business owners and residents themselves. Tickets: $49 (10% off for BHS members-- call 718.222.4111 for discount). Advance ticket purchase is required. Go to www.urbanoyster.com or call 347.618.8687 to book public or private tours.
Saturdays, November 5, 12, 19, and 26
Immigrant Foodways Tour
11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
As part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series, join Urban Oyster for this Immigrant Foodways Tour. Based on oral histories with residents and business owners in East Williamsburg, this tour explores the history of Brooklyn's "Avenue of Puerto Rico" - once the heart of a Jewish community - and takes an in-depth look at the Moore Street Market, built in 1941 to mark the end of the pushcart era. Today the market is a centerpiece of the Spanish-speaking community. By the end of the tour, you'll be equipped with new knowledge about Latin American ingredients and a booklet of traditional recipes to help you recreate the tastes and smells of the market in your own home. This tour takes place every Saturday. Tickets: $39 (10% off for BHS members -- call 718.222.4111 x250 for discount code). Advance ticket purchase is required. Go to www.urbanoyster.com or call 347.618.8687 to book public or private tours.
Thursday, November 17
Trivial & Convivial: Brooklyn Pub Trivia Night
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Have you ever played trivia in a nineteenth-century landmark building in Brooklyn Heights? It's probably time you did. As part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series, join veteran trivia hosts Stuart Post and Chris Kelley and the rest of the team at the BHS for our third pub-style trivia event featuring prizes, beer, food and, of course, competitive team trivia! Come test your wits with themed rounds about all sorts of Brooklyn ephemera including music, movies, geography and all-around general knowledge. We'll have music clues, movie clips and more! If trivia's not your thing, come by to cheer on the game and enjoy a Brooklyn Brewery beer in one of the most stunning interiors in Brooklyn. Come as a team, or come solo and we’ll find you a team. Come early to locate clues in BHS's exhibits and to ensure your seat. Prizes include tickets to Urban Oyster's Brewed in Brooklyn Tour, Brooklyn Brewery merchandise, Brooklyn Brewery Local 1, Brooklyn neighborhood guides, memberships to BHS and more. Food will be available for purchase. Tickets: $8 BHS members/$10 non-members. Ticket purchase includes admission to trivia event and one free Brooklyn Brewery beer or bottled water. Advanced ticket purchase recommended. Buy your ticket.
Fridays and Saturdays, December 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, and 17
Eat Like a Local Tour: Carroll Gardens
2:00-5:30 p.m.
As part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series, join Urban Oyster for a strolling lunch through one of Brooklyn's premiere culinary neighborhoods, Carroll Gardens. This tour will include both old school haunts and new culinary entrepreneurs in an exciting menu of traditional flavors and daring dishes. We'll stop at Italian and Middle Eastern shops that have long been the staple of the neighborhood and explore the growing scene of cafes and restaurants specializing in artisanal foods. As we enjoy their delicacies, we'll learn about the neighborhood's rich history and changing character from local business owners and residents themselves. Tickets: $49 (10% off for BHS members-- call 718-222-4111 for discount). Advance ticket purchase is required. Go to www.urbanoyster.com or call (347) 618-8687 to book public or private tours.
Saturdays, December 3, 10, and 17
Immigrant Foodways Tour
11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
As part of BHS's Brooklyn Food Stories fall program series, join Urban Oyster for this Immigrant Foodways Tour. Based on oral histories with residents and business owners in East Williamsburg, this tour explores the history of Brooklyn's "Avenue of Puerto Rico" - once the heart of a Jewish community - and takes an in-depth look at the Moore Street Market, built in 1941 to mark the end of the pushcart era. Today the market is a centerpiece of the Spanish-speaking community. By the end of the tour, you'll be equipped with new knowledge about Latin American ingredients and a booklet of traditional recipes to help you recreate the tastes and smells of the market in your own home. This tour takes place every Saturday. Tickets: $39 (10% off for BHS members-- call 718-222-4111 x250 for discount code). Advance ticket purchase is required. Go to www.urbanoyster.com or call (347) 618-8687 to book public or private tours.
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