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May Monthly Pearl - The Good Batch

4/30/2014

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The Good Batch in Brooklyn started with the founder and pastry chef, Anna Gordon, getting requests to make fresh stroopwafels.  This traditional Dutch sweet is a chewy waffle cookie from our original New York (Amsterdam) founders and is a featured taste on our Tenements, Tales & Tastes Tour.  At The Good Batch each waffle is hand-pressed, sliced over and layered around a buttery caramel center.


Since the original Dutch stroopwafel, the bakery has expanded to macaroons, cookies, nuts and more including the Brown Butter Salty (a shortbread cookie with brown butter and topped with sea salt) and the Honey Bear (ground oat and peanut butter cookies filled with honey and sea salt peanut butter, topped with raw sugar).  One of our favorite's is a compost bar which combines all of their scraps into a layered bar (a chocolate and caramel base, a layer of sea salt peanut butter and rice cereal coated in a dark Belgian chocolate). 
All of the addictive treats made by The Good Batch can be found at retailers though out the city and they also have a table at Smorgasburg.  You can also buy straight from their website at thegoodbatch.com

Looking for a great Mother's Day gift?  Gift Ma a membership to their Cookie of the Month Club, then invite yourself over to help her taste test!
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#MustDoMondays- A Taste of Queens, East Side Stories, a Graphic History of Bohemia & More!

4/29/2014

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Bohemians:  A Graphic History
Mon. April 28, 6:30pm

This free event will invite Historians to speak about the graphic history of the transcontinental movement.  They'll discuss the rise of Greenwich Village and Harlem, the multiracial jazz world and Bohemia across the country.  For more info, click here.

Greenport Harbor Beer Dinner
Tues. April 29, 7:30pm

Visit the gorgeous Vanderbilt in Prospect Heights.  Enjoy a Greenport Harbor tasting menu featuring the restaurant's New American bar fare by Chef Saul Bolton.  For more info, click here.

Queens Taste 2014
Tues. April 29, 6pm

Come to the most ethnically diverse county in the United States for a night of multicultural tastings (and drinks!).  This year they'll have some clowns on hand from the Big Apple Circus giving away free red clown noses (not required) and doing magic tricks.  For more info, click here.

East Side Stories
Thurs. May 1, 7pm

Visit the Metropolitan Playhouse for East Side Stories: 4 evenings of new plays about the history and culture of the Lower East Side.  Programs will include; Outsiders, Movers, Ghosts and Shakers.  For more info, click here.

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#TuesdayTidbits - The NYC Bagel

4/23/2014

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There is nothing more quintessentially New York City, than a great bagel for breakfast (maybe even with some lox and cream-cheese on top).  Sources varies on where it originated, some saying from China, others from Italy, but the country that comes up the most is Poland.  Rolls with holes were found in Krakow as early as 1610 and most agree that they were important with the large Jewish communities moving to NYC.  On our Tenements Tales & Tastes Tour you can get a first hand look at the influence of the Jewish community on New York's food culture.


Most bagels are made by shaping the dough into a bagel shape, then letting them sit for 12 hours.  After that, they're boiled before being bakes which give the bagel the soft, chewy inside and crispy outside.  This process makes it different from the other roll imported from Poland, the Bialy, which is not boiled first and has a depression, instead of a hole, which can be filled with onions, garlic, poppy seed or other ingredients.
By 1907, the baking of bagels was regulated by a union, joining together about 300 bakers.  In the 1930s practically every baker who made bagels was a part of the union and preferred only to give the 'bagel making techniques and secrets' to their sons who would then join the union as well.  It wasn't until the 1960s that bagels began to be mass produced and popularized across the country.  You can always make the trip down to the Lower East Side for the original bagel but today some of the best bagel shops are spread across the city.  Some of our favorites are Murray's Bagel in Greenwich Village and the Brooklyn Bagel Co. ironically located in Astoria, Queens which has a rotating array of cream-cheese including maple bacon and cannoli cream.
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#MustDoMondays- Tribeca Film Festival, downtown bakery visit, NY Travel Fest & more!

4/22/2014

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The Brewer's Pick:  Barrier Brewing Company
Wed. April 23, 8-10pm

Visit this great bar space in Astoria for a night curated by the Barrier Brewing Copany.  They'll take over the tap list and playlist for a night of beers, music and NY beer history.  For more info, click here.

Favorite Downtown Bakeries with Russell Moss
Wed. April 23, 10am

Tour through Chef Moss’ favorite downtown bakeries which will include tastings at Balthazar, Ceci-Cela and Grandaisy.  For more info, click here.


Tsai Ming Liang's 'Journey to the West' (Tribeca Film Festival)
Thurs. April 24 (through 26), 12pm-6pm

Join in on the Tribeca Film Festival and catch Tsai Ming Liang’s ‘Journey to the West’ for free as an installation in MoMA PS1’s geodesic VW Dome.  The film, loosely based on a classical Chinese tale, shows the epic journey of a Buddhist monk.  For more information, click here.
NY Travel Fest
Sat. & Sun. April 26 & 27, see link for full schedule

Join us at the NY Travel Fest for access to talks and panels from top names in the travel industry.  Talk to travel experts one on one, try some exotic food pairings and win some amazing prizes (we’ll be giving away some great ones at the NYC Urban Adventures booth).  For more info and tickets, click here.

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