Eat. Drink. Live.
A cemetery to the famous. And the not-so-famous. Green-Wood, a historic landmark, is home to the resting places of such notables as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Horace Greeley and Leonard Bernstein. At least those were the three we chose to visit. You […]
Next step on our Big Day of Fun: The Design within Reach warehouse sale in Industry City in Brooklyn. A balmy day, indeed. This is a similar sale to those that Greg has often worked in Secaucus. Tables: Furniture: Our […]
No sleep til Brooklyn! We are heading out on a Big Day of Fun people, and it starts right here with a delicious Thai meal at Pok Pok NY. Heading down in the family truckster: We were a few minutes […]
After Brooklyn Flea and Franny’s, we ended our BDoF in Brooklyn with a walk around DUMBO. What a great view. Here are some pics. Related posts: Grazing at Smorgasburg! Browsing at Brooklyn Flea An Afternoon at Brooklyn Botanic Garden Afternoon […]
Next stop, after our appetizers at Brooklyn Flea? Lunch, of course! We enjoyed a leisurely lunch in the garden at Franny’s, where we tasted a farro salad with corn, zucchini, almonds, manchego, spring peas and scallions with a lemon vinaigrette. […]
We so enjoyed our lobster roll at Brooklyn Flea earlier in the day, and we couldn’t stop thinking about it. So after some hand-wringing (should we drive there? what is the traffic’s bad? what if it costs us another hour? […]
Smorgasburg, run by the same folks who run Brooklyn Flea, is a giant food market that’s more like a flea market. You browse around, tasting a little here and a little there. Our favey spot? Bon Chovie. We liked it […]
Caroline Fidanza was the chef who put Diner and Marlowe & Sons, two pioneering Brooklyn restaurants, on the map. After leaving those restaurants, she opened a new one with two partners, Elizabeth Schula and Rebecca Collerton. Saltie is a tiny little […]
We’re up for a big day of fun in Brooklyn, kids. First stop: Brooklyn Flea, the market where you can find great bargains for cool stuff and get some delicious food while you’re at it. Come see. Related posts: Walking […]
When you’re done with dinner at 8, there’s really nothing wrong with stopping in the local cocktail club for a post, is there? We thought not. Related posts: Goatherd Book Club: A Room with a View A Nightcap at the […]
Prime Meats is the kind of place a couple of tourists from upstate might find themselves as the first diners at 6:30 p.m. on a Thursday night for dinner. About 20 minutes later, a family from the neighborhood — celebrating […]
A walk through Park Slope to Carroll Gardens — two days before Halloween. We saw costumes, bats, spiders, and some very scary other things, like warehouses along the Gowanus Canal. But first, the pretty stuff. Like pumpkins. Related posts: An […]
Brilliant fall colors. A native flora garden. Blooming roses. All in a day’s visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Prospect Park. Related posts: Garden Party at the Chisholms Garden Update: Coneflowers, Cosmos, Blackberries and Butterfly Bushes Farm and Fowl; […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
