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Kitchen Tour: Dan Kluger's Brooklyn "Real Chef" Kitchen

I recently had the great privilege of touring the Park Slope, Brooklyn home kitchen of Dan Kluger, the executive chef of Core: Club.I was so curious to find out what a “real” chef’s kitchen look...

Food-Lover's Guide to Brooklyn
The best markets, artisans, and shops for cooks

City: Brooklyn, New York Population: 2.5 million Local specialties: Pizza; Middle Eastern, Russian, and Polish foods; fresh, local and organic produce at farmers' markets, steak, beer Brooklyn rivals...

Kitchen Tour: Virginia and Mateo's Just-in-Time-for-Baby Brooklyn Renovation

See Gallery of Virginia and Mateo's Kitchen Virginia and Mateo aren't the first homeowners to use a baby on the way as an enforced window of time for finishing a kitchen renovation. Sara Kate did it ...

Times Top 5: Brooklyn-Born Food and More Soup Recipes
From the NY Times Dining Section 02.25.09

We've known for some time that Brooklyn has a growing number of artisan food producers. Space is cheaper, for one thing, but there's also a passionate community that is welcoming locally made cheese, ...

Kitchen Tour: Sarah's Small and Plucky Ortine Café

We recently took a kitchen tour of Ortine Café, a new Prospect Heights, Brooklyn eatery opened by former Schiller’s and Pastis manager, Sarah Peck. The restaurant, which opened mid-December, ...

Times Top 5: Brooklyn Gets Brewing
From the NY Times Dining Section 10.29.08

There isn't a lot of home eating in The Times this morning, but there is some drinking... Read about these beers and more, below....

NYC Event: How to Create a Green Roof Garden

New Yorkers and other urban dwellers without a backyard might think their gardening must be limited to a few windowsill pots, and the cool light of an Aerogrow. But if you've got a roof of any kind, y...

Supermarket Closings Make Fresh Food Less Accessible

We're often seen here hooting and hollering and get all excited every time a snazzy new grocery store opens. We've brought you new Whole Foods (ostrich eggs, anyone?), Trader Joe's, Fairway and Fresh ...

NY City Council Green Carts Program Putting More Fresh Produce in "Food Deserts"

Food deserts are areas where communities don't have access to healthy, fresh food. Communities are blocked for economic and geographic reasons from accessing good food. Last week, New York City coun...

Store Review: Urban Rustic

The John Deere tractor on the sign out front is your first clue that Urban Rustic isn't your average Brooklyn corner market. Stepping inside on a recent visit, we felt as if we'd suddenly been tran...

Brooklyn Dishtowels and Mugs

We New Yorkers are all beaming with city pride today (Go Giants!). So this seems like a good day to share these Brooklyn dishtowels and mugs from DSC Designs. The mugs and dishtowels sell for $15 a ...

Holiday Host's Diary #3: Pictures from the Party

Happy Holidays from TheKitchn! I wanted to share some pictures from my Christmas party and see how your celebrations are coming along too. A two pound hunk of English Stilton with Port and Pepper W...

NYC: Organic Cranberries Debut at Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket

Can the canned cranberries, Brooklyn. We discovered a couple from DeNike Bogs in Plymouth, MA selling organic cranberries at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket last weekend. We heard some people waxing...