Vote on the Cover Image for our First-Ever Dairy Issue

We’re currently debating what to put on our next cover, for our first-ever Dairy Issue out later this month. Contenders include photos by Vicky Wasik, Emily Dryden, Moya McAllister, Max Flatow and Shannon Sturgis and of Brooklyn Roasting Company, Rye, Egg, Ronnybrook, Ardith Mae, and Stinky Bklyn.

A Brownsville Farm Could Use Your Muscle, and Your Battery-Powered Drill

The Brownsville Student Farm we wrote about a few months ago is looking for help building planter beds and an outdoor classroom and pavilion. The organizers have had wood donated but need the tools, skilled laborers and also those who will just lift and carry. If you have power tools, construction skills or would just like to help build on one of their March volunteer days (4, 10, 11, 17, 24, 25) please let them know. If you’re nervous, go on the 4th — it’s a site clean-up day. Last but not least, if you’re looking to get rid of a pickup truck, they could use a donation. You can connect with the farm via Twitter @BrownsvilleFarm.

This Saturday, Art and Food Meet Over Dinner at 388 Metropolitan Ave

The blending of art and food have always been one our favorite intersections. (Fifth Avenue and 51st Street in Sunset Park is also nice, if you like tacos.) So we wanted to say thanks to Daily Candy for sending notice of this “eating installation” and pop-up supper into our inbox. Called Something I Ate, it all takes place in somebody’s house at 388 Metropolitan Avenue (at Havermeyer) in Williamsburg.

Most Unusual! Cartoon Caption Contest Winners, Cocktail Recipes and Photos from the Enchanted Forest

It feels like years since we helped Hendrick’s gin with the menu for a special December 14th invite-only dinner in the “Enchanted Forest of Curiosities,” but we just got a load of photos of the event (shown above) as well as recipes from Hendrick’s for every cocktail we drank (those are below) and we wanted to share. The event, you may recall, is a semi-portable forest the British gin company sets up once or twice a year as an Alice in Wonderland-like collaborative party space complete with a soil floor, a foggy mist, and actors that scamper among spotted toadstools dressed as forest-like creatures.

Chozen Ice Cream’s Newest Flavor? Coffee Talk, Joining Ronne’s Rugelach and Matzoh Crunch Made with Help from Brooklyn Bakers

You likely don’t have to be Jewish to get the “certain inside jokes and elements” that go into the flavor profiles of Chozen ice cream, says co-founder Meredith Fisher, but an appreciation for Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm probably helps. Chozen is a small, family-run, certified Kosher ice-cream brand conceived by Fisher, her mother Ronne and her sister Isabelle Krishana one night as they sat around the dining table and paired vanilla ice cream with Ronne’s homemade rugalach eaten right from the freezer. That became their first flavor–cinnamon ice cream swirled with pieces of apricot, walnut, raisin and almond pastry–which launched in June 2010 along with Matzoh Crunch and Coconut Macaroon.

Scenes from Downtown’s New DeKalb Market, Made from Old Shipping Containers and Open Daily

Made out of 22 recycled shipping containers, DeKalb Market opened July 23 and is Brooklyn’s newest outdoor market. Found at Fulton Mall (that’s 332 Flatbush Avenue Extension) it encompasses the Brooklyn zeitgeist not just with its cool use of upcycling, but its mix of local eateries, retail shops, an incubator farm and even an Internet radio station, BBox Radio. DeKalb Market is open year-round, seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.