Print Issue: Summer 2014: Issue No. 34

Artisan Cheese Made in a Gowanus Apartment

Some home cooks ferment their own yogurt or make mozzarella from a kit. Matt Spiegler takes DIY dairy to another dimension: Technically he’s a layman—keeping his day job as a web developer, and giving his homemade caseus away to friends—but he is anything but an amateur.

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Good Eggs Lets Artisanal Eaters Skip the Schlepp

Good Eggs’ goal is to help farmers and other producers solve one of the most vexing questions facing the new generation of food producers: How do you efficiently market and distribute your small-batch, artisanal products?

Four and Twenty Blackbirds Rolls Out a Pie Empire

When you heard that two sisters—one trained in sculpture and photography, the other in business and finance—opened a pie shop in Gowanus, you might have guessed they launched the business six months after rolling out their first crust. But pie is Emily and Melissa Elsen’s birthright.