Recent Posts Tagged With 'brooklyn'

• The Other Brooklyn

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 02:00 in brooklyn, queens, sicily, story, sicilian, nonna, family story

       I am from Queens, (let this be clear) but when my grandparents came here from Sicily, they first settled in Brooklyn, in Bushwick to be exact. And Rocco went to Bushwick High School when it wasn't cool to live in Bushwick. Very not cool. I re...

• A Concussion and Dislocated Shoulder, a Typical Day in Coney Island

  Posted on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 02:00 in review, funny, new york, brooklyn, stories, Pizza, restaurants, story, cyclone, coney island, best pizza, l and b

       Coney Island is by far my favorite place in the entire world. A lot of people think weirdos and degenerates when they think of Coney Island, but take a minute to talk to some of these characters and you might change your mind. Amazing lightin...

• I'll take one of everything! Brooklyn's Unfancy Food Show

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 21:16 in review, brooklyn, taza chocolates, mcclure's pickles, the brooklyn kitchen. salvatore bklyn, unfancy food show, queens county farm museum, liddabit sweets, nunu chocolates, fine and raw chocolates

      Who needs fancy when you can just eat and have fun? Thats what the Unfancy Food Show was all about, sampling some really delicious grub while meeting the geniuses who's very hands created it. Having been raised by my Sicilian father Rocco, I h...

• A ROOFTOP FARM IN GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN

  Posted on Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 02:00 in farm, new york, brooklyn, agriculture, farmers, ben, annie, rooftop farm

      What was more surreal than a farm on top of an industrial warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with panoramic views of the New York City, was climbing stairs in the warehouse that lead up to the roof top farm.    Sue and I went up two flights ...