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Brooklyn Eats

Hosted by: Rachel Wharton

Produced by: Jack Inslee

Engineered by: Nat Weiner

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Bi-weekly: Wednesdays at at 5:00PM EST

Get the scoop on the food culture of New Yorkers--past, present and future--as Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan deputy editor Rachel Wharton assembles a lively cast of movers-and-thinkers in Gotham's food and drink landscape, from journalists to chefs, from urban food entrepreneurs to gastro-activists.

Read previews and commentary on the show at www.ediblemanhattan.com

Recent Episodes

Brooklyn Eats - Episode 13 - Eating Where You've Never Eaten Before

Brooklyn Eats - Episode 12 - Ava Chin

Brooklyn Eats - Episode 11 - Food Lover's Guide to Brooklyn

Previous episodes


Episodes:
Brooklyn Eats - Episode 14 - Egg Creams
First Aired - 09/01/2010 06:00PM

This week on Brooklyn Eats spirit expert Robert Simonson relays his past few months spent researching articles on The NY Egg Cream for Edible Brooklyn & Manhattan. Learn the various conflicting stories regarding the birth of the egg cream (long-lost familial secret? European misunderstanding?) and hear the science and art behind the egg cream's most important component: seltzer (NOT club soda). Plus, how did Fox's U-Bet become the undisputed king of Egg Cream syrups? This episode was sponsored by Tekserve: your one-stop Mac superstore.

Photo: Yonah Shimmel Egg Creams via Edible Manhattan

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The Return of The Egg Cream (19:22)

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Ron Starman: Seltzer Man Extrordinaire (10:41)

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Ron Starman, third generation seltzer man, installing seltzer systems, seltzer addict, Ron Starman likes to play golf and is very hard to get on the phone, Fort Defiance's satate of the art seltzer system, with seltzer this good it is your obligation to make egg creams, super cooled water is best for carbonating, The New Monitor, fizzy and refreshing, Brooklyn Naval Yards, U-Bet, taste-testing chocolate syrups, tastes processed, David Fox, Kelly Fox, there were many syrup purveyors back in the day, business shenanigans, the Fox syrup monopoly, egg cream conspiracy theory, Ray Alverez, diamond blue raspberry, Brooklyn Pharmacy uses Brooklyn-made natural syrups, there were mobile egg cream carts all over the city, your very first egg cream, Tom's old-school egg cream, make the best egg cream you can, egg cream mustache, drinking from a bowl, New York Times, writing about booze,

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Brooklyn Eats - Episode 13 - Eating Where You've Never Eaten Before
First Aired - 08/25/2010 06:00PM

Joshua M. Bernstein & Matt Levy

Photo: Joshua M. Bernstein

Photo: Matt Levy

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Brooklyn Eats: Find What You're Looking For (16:23)

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Rachael Wharton, eating where you don't normally eat, the town of kings, wholefoods market, Joshual M. Bernstein, food writer, Metromix, Time Out, Matt Levy, Graffitti Walking Tour, Levy's Unique New York, cheap eats, exploring Brooklyn, egg creams, Sunset Park is the jam, Hunan Flavor Shack, cold noodles, granulated sugar in Chinese food, Edible Ethnic Brooklyn Eats Tour, Red Hook Marcado, Jew power, Jewish Brooklyn, Korn's Bakery, Burroughs Park, Avenue J, Coney Island Avenue, Pomegranate, Hummus Place, Mimi's, Olympic Grill, giant falafel sandwiches, Alex Deli, best tortas in the city, Coney Island, Mermaid Avenue, Major Meatmarket, the Boardwalk, The Bowery, Ruby's clams on a half shell, piroschkas, Brighton Bizaar, Brighton Beach, street food on the weekends, Draft Bar, beer garden,

The Other Other (14:13)

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Brooklyn, www.levysunique.com, all kinds of tours, Caribbean Food, Crown Heights, heaven for cheap spicy foods, ordering a double, Trinidad, Jamaican cooking, Nostrand Avenue, hot sauces of the tropics, peppers from Trinidad, peanut punch, so much vegetarian Caribbean cooking, Rastafarian are vegetarian, Imhotep, Veggie Castle, where Brooklyn becomes Queens, a hijacked White Castle building, Mill Basin, Deep Brooklyn, the new restaurant row in Ditmus Park, Top Cafe Tibet, Greenwood Heights, Eagle Supermarket, Smolen, Corzo, Old School Italian in Brooklyn, Belmonte's in Williamsburg, Dyker Heights, Court Street, Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, mygutinstinct.wordpress.com,

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