This is a preview for our May 20th Masters of Social Gastronomy lecture Food of the High Seas!
Hardtack is a terrible thing to eat. Tasteless, rock-hard biscuits of twice-baked flour (and salt if you're lucky), hardtack has been a major means of sustinence for sailors throughout history.
Fortunately, though, a) you're probably not a sailor, and b) hardtack has a lot of fun nicknames: ship's biscuit, sea biscu...
Our friends at the Brooklyn Historical Society have a very cool event coming up this week: Brooklyn on Brooklyn: Elizabeth Streb and Jed Walentas on Wednesday, May 7, and they're generously offering Brainery fans free admission if you use the code BKBRAINS when registering on Eventbrite.
Join two Brooklynites who transformed community through art: MacArthur Genius Award-winning ...
Coming your way, this week!
The History of the Gowanus Canal - May 5
The History of Landscape Design from 1860-1960 - May 7
The Brooklyn Waterfront, Past and Present - May 8
Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down: Writing Reviews for Film - May 9 (daytime session!)
Wontons & Dumplings - three sessions on May 10!
For May's Masters of Social Gastronomy lecture, we're revisiting the topic so awesome Mother Nature snowed it out this past winter: the food of the high seas.
We'll explore the culinary world of drunken sailors, seventeenth-century pirates, and the modern-day cruise ships that rule the waves. What's so tough about hard tack, and how exactly do you come down with a case of scurvy?
We'll be trum...
Have you ever taken a class here at the Brainery and wished you could learn even more from your awesome teacher? You're in luck! Some of our amazing teachers have written equally amazing books!
In this episode of "Books By Brainery Teachers" we're focusing on three books in the food realm. We highly recommend each of these books and if you like what you read, you'll love the classes the authors teach.
The Chinese...
Last-minute planners, never fear! We have a bunch of (very) varied classes coming your way this week. Click the links to learn more and register.
Writing Poetry: The Villanelle - Sunday, April 13
Sounding the Planet: Ecomusicology and Advocacy - Wednesday, April 16
Chapbooks: the Pamphlet Stich and the Art of Self-Publishing - Thursday, April 17
Spring Tree Identification - Propsect Heights wa...
We picked up a bottle of tarkhun, or tarragon soda, while shopping in Brighton Beach the other day--I couldn't resist the color, an incredibly bright shade of green that manages to mimic the color of grass while appearing unnatural when captured in a glass bottle. I loved it and couldn't wait to give it a try.
In contrast to the intense color, the flavor of the soda is pleasantly understated. We all picked u...
It might not be prime ice cream eating weather quite yet, but for this month's Masters of Social Gastronomy lecture, we're bringing summertime to Brooklyn no matter what the thermometer says.
Hear the tale of vanilla ice cream, a commonplace flavor with a rare and exotic past. We'll take a hard look at the science that makes ice cream tick and see if we can harness the DIY spirit to craft up astron...
Join us on Saturday, April 12, at 9:30am for a look at the college admissions process with Dr. Joie Jager-Hyman.
RSVP here.
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When should you or your student begin preparing for college admissions, and what, exactly, needs to be done? This class will offer a comprehensive timeline, spanning freshman to senior year, of how to best prepare your student to apply to college.
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Here's your handy monthly list of classes that don't cost all that much cash:
Obamacare and Me in NYC - Wednesday, March 26
A History of Royal Scotland - Monday, March 31
Tex-Mex: Demystified - Wednesday, April 2
ABCs of IRAs - Saturday, April 5
MADE IN NYC - Thursday, April 10
A Guide to the College Admissions Timeline - FREE! - Saturday, April 12
Sounding the Planet: Ecomusicology a...
