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 No. 1 →  Ham's here and you no gotta do much! Look no further for your light lift holiday table centerpiece!  ENTER:   Smoking Goose BLACK LAKE HOUSE RUM HAM   Pasture raised, boneless ham that they cured for 30 days under Lake House Spiced Rum distilled by their friends at Cardinal Spirits, along with ginger, lime, star anise, mint syrup and pineapple.    Smoked over cherry wood: Full cooked, ready to eat.  The hams also freeze beautifully if you can't eat it all on Easter!  Preorder Here 

 No. 2 →  Finally, we are having a BINGO NIGHT!  Hosted by Liz Alpern of Queer Soup Night and The Gefilteria, we'll be playing four rounds of serious bingo for serious prizes.  (Think fancy italian things.) Delicious snacks provided by Chef Liz and drinks available to purchase.   7p to 8:30p, you see us? 

No. 3  →

  Devra Ferst, our good friend, food writer, and Archestratus professoressa of our many years running should-be-award-winning class Breaking into Food Writing co-authored a cookbook!  Join us as we celebrate her new book The Jewish Holiday Table: A World of Recipes, Traditions & Stories to Celebrate All Year Long. We are filled with joy and pride! Come Come. There will be juniper gravalax! 

Sign-ups extended to April 1st!

No. 4  →

  The Norwich Meadows Farm Summer CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is now up! Scroll down for a video about the farm.  Please note, deliveries start in mid June.  "Why?" you ask. Well, this is the way of the CSA: You are an investor. You pay now, we send them the money asap. This chunk of money helps the farm fund the start of their season (when they have very little cash flow.) As an investor perk, you get 22 weeks of stuffed boxes of the highest quality, inspired veg for something around $40 a week.   It's our fourth year with Norwich and their creativity and Egyptian farming techniques continue to inspire us. Invest here. 

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  We are still selling this beau merchandiser fridge. La vita! Spec details here. Thank you for telling da world! Deals Deals Deals. Half awf the retail price! Cowabunga!  Email [email protected] for more details or reply to this email. 

No. 6  →  We are *possibly* still hiring for a few shifts. $20 an hour, paid lunch (both food and time). Send over an email to [email protected] 

No. 7  →  Watch this space: We are starting up a new DRAWING TABLE at the end of April. Local artist, card maker, and friend of the shop Sandra Chi will be running things! We leave you here with some scenes from our pre-pandemic #archestratusdrawingtable  Enjoy! 

no spring chicken!

A   R A R E   S E L E C T I O N

The Old World Kitchen: The Rich Tradition of European Peasant Cooking by Elisabeth Luard / $125

Hardcover, 1987 ed, dust jacket - vg/good, book - very good

Award-winning food writer Elisabeth Luard joyously salutes the foundations of modern Western cooking with recipes collected during more than twenty-five years of travel and research, many of them spent living in rural France, Spain, Greece, Ireland, and Italy. This definitive collection of over three hundred time-tested recipes from twenty-five European countries is an indispensable guide to the simple, delicious, and surprisingly exotic dishes of peasant Europe.

Would you like to eat things that are not nonsense? Secure a curated mystery assortment of exquisite foods that restores faith in the universe.

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 → Ahhhhh, watch Bingo night host Liz Alpern make some pear apple sauce for a Munchies Hanukkah special. It was filmed during the Obama administration and wow you can surely feel the times. Enjoy!

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our upcoming events + happenings

 G A M E   N I G H T WED MAR 27  Hosted by Liz Alpern of Queer Soup Night and The Gefilteria. We'll be playing four rounds of serious bingo for serious prizes. (Think fancy italian things.) Delicious snacks provided by Chef Liz and beer/wine available to purchase. a $10 ticket gets your entry for the big game. 

 P O P   U P SAT MAR 30 We are very excited to have the kind people of Kinhfolk coffee (a new Brooklyn Vietnamese coffee spot set to open its doors in a few months) pop-up at the shop. Come by and try their very special phin brew method with 100% robusta beans! Free to hang 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T WED APR 4 Join us for a very special evening with our good friend, food writer, and Archestratus professoressa Devra Ferst as we celebrate her new co-authored book The Jewish Holiday Table: A World of Recipes, Traditions & Stories to Celebrate All Year Long. We are filled with joy and pride! She will be joined by New York Times food columnist Nikita Richardson. $5 or book 

 B O O K B O O K   C L U B THUR APR 11 Every six-ish weeks we read a new memoir, a collection of essays, novels, or anything else we find interesting that somehow, in a big or small way, relates to food. Then we discuss. Read through The Pepsi Cola Addict by June-Alison Gibbons and join us IN PERSON in April. Free, Books for sale 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T FRI APR 12 Join us for a very special evening as we celebrate Rosa Jackson's new cookbook Niçoise: Market-Inspired Cooking from France's Sunniest City. She is flying in and joining us from France, so come make your way to the shop for what is bound to be a transportive evening.  $5 or book 

 C O O K B O O K   C L U B THUR APR 18 IT IS SIMPLE: Cook your way through The New Ballymaloe Bread Book by Darina Allen in MARCH and drop by with a dish on THURSDAY APR 18th! All are welcome! It's a potluck party! It's mad civilized! Potlucks with all of you give us a dose of hope for the universe! Free event, Books + Drinks for sale 

Z O O M   A U T H O R   E V E N T SUN MAY 19 Join us for a very special conversation with author Fadi Kattan. Fadi lives and works Bethlehem, so he will be joining us over Zoom. The talk will be moderated by Professor Nevine Abraham of Carnegie Mellon University. Save the date and preorder a book today. $5 or book

 A N O T H E R   B O O K   C L U B MAR/APR 2024 We are partnering with writer Alicia Kennedy for her March/April pick from The Desk Book Club: The Desk Book Club will be a monthly space for discussion on four different food nonfiction books per year, ranging from memoir to reportage to, in some cases, more academic food studies work. Meetings will be held for Alicia's paid subscribers only. 

  ART NOW ON VIEW / i n   B O O K S HEADS WILL ROLL 

New sculptural objets de art from Daniel Zender.

S O C I A L   C L U B: Join us as we build a community around building community cookbooks! It's the COMMUNITY COOKBOOK COMMITTEE. Learn more here. Want to be a part of the reading/editing/ compiling team that makes this all happen? Email us to be added to the Google Group and we will keep you updated about when these meetings will resume.

PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HOSTING A COMMUNITY GROUP or HAVING AN EVENT.

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