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  We have a limited number of gorgeous flower bouquets from our talented flower farmer friend, Maddy, at Bloomcourt. Specialty tulips, narcissus, agrostemma, and ranunculus. Very fragrant! Available to pick up this Friday evening, or on Saturday or Sunday from 10 to 7p.

Perhaps you need a nice card...or a new cookbook...

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  Another delightful gift: deeply discounted SPRING PANETTONE from Luigi Biasetto.   "Throughout the inside, you’ll be delighted by pieces of fragrant candied orange peels. Cloud-like soft, elastic, and velvety, Colomba by Pasticceria Biasetto egg-laden bright yellow dough immediately jumps to the eye; a first bite reveals a perfectly balanced freshness, a clean flavor with delicate notes of honey and vanilla, enlivened by candied orange."

 No. 4  →  Really excited about this ZOOM event with author Jill Damatac and the brill Alicia Kennedy. With emotional intelligence, clarity, and grace, Dirty Kitchen explores fractured memories to ask questions of identity, colonialism, immigration, and belonging, and to find ways in which the ritual, tradition, and comfort of food can answer them.  

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  Our next Cookbook Club pick! Cook Vietnamese all month long and join us on June 11th. 

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  Have you ever wondered if you can order a book from us that is not food related? The answer is SI. Please feel free to email us with those inquiries at [email protected] or support our shop on bookshop.org.  

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Why Cook: Timeless recipes and life lessons from inspiring women by Archana Pidathala

Why Cook brings together inspiring women — artists, creators, entrepreneurs, musicians, writers and farmers — and explores why they cook and how cooking and food anchor them in their life journeys. There are stories of hope and generosity, of courage and resilience, interwoven with lessons for cooking and eating, and deeply personal recipes. In the kitchens of Why Cook, you will explore questions of identity and the self, meet custodians of seed, soil and water, get a taste of the forest and the sea, find ways to navigate loneliness and grief, revel in the scent of fresh earth and woodsmoke, and above all cherish everyday moments and meals.

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 → A Step Saving Kitchen from 1949. Can feel the Virgo's and Designers coming out of the woodwork: "We need at least 36 inches to make bread and 42 inches is a more desirable length for the mixing counter." Enjoy!

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our upcoming events + happenings

 P O E T R Y   T A B L E TUE MAY 13 Love to write poetry and want a place to be in the thick of it? Come join POETRY TABLE, a low stakes environment for your experiments, a place to meet fellow writers in the hood, and a way to establish a regular practice. Free, Drinks for sale 

 A U T H O R    Z O O M    E V E N T MON MAY 19 Join us for a very special evening in celebration of Dirty Laundry: A Memoir of Food and Family. Author Jill Damatac will be joined in conversation by food and culture writer Alicia Kennedy.  $5 or book 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T WED MAY 21 Join us for a very special evening in celebration of Food Person: A Novel.Author Adam Roberts will be joined in conversation with accomplished cookbook author (and the woman who launched a thousand Substacks) Deb Perelman. Apparently, the main character in the novel, Isabella, actually lives in Greenpoint where she frequents her favorite place in the city: Alice’s Cookbook Emporium. We obviously had to have Adam at the shop. $5 or book 

 B O O K B O O K   C L U B FRI MAY 30 Every six-ish weeks we read a new memoir, a collection of essays, novel, or anything else we find interesting that somehow, in a big or small way, relates to food. Then we discuss.

Read through Group My Lunches with Orson by Peter Biskind in April and join us IN PERSON on May 30th! Free, Books for sale

 K E E P    G R E E N P O I N T   W E I R D   B O O K   C L U B MON JUN 2 Read through The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher in April and May and join us IN PERSON on JUNE 2th! We are going to watch a movie Fisher references in the book after this discussion if you wanna stick around.  Free event, Books for sale 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T THUR JUN 5 Join us for a very special evening in celebration of Enrique Olvera's Sunny Days, Taco Nights. Olvera will be joined in conversation by a moderator, soon to be announced. 

Enrique Olvera is known for the sophisticated Mexican cuisine he serves at his globally renowned restaurants, including the iconic Pujol, in Mexico City. However, his true passion is the everyday taco, which he regards as the most ‘democratic’ of foods. In Sunny Days, Taco Nights, Olvera presents an in-depth exploration of the taco’s history and many different styles, ingredients, and accompaniments, and much more. $5 or book

 C O O K B O O K   C L U B WED JUN 11 Join us at the shop for a community potluck and party! The Archestratus Cookbook Club has been running for 9 years and counting...

IT IS SIMPLE: Cook your way through Madame Vo in MAY and drop by with a dish on JUNE 11! 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, but MUST bring a dish to eat, Books for sale

 A G O R A   C L U B DATE TBD Agora, from the Greek – an Assembly of the People, used not only for debating, trials, and other public purposes, but also as a marketplace – a shop? A place where people gather to talk about ideas together.

A philosophy reading group, gathered for the sake of puzzling through the specific peculiarities, insights, and pleasures of the text, and for the sake of talking together about what the world is and who we are.

Monthly, or so. Essays, short texts, ideally readable in a long quiet afternoon. Texts drawn from no particular tradition or time period.

Facilitated by KATIE KELLEY (PhD, Philosophy, NSSR), lapsed academic and longtime friend, sometimes employee of the the shop.  Free event, Books for sale 

 A C C A D E M I A DATE TBD  Ever had an idea for a screenplay but have no idea where to start? If so, this class is for you! Local hero and screenwriting professor Sophie Finkelstein will introduce you to the craft of screenwriting and take you through an exploration into the universal art of storytelling. $695 for a 7 week intensive 

  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 COMING IN 2025: 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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