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THIS SATURDAY at 7p / Join us as we welcome back to the shop (all the way from Japan) one of our favorite cookbook authors and all around incredible humans Nancy Singleton Hachisu! We are honored to be celebrating JAPAN: The Vegetarian Cookbook.  Expect snacks prepared by Nancy and her team, a moderated conversation with Greenpoint's very own Zach Mangan of Kettl Tea, a Q + A, and signing.   Tickets here. 

 No. 2 →  Musician and bon vivant Jess Tsang has been curating evenings of music at the shop. Come hear the captivating Italian guitarist/vocalist Niki Todesco tonight at 7p.  *This event is pay what you wish with proceeds going to the musicians. 

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  Come try our new menu situation! We are serving arancine, some sandwiches, antipasttt and yummy parms in the cafe FRIDAY through SUNDAY 11 to 7p.  PEOPLE LOVE DA SARDINES! 

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  Our event with Home Dashtaki and Klancy Miller event at long last has a new date! Details here. Thrilled. 

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  We are highly disturbed by the new robot coffee shop that opened at 666 Manhattan Ave yesterday and would like to stop it and feel generally helpless.  No matter how brief or robotic our encounter may be, thank you for connecting with us spirit to spirit on a daily basis.  

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  Are you looking to rent kitchen space, have a pop-up, throw a bake sale, a private luncheon, a private event, a wedding, a Tupperware party, or what have you? Email [email protected] for more info about renting our kitchen or working with us for an event.  

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 → One of the most memorable moments in Samin Nostrat's Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is when Nancy Singleton Hachisu takes Samin to meet legendary soy sauce brewer Yasuo Yamamoto. Watch this beautiful video of his process. Eraserhead vibes!

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  TUE MAY 23 / M U S I C A     hello/at last is a concert series at Archestratus curated by percussionist/improviser Jess Tsang.  THE GOOD ENERGY IS HERE. COME. Free!

 FRI MAY 26 / C L A S S   Learn to prepare a full seasonal Sicilian meal with cook/owner of Archestratus Paige Lipari. Come ready to cook a bunch of dishes, stay long enough to mangia, and leave with some delicious recipes in hand.

  SAT MAY 27 / a u t h o r  e v e n t  Join us as we welcome back to the shop (all the way from Japan) one of our favorite cookbook authors and all around incredible human Nancy Singleton Hachisu!  We are honored to be celebrating JAPAN: The Vegetarian Cookbook. 

  THUR JUN 1 / C O M M U N I T Y  Cook your way through California Soul by Tanya Holland during MAY and drop by with a dish on THUR JUN 1 — all are welcome! It's a potluck party! It's mad civilized! It gives us a monthly dose of hope for the universe!

  WED JUN 7 / a u t h o r  e v e n t  Join us as we welcome back Scotland-based Pakistani writer, cookbook author, and BBC broadcaster Sumayya Usmani to celebrate her memoir ANDAZA: A Memoir of Food, Flavour and Freedom in the Pakistani Kitchen.

 SAT JUN 10 / P O P    U P  Chef, writer, and friend of the shop Kate Ray is popping up and baking for a good cause! Come get a mushroom-based dessert and support an inclusive bakery in Kyiv actively giving away bread on Ukraine's front-line territories.

 WED JUN 21  / a u t h o r    e v e n t  Join us as we welcome wine maker and memoirist Rachel Signer to the shop! Publisher of Pipette Magazine and author of 2021's You Had Me At Pét-Nat, her memoir about natural winemaking was named one of the best wine books of 2021 by the NY Times and, given its release during the pandemic, we are finally getting to celebrate with her and her NY family, friends, and fans. 

 THUR JUN 22 / a u t h o r    e v e n t   *NEW DATE is here! Join us as we welcome an inspiring and sustainable chef, entrepreneur, and now cookbook author Homa Dashtaki to the shop!  The White Moustache Yogurt company founder is here to celebrate her elegant, personal new cookbook Yogurt & Whey: Recipes of an Iranian Immigrant Life. 

  THUR JUN 29 / C O M M U N I T Y    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 Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb and join us IN PERSON in June.

OCT 6 /   I N   P E R S O N   C L A S S  In 3 friggin' hours Paige will teach you how to make killer RAINBOW COOKIES! A hands-on, fun-filled experience that engages all the senses.

  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.

THERE ARE SO MANY MORE EVENTS TO COME THIS SPRING. PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HOSTING A COMMUNITY GROUP or HAVING AN EVENT.

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