Archive for Dessert
Who Makes The Best Red Velvet Cake In Brooklyn?
Last Friday I had the distinct pleasure of being a judge in a Red Velvet Cake competition as part of the Red Show held at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Other judges were Deborah Schwartz, President of the BHS and Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President. The event was sponsored in part by New York Creates.
Read moreSweet Summer’s End
Sweet Melissa Patisserie / Sweet Melissa Cremerie
276 Court St
Brooklyn, NY 11231
(718) 855-3410
www.sweetmelissapatisserie.com
Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer. The real end follows about two weeks later, but for some reason people feel they can’t continue to wear shorts, swim, or eat ice cream after that day. I am not of this belief system. [...]
Uncle Louie G Ices
Uncle Louie G
Various Locations
I don’t have to explain to you the virtues of Uncle Louie G’s on a hot August day such as the three-day heat spell that we are experiencing right now. I stopped by their location on Vanderbilt Street just off of Prospect Park Southwest the other day in need of a [...]
Let me eat cake
Provence en Boite
263 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718-797-0707
www.provenceenboite.com
It’s a typical late breakfast morning — but not quite brunch yet — at Provence en Boite on Smith and Degraw, the ‘French Quarter’ of Carroll Gardens.
Ice Cream, You Scream…Oh, Shut Up!
There was a point last summer when I’d put on a few extra pounds – not necessarily from lack of exercise or an abundance of Dark N Stormy’s (although, I’m sure they were both partially to blame) – but from that fact that by Labor Day I had the lady working the counter at Uncle [...]
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