Brokelyn

Kids everywhere are tasting the return of education next week and not liking it one bit. But maybe a little Sunday school will sweeten the deal? This Sunday, Sept. 5, is the first of three September Read & Eat Sundays at Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Greenpoint. To kick off the free series (with tastings) this weekend, Brooklyn food writer and chef Cathy Erway will share her favorite end-of summer recipes with produce picked right there on the rooftop. Then the series continues on Sept. 19 with Anna Lappe (whose adult-sized samples of locally-grown infant food have us more than slightly curious) and finishes on Sept. 26 with professor and NY-food expert Annie Hauwk-Lawson. Read the rest of this entry »

Freelance Whales, tomorrow's BBQ Blowout DJs

You know, we were just thinking how awesome it would be to spend the summer at DJ’d parties sampling bbq recipes from Brooklyn’s top foodies. And, wait… wait… oh, look at that, there goes the iPod case. Tomorrow night, Jun. 16, at Good Company in Williamsburg, food blogger Cathy Erway and the chefs of Mrs. Kim’s will be grilling the meat for the summer’s second BBQ Blowout. The series of DJ’d bbq fests, presented by Finger on the Pulse and NY Mag, runs through August with four more nights of food from Fatty Cue, Sam Mason, Mile End Delicatessen and Frankies Spuntino (and a new DJ each night too). But tomorrow, the show’s all Erway and Freelance Whales. Plates are $5 and the rest of the night’s free, including iPhone and iPod cases from co-sponsor Incase. Food at 7, party til 11.

Good Company, 10 Hope St., between Roebling and Havemeyer, Williamsburg

Cathy Erway. Photo by Amber Marlow Blatt

Brooklyn may be on the verge of its annual 10-day restaurant fest/dining-out extravaganza, but not eating out is a pretty big part of the borough’s foodie ethos too–Crown Heights food blogger Cathy Erway made her name from it. In September 2006, Erway, up to then a frequent restaurant-goer, became fed up with the expense of restaurant dinners and the sameness of the weekday, store-bought sandwiches. So she gave them up: Anything that went into her mouth, Erway was going to make herself.

And so was born Not Eating Out in New York, a popular blog. Then came a radio show on “food, dating and everything in-between,” and now a memoir about her two-year experiment. (She returned to the world of restaurants in 2008, but not like before). We asked Cathy, 28, what we should make for dinner tonight with only $5, and a few other questions. Read the rest of this entry »