With Love, From Brooklyn's Dara Furlow at General Assembly's Artisan Showcase If you aren't already aware of it, General Assembly, is an amazing tech mecca in the Flatiron District, which serves as a co-working space, business incubator, and education center for NYC's aspiring start-up community.  Last week they hosted a special week of programming called Handmade: Artisan Week, featuring...
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  Alison of Butter + Love in one of the kitchens at Hana Pastries in Sunset Park. Photo by Clay Williams As part of my Food/Work photo project, I have been documenting the labor that goes into so much of the great food we have in New York. Recently, the project took me to Hana...
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"Snow Escape" taken in Bed-Stuy by Clay Williams. Remember snow?  I'll admit, I've never been a fan of the frigid New York winters. Still, when that groundhog in Punxatawny reported that we'd be getting six more weeks of winter, I had to chuckle. What winter? Just in case you've forgotten what winter in Brooklyn is...
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It’s been a huge week here at WLFB HQ. We are all a-tingle in anticipation of V-Day. Between shipping out gifts, filling corporate orders, and hosting our Hot & Bothered event, we barely had time to breathe (yet somehow managed to consume copious amounts of chocolate).  We were fortunate to get some serious love from...
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 The Brooklyn Love Building, Fort Greene. Photo by Clay Williams. Valentine's Day is just a few days away, but in Brooklyn, it's always time to spread love. Thanks to the good folks at Habana Outpost for the reminder.
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Call it a Hallmark holiday if you like, but we take Valentine's Day very seriously here at With Love, From Brooklyn. That's why we were thrilled when the fabulous Nichelle Stephens, editor of Cupcakes Take the Cake and a WLFB Tasting Panel member, agreed to curate a gift set for Valentine's Day. She decided to...
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Welcome to Brooklyn Love Letter, a new weekly feature on the With Love From Brooklyn blog. My name is Clay Williams, I'm a photographer and blogger and am well into my third decade as a Brooklynite. Since studying photography in high school, I've enjoyed using my camera to capture my personal sense of Brooklyn.  Each...
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Launching With Love, From Brooklyn has been an epic journey and a labor of love. As a long-time Brooklynite, trained chef, and ardent foodie, I’ve admired the moxie of the artisans and visionaries who are transforming the way we eat in Brooklyn and beyond. Until now I’ve stood on the sidelines, with a grapefruit-jalapeño soda...
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In the last several years, bicycles have exploded across the borough as a means of transportation as well as a source of fun. Ryan Patrick, proprietor of Brooklyn Cruiser, a new line of urban cycles designed here in Kings County, has a deep love of the “city bike.” Noticing the proliferation of bike lanes, shops,...
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Chris Woehrle and Robert Stout are the kings of jerky here in Brooklyn. Obsessed with quality and wholesomeness, they use only pasture-raised, grass-fed, and locally sourced beef from a farm an hour and a half outside the city. They trim, slice, marinate, and smoke this high-quality meat in an industrial kitchen space, transforming it into a...
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Brownies, blondies, and cupcakes, oh my! There are few better places in this great borough to score a cutting-edge confection than at Red Hook’s Baked. Founded in 2005 by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito, two former admen eager to drop out of the rat race, Baked is a neighborhood spot fast on its way to...
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Kelly Geary’s Sweet Deliverance is a new way to think about fresh meals, cooked from scratch. A 16-year veteran of the professional kitchen and graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts, Kelly has transformed her love of cooking local, seasonal American cuisine into an indulgent, yet healthy, meal delivery service.  As...
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It’s a simple story, really. One day, Michelle Lewis made a cheesecake. To accompany it she made caramel sauce. She had sauce left over and passed it on to a friend. Her friend raved about it and a business was born. Michelle, after some flavor fine-tuning and ingredient adjustments, was inspired to make caramel sauce...
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This “duo of flavor fanatics,” as Przemek Adolf and Monika Luczak describe themselves, is obsessed with farm-fresh ingredients and it shows. Their seasonal, local line of artisanal sauces and chutneys is a hit thanks to the vibrant food culture that’s alive and well in Brooklyn. An important part of their mission is to inspire people to...
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Photo credit: Winona Barton-Ballentine Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin’s friendship, forged in a food-lovers book club, was strengthened in the kitchen. Inspired by their shared Eastern European backgrounds and the cooking traditions they learned from a young age, the duo began producing treats for weddings, birthdays, and other special events. The feedback was so gushingly enthusiastic that...
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Husband and wife team Justine Pringle and Andy Laird’s Nunu Chocolates have been hailed by the likes of Martha Stewart and Gourmet magazine as some of the finest, most irresistible artisanal treats around. But these wee caramels and ganaches have somewhat humble origins. One day, Andy, a musician, was brainstorming with Justine about out-of-the-ordinary merchandise...
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Morris Kitchen’s transcendent ginger syrup evokes all the best elements of cold-weather flavors. Starting small, super sibling duo Kari and Tyler Morris set out to elevate food to a fine art with their private supper club. Kari and Tyler felt compelled to translate their hard work into a tangible item that could live on in...
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Alex Crosier has granola-making down to a science. Obsessed with striking the perfect balance of sweet and savory––which she believes is key to achieving the best flavor––Alex has created some of the most exciting taste combinations around. Activation Energy, a buzzworthy blend of coffee, chocolate, and hazelnuts, will get you going on dark winter mornings;...
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See that cute pigeon in our logo? It came straight from the pen of Claudia Pearson, our fave Brooklyn illustrator. This London native, who has called New York home since 1994, lives in Brooklyn with her groovy husband and two gorgeous sons. Her vivid designs depict her passions––eating seasonally, the joys of cooking, her enthusiasm...
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“Everybody was doing chocolate, but we wanted to do something that wouldn’t spoil,” explains Daniel Mowles, one of the minds behind Brooklyn Hard Candy. “We realized there wasn’t anyone doing hard candy, so we did some research, and before we knew it, we it had a glass jar in front of us with a cork...
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Shout it from the rooftops: the vegetables up there are delicious, seasonal, and, about as local you can get. That’s how they roll at Brooklyn Grange, a one-acre commercial organic farm located on one of Gotham’s loveliest rooftops in Long Island City, Queens.  Yep, a farm called Brooklyn Grange just so happens to be located...
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Chef Ross Hutchison readily admits he made a mistake. Attempting to make bacon one day, he got distracted and left it on too long. In an attempt to salvage the smoky strips, the Houston native began to tinker with it, and proceeded to make a “sticky, gooey, burnt, bacony mess.” What now? Throw it in...
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This local small-batch coffee roaster isn’t just a Brooklyn business; it’s a family business. The three brothers of Brewklyn Grind, South Brooklyn natives Craig, Alain, and James, began home-roasting their specially selected beans in 2003, but it wasn’t until 2008 that they made the big entrepreneurial leap.  You may recall that 2008 was a particularly...
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“Anarchy is freedom from food tyranny,” Sounds intense, right? Anarchy in a Jar is the jam that’s revolutionizing the food system. Since 2009, Laena McCarthy has churned out jams, jellies, marmalades, chutneys, and pickled fruits in small batches from an artisanal jam workspace here in Brooklyn.  A native of upstate New York, Laena learned the...
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Whimsy & Spice is a real Mom-and-Pop business, Brooklyn-style. Since 2008, Jenna Park and Mark Sopchak, a husband and wife team, have combined their 14 years of experience in graphic design (Jenna) and culinary arts (Mark) to create this well-loved brand of handmade sweets. First known for their marshmallows with inventive flavors like caramel, cardamom,...
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Anna Gordon from The Good Batch; photo credit: Jill Harrison Stroopwafel? What’s that, then? Wikipedia explains that a stroopwafel is “a waffle made from two thin layers of baked batter with a caramel-like syrup filling in the middle, first made in Gouda in the Netherlands.” But to Anna Gordon of The Good Batch, stroopwafels are...
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