This piece from The New York Daily News on our current exhibition, Keep Your Eye On The Donut, includes lots of drool-worthy donut pics!
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NY Times: “A Sweet History” At The City Reliquary
The Times Weekend Miser waxes nostalgic after seeing Keep Your Eye On the Donut. Also check out the write-up on Jon Lovitch’s Gingerbread Lane at the New York Hall of Science!
A version of this article appears in print on January 10, 2014, on page C34 of the New York edition with the headline: A Sweet History: Doughnuts in New York City.
“Keep Your Eye Upon the Donut” In The Brooklyn Paper!
This coverage of our current exhibition (Keep Your Eye On the Donut, curated by Julie Thomson) from The Brooklyn Paper is so very sweet (har-har). Check it out!
Holiday Pop-Up Shop
Looking for tasty, totally unique, and shamelessly local gifts this holiday season? Or just hungry for something different in Williamsburg?
Visit our Holiday Pop-Up Shop, featuring Better Off Spread, Fatty Cakes NY and The Jam Stand – independent minded, deliciously creative local food makers.
Open: November 15, 2013 through 2013 during the Reliquary’s usual hours.
Expect artisan foodie parties and special tastings to be announced throughout November and December!
MEET THE MAKERS:
Better Off Spread is the brainchild of Jenny & Jonny, a couple from Brooklyn with a dream of channeling their crazy into a spreadable empire. Jenny got her start in the city over a decade ago (making peanut butter- NO JOKE) at a West Village cafe. After many (lame) years in the ad world, she’s getting back to her nut-grinding roots. Jonny worked at his family’s Italian food store on Long Island since he was a punk-ass teen, until moving to Brooklyn and becoming a barber. Their spreads are always made with the best ingredients they can find, and they don’t add any oils, fats, preservatives or sugars to them, just natural ingredients combined to make freaking awesome flavors. Better Off Spreads are hand made in Brooklyn, using organic, GMO-free nuts. Many of them are vegan and gluten-free and straight up good for you!
https://twitter.com/BetterOffSpread
https://www.facebook.com/betteroffspread
FattyCakesNY makes ridiculous cookies! Owner and baker Jennifer Taylor-Miller started out in 2009 making cookies with unusual ingredients as an experiment. Now over 70 flavors in, FCNY serves up a rotating roster of unique cookies, including The Movie Theater, with chocolate chips, popcorn and gummy fish; The Chipwich, a salted chocolate chip cookie sandwich with beer caramel & vanilla cream; The Drunken Piglet, a maple cookie with bourbon bacon brittle, beer caramel, and maple brown sugar sea salt; and the Smashed Pumpkin, a molasses spice cookie with Sailor Jerry rum & pumpkin cream filling. Seasonal specials and limited edition flavors using The Jam Stand jam and Better Off Spread spreads will be in the house!
Tweets by FattyCakesNY
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The Jam Stand isn’t just another artisan food company; it’s an experiment in positive engineering. Founded in an apartment kitchen in Williamsburg by two best friends -Jessica Quon and Sabrina Valle – The Jam Stand has become a staple in artisan groceries, specialty and gift stores in NYC and beyond! Using fresh fruit sourced from local farms, the products are based on a belief that packaged food doesn’t have to mean processed food. Check out some of their most iconic jam flavors: Not Just Peachy, Sriracha, Drunken Monkey & You’re My Boy BLUE-berry Bourbon.
Tweets by thejamstand
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Bakelicious Brooklyn
New exhibit opens October 6 at 2pm during The Sugar Sweets Festival
On view October – December
Six Brooklyn Bakers Share Their Secrets! A multi-sensory, interactive look at the recipes and lives of six local Brooklynites. From a Syrian master of Baklava to a young playwright/”experimental baker,” Bakelicious Brooklyn is a fond, fun tribute to our borough’s creativity and love of cooking.
Meet the bakers and taste their treats at 2pm on October 6!
Exhibit Design by Dan Schnur
Graphic Design by Rebecca Seltzer
Research & Writing by Judy Vannais
Sponsored by TancilTown Media
Greetings From The City of New York
A New Show in the Back Room Of the City Reliquary!
February 15th – April 28th 2013
Opening Reception Friday Feb 15th
6-9pm, FREE! Donation appreciated.
At the City Reliquary, 370 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn Beer Available for donation
Wish you were here? You dont have to wish, you can simply stroll into the back-room of Brooklyn’s Community Museum, the City Reliquary, to envision a picturesque time-gone-by! Starting Friday, February 15th, we are proud to present a plethora of picture postcards from the collection of Lon Black, each one reversing the clock to the turn of the 20th century.
The subject of Greetings From The City of New York is postcards with views of New York City from the Undivided Back Era.
As soon as they were invented, picture postcards became an extraordinarily popular form of communication. They were quickly delivered by an efficient postal service and city dwellers had multiple mail deliveries (up to 9 separate trips per day in Manhattan!) six days a week (never on Sundays.) Without the ubiquity of telephones, postcards were the next best thing.
But there was a bonus benefit to communicating by postcard: the sender would be providing the receipient with a picture that they would cherish and add to their postcard collection. Such a lucky relative or friend would probably display their collection in postcard albums specially designed and manufactured to display these 3-1/2 by 5-1/2 inch cards. It was a picture postcard cottage industry.
In these early postcard years, the USPS wouldn’t deliver any cards with ANY information on the verso side (reserved for the recipient’s info) other than the name and address. Therefore, many messages were craftily composed on the front side (the image side.) Postcard publishers usually left some white space for nascent authors to do this. But these scribbling Dostoyevskys might also write in any light-colored area of the image; in the sky, for instance.
On March 1, 1907, the United States Post Office cut the public some slack and began allowing postcard writers to write on the back. Thus began the Divided Back Era, so named because a vertical line was printed down the center of the verso (back) of each card. So it continues today.
The exhibit is curated by Lon Black whose interest in postcards began in his early teens. All the postcards featured in the exhibit are from his personal collection. He started collecting New York City views after moving here 32 years ago. Always looking for the unusual or rare postcard, his focus was acquiring images he had never seen. But in the past several years, he has paid more attention to the words or pictures that people wrote on the images of the undivided back cards.
Selected for this show are New York City postcards with messages that refer to the picture and/or express a sentiment about the City. Some are humorous. Some are evocative. The marriage of the message and picture can animate the postcards with personality. Some can inspire the imagination and elicit an emotional charge. They are nothing less than a ticket to a time traveling experience.
Reliquarian Relief
The City Reliquary Museum will be accepting donations of all kinds this weekend from 12:00-6:00 PM at 370 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer St. in Williamsburgh. Useful items include: extension cords, batteries, candles, blankets, electric heaters, gas cans, chainsaws, rope, gloves, refuse bags, etc.
All materials will be brought directly to the front lines of the relief efforts in Breezy Point, Rockaways, and Staten Island.
The Red Cross is accepting cash donations at the City Reliquary. We can issue a tax-deductible receipt for donations.
We will be organizing a group of hands-on volunteers to participate in cleanup efforts on Monday, November 5th at 11:00 AM meeting at the City Reliquary Museum, 370 Metropolitan Ave.
To participate in the hands-on volunteer efforts, please email vollies(at)cityreliquary.org to secure transportation if needed.
Please pass this information on to a friend. As the Brooklyn motto goes, “In Unity, There Is Strength”.
NY Times On Embee Sunshade Show!
Today’s Times has a short piece on our current exhibition, Embee Sunshade Co.: An Iconic Legacy, Locally Made. We’re so glad that people are spreading the word about this amazing show!
Volunteer at the City Reliquary!
The City Reliquary is looking for a few good men and women to help us staff the museum, support public programs and events, or take the lead on special projects of your choosing.
Love New York City? Think our museum is the bee’s knees? Have a high tolerance for people who use phrases like “bee’s knees”? Click on over to our volunteer page to learn more about who and what we’re looking for.
Show-and-Tell Stages 1st-Anniversary Show on Nov. 17th!
Open Mic Show-and-Tell, hosted by Paul Lukas, returns to the City Reliquary on November 17th. This show will mark a solid year of showing and telling since the monthly series began last year.
Open Mic Show-and-Tell is exactly what it sounds like: Anyone can bring an object of personal significance and talk about it for up to three minutes. No theme, no agenda — interesting stuff and the stories behind them are their own reward.
Objects that were featured last time included a very old photo album, a wedding band made from gold that had been mined from a very special mine in Australia, and two wisdom teeth.
But as always, Show-and-Tell isn’t about the objects — it’s about the stories. Look in your pocket or purse — there’s probably good show-and-tell fodder there, whether you realize it or not.
You can either (a) bring an object and be prepared to talk about it, or (b) just be part of the audience (because you can’t have show-and-tell unless there are people on hand to be shown and told). HOWEVER, lately we’ve had more folks who only want to watch, without participating. C’mon, people — it’s better to give than to receive, remember? Of course you do.
The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn
L train to Lorimer Avenue Station
Doors and sign-ups at 7p; showing/telling commences at 8p
$5 suggested donation; beer available for sale
http://www.cityreliquary.org/
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