pickle heaven
We pickled 'em good then pickled some more- offering snacks, pickles and pickle making to 120 people over two gloriously sun filled days in the garden at Old Stone House. Folks coming off the Farm City...
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Mushrooms and Moonshine was marvelous. Fantastic everything... the weather (gorgeous after a week of rain), the people and the fungi- I'm almost at a loss of what to write so used am I to finding the...
View ArticleDon't Be a Fry Baby! This Saturday
This Saturday Nov 20thSat Nov 20 in Park Slope Brooklyn Communal Table invites you to explore essential oils as well as the slippery essentialness of oil to our culture. Dip, Sip, Rub and savor the...
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Quick, quick, (one month later...) I better get this blog up about the Fry Baby affair before it's forgotten, (like that BP affair :( this past summer....) Culinary oil, essential oil and oil oil was...
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Last week I went to a workshop in Hoboken to learn how to make this fancy sushi. The top picture is supposed to look like a rose and the squiggly yellow line that outlines the flower was made with a...
View ArticleNew Series: Communal Table Cooking Club
Introducing a new series:Communal Table Cooking ClubOne Sunday afternoon a month we’re scheduling a few hours to just have fun, get messy and take on cooking projects you might otherwise not. We’ll sip...
View ArticleWhat's cooking club
Sunday came and went and we didn't have enough people who'd rsvp'd to 'cooking club' to hold a formal event... but I had already bought stuff for Mole and tamales so I packed up my shopping cart and...
View Articlethe What's Cooking column
Communal Table is wanting to expand our voice in the blogosphere, as we are also working to expand our scope. We've begun taking the steps to incorporate, get insurance, Dept. of Health certifications,...
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Stone Soup Story reading, crafts, and stirring the pot together....An event for adults and kids alike inspired by variations of the folktale -- Stone Soup. Participants encouraged to bring an...
View ArticlePie-a-palooza
Can't quite remember whether pi measures circumference or diameter or if it helps figure out relationships, but I am thinking about shepherd's pie, pizza pie, and my mom's instant graham cracker...
View Articlethe What's Cooking column
Probably the coolest thing I made since the last "What's Cooking" post was apple fruit-leather: un-sweetened apricot applesauce spent 20+ hrs. atop microwave safe plastic-wrap (so it could be easily...
View ArticlePie²+∞♀(and 1 ♂)= ☺+many Kcal's
am still nibbling pie three days later- herbed spinach with olive oil crust, lemon meringue, and then there were the slices distributed round the neighborhood to pay off or conversely, create debt: two...
View ArticleOh, boy, ticket prices reduced to $20
Covered Dish: A Potluck of Ideas is this Wednesday, March 30 6:30PM @ 61 Local Public House in BrooklynTickets have been reduced to $20.00 so get one and come on by!BUY TICKETS HEREBelieve me, it's a...
View ArticleCommunal Table's What's Cooking Club BentoFun
This Sunday April 10 4-7PM in SoHo NYCLunch becomes a composition and a thing of beauty in the Japanese Bento Box. Have some fun with Japanese CharaBen (character bento) and geek out making rice ball...
View ArticleSofrito from the Fesival of Ideas
Here is my Sofrito recipe as promised to the many wonderful passersby at the Festival of Ideas http://www.festivalofideasnyc.com/ where Communal Table joined with FarmCity.us Chautauqua artists for a...
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Diesel trucks carrying men and goodsrumble down the rutted road that runs north/souththrough Gulu and then to Southern Sudan.Shocks are worn, the road is narrow, the traffic is alarming.Listing...
View ArticleHey!!!! We're back....
Communal Table's been on hiatus and Deena and I have moved about in various directions. Deena will have to speak for herself but her year included trips to Japan, and back and forth across the USA, and...
View ArticleMushroom and Moonshine Redux Columbia County Event Sat Oct 27+ Sun Oct 28 2012
It's official! Tickets are on sale for our October event! Come join us as we journey upstate to scenic Columbia County NY to forage fungi, then relax over cocktails as a mycologist helps...
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Henri Matisse, A Vase with Oranges, 1916Oil on canvas, Private CollectionHey Hey Hey... everyone should come to Mushrooms-n Moonshine and I want that to be the blog post y'all see should you land on...
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A CommunalTable Sunday afternoon of Jam making...Jam maker and author Elizabeth Field helped guestsmake jam using a recipefrom her recent book Marmalade.*...
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Come interface at CommunalTable's 12 Bytes a computer musicale. Enjoy a four course interconnected network of small bites, and in between, be enlightened and entertained by computer generated sights,...
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BOOK TKTS. HERE! $55.00Communaltable's Tymbals, Gongs and UltrasoundA private loft in Dumbo, BklynBklyn, NYSaturday May 11 7:00 pm in DUMBO, Bklyn. Address details offered upon purchase.Please join...
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