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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLike cookbooks? Want to help hurricane victims?
http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/struggling-red-hook-businesses-feed-a-cookbook/Struggling Red Hook Businesses Feed a Cookbook
By PETE WELLS
In used bookstores and flea markets, I can never resist flipping through community cookbooks put together by churches, ladies clubs and such. Youve seen them theyre typically typewritten, with hand-drawn paper covers, and theyre bound with a wire spiral or a curled plastic comb.
All Hands on Deck has no binder it is being published on Friday as an e-book but apart from that it has a lot in common with those books. Its editors, Catherine and Zac Overman, approached people around Red Hook, Brooklyn, asking them to give up their best recipes. As in most community cookbooks, theres a story behind each dish.
In this case, though, the story is often the same, because many of the contributors own small businesses in Red Hook that were hurt by Hurricane Sandy. Dry Dock, a wine and spirits shop that lost $50,000 worth of liquid refreshment to the flood waters, shares its manhattan recipe. The Good Fork restaurant, a neighborhood pioneer, gives up the recipe for the pork-and-chive dumplings that everybody ordered there from the day the place opened until it was shut by the storm. (It has not reopened yet.)
There is also the recipe for the finest Irish coffee in the known universe, served at Fort Defiance, and a chicken pupusa covered with pickled cabbage and jalapeños from El Olomega, the Salvadoran food truck that has fueled countless soccer matches at the Red Hook Ball Fields. The editors, the Overmans, were married in Red Hook in October in what Ms. Overman called a real neighborhood affair. They hosted their rehearsal dinner at Fort Defiance, where Mr. Overman tends bar. The ceremony was held on Valentino Pier with music by the Red Hook Ramblers. The band then led the couple and their guests through the streets in a New Orleans-style second-line parade to Sunnys Bar for the reception. The meal was catered by a neighbor of the Overmans, and the desserts were made by a local bakery, Baked.
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.All proceeds from sales of All Hands on Deck will be donated to Restore Red Hook, which provides financial aid to small businesses in the neighborhood recovering from the hurricane. The book is available for download for $15 from http://allhandsondeckredhook.org/
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Like cookbooks? Want to help hurricane victims? (Original Post)
SoCalDem
Dec 2012
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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)1. K&R
thanks for posting.
goclark
(30,404 posts)2. K and R
kentauros
(29,414 posts)3. You might want to cross-post this to C&B
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)4. Thanks.. just did it
I get stuck in GD & forget the other forums
kentauros
(29,414 posts)5. I'll probably order my copy tonight
Some of the recipes sound great, and others I want to compare with my own (like the Flourless Chocolate Torte with my "cake" version.)
I have a friend from the northeast that might like to get a copy as well. She may even know the area