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Meaghin Kennedy is a writer and photographer who advocates for a sustainable food system. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
When I was in the kitchen with Alison and Michael of Butter + Love, I watched the entire process of jam cookie creation. I wasn’t able to stay long enough to see their quirky mustache cookies come to life, so a few weekends ago when my mother-in-law was in town, we made a special trip [...]
We took a day trip this weekend with our end destination determined, but no other parts of the day fleshed out. A gorgeous drive to Grazin’ in Hudson, New York, offered more offshoots for little adventures than our meager Zipcar allowance could allow. Why Grazin’, you ask? Many New Yorkers frequent Grazin’ Angus Acres farm [...]
Because I spent three hours with Alison and Michael of Butter + Love, I came home with more pictures than I was able to share in the original article. I stayed for the entire process, from breaking eggs and mixing dough, to stamping out the shapes and baking the cookies, to the final stages of [...]
A girl from a large, close-knit Kansas family graduates high school and moves East. After a year at Boston University, she packs her bags and moves to New York City to pursue a life on the stage. Thirteen years, multiple apartments, and numerous plays later, you find her in Brooklyn, juggling a wholesale bakery while [...]
On Monday, I spent three hours in a Sunset Park industrial kitchen with Alison Walla of Butter + Love. Along with her boyfriend Michael Phillips, Alison bakes whimsical shortbread and butter cookies, in many cases using well-loved and tested family recipes. I’m eager to elaborate about Butter + Love and share my photographs of Alison [...]
By the numbers Total bags ground and prepared: 57 Most caffeinated month: July, with 7 bags Top Roasters: Stumptown: 15 bags Cafe Grumpy: 14 bags Joe: 7 bags Roasters’ Locations: Brooklyn, San Jose, Chicago, Portland, Copenhagen, Durham, Grand Rapids, Upland, San Francisco Repetitive February: Of the five bags we drank, four of them were Ethiopian. [...]
My dad is a therapist to troubled adolescent boys, and a good one at that. He’s worked at Timber Ridge School for the past 22 years–the only job he’s had since our family moved from South Carolina to Virginia. I can see how impactful his work is when I’m flipping through images on his camera. [...]
I’ll always remember last year’s Christmas as that Christmas–the one I never want to repeat; the one where I felt ridiculously sick while tromping through an actual blizzard only to become snowed-in due to a Sanitation Workers’ strike. I’ll remember this year’s Christmas as the year things got back on track. We spent time with [...]
Don’t you hate it when your favorite television show surprises you with a sneaky ‘clips’ episode, in which the writers use a subpar story line to weave together the season’s funniest or most heartfelt moments? I’m always annoyed by the lack of new content and skip those episodes. Ironically, I’m about to do the same [...]
Justin and I spent last weekend in Baltimore visiting several of our friends. We had such a fun time seeing Baltimore through their eyes: wandering around Hampden, sampling some fantastic Madcap coffee at Spro, dining at Woodberry Kitchen (two tables down from hometown hero Cal Ripken), and enjoying beers at The Brewer’s Art. For part [...]
