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Meaghin Kennedy is a writer and photographer who advocates for a sustainable food system. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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 [...]
On the steaming hot Friday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend, I subway-ed to The Entrepreneur Space, an industrial kitchen in Queens, to watch Rachel Gladfelter bring apple and chocolate cream pies to life. I’d first tried Rachel’s Pies at the inaugural Fort Greene Brooklyn Flea of the summer. Despite the pies’ appeal, I was too [...]
When Nils Wessell, the one-man woodworker/proprietor/owner of Brooklyn Butcher Blocks agreed to meet me at ‘the pie shop’, there was no confusion as to which pie shop he meant: Gowanus’ Four and Twenty Blackbirds—THE pie shop, at least in our opinions. The selection of pies at this Brooklyn gem varies depending on the day, hour, [...]
Allow me to introduce you to one of my favorite series of items I’ve seen this year: Claudia Pearson’s seasonal collection of towels, calendars, and prints. Born in England and trained as a graphic designer, Claudia moved to New York in 1994 to work as an illustrator. Over these past sixteen years, Claudia has illustrated [...]
My first time exploring Etsy was also the first time I noticed Bailey Doesn’t Bark. Several years ago, when Etsy was brand new, I could disappear into the site for hours. Without realizing it, I’d have spent two hours clicking and bookmarking and saving and ordering. In the beginning, I didn’t know any artists or [...]
