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Meaghin Kennedy is a writer and photographer who advocates for a sustainable food system. She lives in Portland, OR.
On one of our very first weekends in Brooklyn (back in November 2009!), we took the 3 train to Park Slope to explore. After browsing Brooklyn Larder, we rounded the corner and spotted Bark (in fact, I even posted about this–see my picture here.). I remember immediately feeling enamored with the place, from the name [...]
Every time we wave goodbye to the maitre d’ and waitresses at Juventino and head back to our apartment, Justin and I take turns remarking: “How did we not come here before moving to Park Slope?” After all, even when we lived in another Brooklyn neighborhood last year, we averaged brunch at Rosewater every other [...]
Exercise: Go outside for an hour and shoot with just one aperture setting. Aperture: 2.8 ISO: 400 Camera: Nikon D5000 Lens: AF-S Nikkor 50mm Where: Carroll Street between 6th Avenue and 7th Avenue, Brooklyn Thoughts: A wide aperture worked well when the camera was pointed away from the sky. With such a wide aperture, the [...]
Quick, what’s the first word that comes into your head when you hear the phrase ‘Southern food’? Is it ‘gravy’, ‘heavy’ or ‘meat’? Southern food has always been grounded in its homeyness and warmth. Recently, a crop of Southern-influenced chefs and restaurants have revitalized the stereotypical cuisine. Re-imagined Southern cooking still maintains its comfort, but [...]
Getting home yesterday was not as calm and leisurely as expected. We trained home from Boston to Manhattan, catching the second to last train out. The train ride was smooth and we even managed to haul our 100 + pounds of luggage and tote bags onto an arriving subway train. The adventure started when we [...]
Despite feeling as if the moving process will never end, we’ve periodically stopped unpacking or working to stretch our legs with walks around our new neighborhood. Though we specifically picked Park Slope as the place we wanted to move (see: favorite brunch spot, farmers’ market, and yoga studio), our quick ventures out have revealed that [...]
We missed the NYC Marathon last year, as it was the weekend before we moved. This year, we subwayed over to Brooklyn’s 4th Avenue, just in time to catch the elite runners rush by at mile 7. They ran as if they were barely working. As one bystander aptly remarked, “If you ever needed visual [...]
Since moving to New York, I’ve become a bit preoccupied with chocolate. We keep a bar in the pantry at all times as our preferred nighttime snack (so far I haven’t noticed any negative weight gain from this…hopefully someone would let me know!?). We tend to alternate between two chocolatiers. Our first choice is Mast [...]
No city does Halloween like New York and its boroughs. Last year, in between our frantic apartment touring (around this time, actually), we paused and enjoyed the stunning Halloween decorations, gourds, and harvest scenes that adorned nearly every brownstone, house, and apartment we walked by. This year, we’re living among these fantastic decorations, and even [...]
In full disclosure, I’ve yet to go to Frankies Spuntino or Prime Meats, though I have been to Café Pedlar numerous times (which should count for something by association!). When moving to Brooklyn was just a twinkle in our eyes, I had already read about (and lusted over) Frankies Spuntino. Lusted over it so much [...]
