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Brooklynology Blog

Collected by: Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library

Archived since: Jan, 2019

Description:

Brooklynology is the blog of the Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library's local history division and archive.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Arts & Humanities Society & Culture

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Title: Recipes from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Thanksgiving Menu

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2008/11/20/recipes-brooklyn-daily/

Description: Recipes from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle,  Food ,  Holidays

Title: Brooklyn Menus

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/01/29/brooklyn-menus/

Description: Menus in the Brooklyn Collection's Ephemera Collection.

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Subject:   Ephemera Collection,  Food

Title: We don't serve bread with one fish ball

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/04/09/we-dont-serve-bread-one/

Description: Brooklyn's restaurant scene in the 19th century and today.

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Subject:   Food

Title: America's Favorite Spokescow

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/04/12/americas-favorite/

Description: Elsie the Cow, the world famous mascot for Borden Milk Products.

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Subject:   Food ,  Animals

Title: I Knight Thee, Sir Hot Dog

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/05/13/i-knight-thee-sir-hot-dog/

Description: A 1939 visit from the King and Queen of England during which President Roosevelt served them hot dogs at a barbecue and the resulting hot dog tributes nationwide and in Coney Island.

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Subject:   Food ,  Coney Island

Title: Of Strawberries

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/07/30/strawberries/

Description: Recreating a strawberry shortcake recipe from the Brooklyn Eagle.

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Subject:   Food

Title: Making life easier for the Brooklyn housewife (and househusband)

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/11/24/making-life-easier/

Description: Domestic life in midcentury Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Women,  Food

Title: After Thanksgiving

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/12/02/after-thanksgiving/

Description: Thanksgiving photos from the Brooklyn Eagle.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle,  Food ,  Holidays

Title: Brooklyn: How Sweet It Is!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/02/18/brooklyn-how-sweet-it/

Description: The history of candymaking in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Food ,  Industry

Title: That's Using your Noodle

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/03/17/thats-using-your-noodle/

Description: The history of pasta manufacturing in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Food ,  Industry

Title: The Borough of Homes and... Oysters?

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/06/24/borough-homes-and-oysters/

Description: The history of the oyster business in Brooklyn

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Subject:   Food ,  Industry

Title: Vegetarians vs Meat Eaters

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/07/27/vegetarians-vs-meat/

Description: The history of vegetarianism in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Food

Title: Ephemera #1: Locks, Olives, and Hats

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/08/31/ephemera-1-locks-olives/

Description: Images of olives, locks, and hats from the Business & Industry section of the Ephemera Collection.

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Subject:   Ephemera Collection Industry,  Food

Title: Little-Known Brooklyn Businesses. S. Gumpert & Co.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/09/22/little-known-brooklyn/

Description: S. Gumpert & Co., a food manufacturer at Bush Terminal.

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Subject:   Industry,  Food

Title: Found in the Morgue: Efforts to Elevate the Humble Doughnut

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/09/30/found-morgue-efforts/

Description: Midcentury Brooklyn efforts to promote the consumption of donuts, as documented in the Brooklyn Eagle morgue.

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Subject:   Food

Title: Move over Costco

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/10/08/move-over-costco/

Description: A membership grocery club in Brooklyn in the 1940s at Boris Edelman's Gertzog dairy and grocery store in Sheepshead Bay.

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Subject:   Food

Title: Everything Bagel

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/11/02/everything-bagel/

Description: Some history of bagel making in Brooklyn, including a bakery strike and the short film Hot Bagels starring baker Marty Rosenblatt.

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Subject:   Food ,  Film

Title: Wild About Maison Foffe

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/11/04/wild-about-maison-foffe/

Description: The story of Maison Foffe, a restaurant in Brooklyn Heights owned by Alfred Foffe.

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Subject:   Food ,  Brooklyn Heights

Title: Apple Pie

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/11/24/apple-pie/

Description: Vintage apple pie recipes and information from Brooklyn sources.

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Subject:   Food ,  Beecher, Henry Ward

Title: Gimme Coffee!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/13/gimme-coffee/

Description: History of the coffee industry in Brooklyn, particularly the Dannemiller Coffee Company.

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Subject:   Food ,  Industry

Title: Big Appetites, Little Pizzas

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/03/big-appetites-little/

Description: One of the first frozen pizza manufacturers, the Petite Foods Corporation, and their mini pizzas, made in Brooklyn and documented by the Brooklyn Eagle.

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Subject:   Food

Title: When the Boro's Milk Vanished

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/11/when-boros-milk-vanished/

Description: A strike among dairy workers causes a milk shortage.

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Subject:   Food ,  Industry Labor

Title: Days of Wine and Onions: Garrett & Co and Virginia Dare

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/02/22/days-wine-and-onions/

Description: Garrett & Co, makers of Virginia Dare wine and flavoring extracts at Brooklyn's Bush Terminal.

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Subject:   Food ,  Industry

Title: How sweet it was...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/05/how-sweet-it-was/

Description: Sugar refining in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Food ,  Industry

Title: The Eagle Cookbook and the Brooklyn Diet

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/23/eagle-cookbook-and/

Description: The Eagle Cookbook's recipes and advertisements and what they say about diets in Brooklyn in the 1920s.

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Subject:   Food

Title: A Day to Give Thanks

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/18/day-give-thanks/

Description: Vintage Thanksgiving materials from the Brooklyn Collection, including recipes.

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Subject:   Holidays,  Food

Title: It's what's for dinner

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/12/02/its-whats-dinner/

Description: A postwar meat shortage's effects in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Industry,  Food

Title: The New Brooklyn Cookbook: Author Talk with Melissa Vaughan and Michael Harlan Turkell, Wednesday, J

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/01/19/new-brooklyn-cookbook/

Description: A talk with author Melissa Vaughan and photographer Michael Harlan Turkell on The New Brooklyn Cookbook.

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Subject:   Events,  Food

Title: Philip's of Coney Island

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/08/08/philips-coney-island/

Description: The history of Philip's Candy Store in Coney Island.

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Subject:   Coney Island,  Food

Title: Stranger than Turkey

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/11/19/stranger-turkey/

Description: Vintage recipes from the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Holidays,  Food

Title: Author Talk: The History of Pizza, Wednesday, April 30th 7pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/04/29/author-talk-history-pizza/

Description: A talk on the history of pizza with Scott Wiener, author of "Viva La Pizza! The art of the pizza box."

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Subject:   Events,  Food

Title: Knish Knosh

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/05/23/knish-knosh/

Description: Author talk with Laura Silver, author of "Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food."

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Subject:   Food ,  Events

Title: When Brooklyn Was Briney

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/04/07/when-brooklyn-was-briney/

Description: The Mawer-Gulden-Annis olive packing company at Bush Terminal.

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Subject:   Food ,  Industry

Title: The Garden of Damascus in the Heart of Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/06/16/garden-damascus-heart/

Description: An overview of Arab-American history in New York City.

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Subject:   Food ,  Religion Immigration

Title: Teaching with Primary Sources: Food in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2019/09/06/teaching-primary-sources/

Description: Exploring food history in Brooklyn with the Teaching with Primary Sources series by Brooklyn Connections.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections Teaching with Primary Sources,  Food

Title: Teaching with Primary Sources: History Mystery!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2019/11/20/teaching-primary-sources/

Description: Preparing a "history mystery" for students as part of the Brooklyn Connections series on Teaching with Primary Sources. The example given uses food history and is inspired by the Brooklyn Collection exhibit "Food Fit For Kings County."

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections Teaching with Primary Sources,  Food ,  Exhibits

Title: Macaroni-Making Machine

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/01/10/macaroni-making-machine/

Description: This photograph from circa 1932 shows an "Automatic Short Paste Drying Unit," which promised pasta-making "From Press to Package without Handling." The machine itself was manufactured by the Consolidated Macaroni Machine Corporation at 156-166 Sixth Street in Gowanus.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Food ,  Industry Gowanus

Title: Hot Dog Days

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/08/08/hot-dog-days/

Description: It's the dog days of summer here in Brooklyn, a perfect time to head down to Coney Island and enjoy a hot dog on the boardwalk. This coat of arms honoring the 50th anniversary of the hot dog in 1939 shows a royal figure knighting a kneeling hot dog in the center.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Coney Island,  Food

Title: Brooklyn's Mechanical Milkman

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/01/30/brooklyns-mechanical/

Description: The Clinton Hill Apartments became the testing site for the charmingly retro-futuristic “mechanical milkman,” which claimed to save women from “braving Winter winds” by supplying “refrigerated quart containers of milk right in their apartment lobbies” for 22 cents.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Food ,  Science

Title: Soup Season: The Syrian-Jewish Edition

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/02/06/soup-season-syrian-jewish/

Description: Today's Photo of the Week comes from our Brooklyn Jewish History Project. This is Fritzie Abadi (Hidary) on a Syrian cooking day, testing her recipe.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Food ,  Jewish history

Title: Olives on the Avenue

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/05/08/olives-avenue/

Description: Today's Photo of the Week takes us to a Brooklyn institution, Sahadi's on Atlantic Avenue.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Food

Title: National Pasta Day

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/10/16/national-pasta-day

Description: If you lived in Brooklyn in 1917, there’s a chance your macaroni was produced by a machine made in the I. Defrancisci & Son Macaroni Machines factory, located at 219 Morgan Avenue. Today’s Photo of the Week shows the factory and employees, including Joseph and Ignazio DeFrancisci.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Food ,  Industry

Title: Railfan Sandwich Man's Loco-Motive to Increase Business

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2024/02/21/railfan-sandwich-mans

Description: This Photo of the Week shows one inventive owner’s novel idea to boost his business.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Food

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