Park Slope Reader

Features

A NEW DINING DESTINATION

by Bianca Jordan

A guide to the state of dining in Park Slope: a special look at 4th Avenue, Manhattan influence, tried-and-true establishments, healthy dining, and more.

EATING LOCAL, EATING GLOBAL

by Leah Koenig

Talking with Chef Cheryl Smith of Cheryl’s Global Soul restaurant.

WHAT’S COOKIN’ IN BROOKLYN

by Shani Friedman

Featuring local cupcake enthusiast, three time author and cable access tv host, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, and Chef/Owner Jacques Gauthier of Palo Santo on his recent cooking class with 4th graders.

Columns

[THE NEW WAVE 23]

Green : The New Sexy

by Lisa Dowda

We look at the continuing big wave of newbusinesses opening their doors in Park Slope this new year.

[COMMUNITY]

Pumpkin’s Organic Market...slow shopping at its finest

by Helen Newman

A look at Pumpkin’s Organic Market, where grocers and customers go beyond the norm to find ways to reduce our global impact.

[DISPATCHES FROM BABYVILLE]

Preschool Jitters

by Nicole Caccavo Kear

Mother and son prep for the first day of school.

[BEINHART]

Winter Reading

by Catherine Bohne

Journey with the owner of the Community Bookstore and her dear friend, Mr. Limulus through the latest book reviews: Castle Gripsholm, The Palace of Illusions, and Island of the Lost.

How to account for the transfigured, the unrecoverable? This issue we bring you “The Hive,” the final unpublished poem of Ciaran Berry’s forthcoming collection The Sphere of Birds. The Park Slope Reader Poetry Page.