Tasting outside of Tom's Restuarant & at Greene Grape Provisions!

Come out and taste some Brooklyn Fudge and meet me this weekend!

I'll be giving out samples to anybody standing in the line for Tom's Restaurant (782 Washington Avenue, between Sterling and St. John's) from 10 to 4 on Saturday. So in addition to the wonderful hospitality you already get from Tom's, and the coffee and orange slices and suckers they give out to the line....this week we're throwing in some Brooklyn Fudge! I'll be wearing my "make fudge not war" or "FUDGEtaboutit" t-shirt as I do everyday..... (Thankfully I have more than one of each). If you want one of your own, you can pick one up at the Shaz Gallery at 790 Washington Avenue. They sure get a lot of attention, if you're into that. People yell at me across the subway platform to tell me how much they like it. I'll be giving out coupons for them outside of Tom's so you can get a discount.

Another great reason to come to Prospect Heights this Saturday is because this is the Brooklyn Museum's First Saturday (you get in free). Don't get that Sunday morning regret, like so many of us get.......oh, man, I forgot about First Saturday again! Don't do it.....just get up, take a shower.....Don't worry about a clean shirt.....just come on down, and get in line, try some fudge, have an orange slice, some coffee.....somebody will hold your place in line while you go next door to Shaz's to get a new shirt.....go to Tom's, have a mango walnut pancake.....and then you come out feeling good and looking spiffy....and off you go to the Brooklyn Museum.....for free!

On Sunday, I'll be doing a tasting at the new Greene Grape Provisions Store at 753 Fulton (at the Corner of South Portland in Ft. Greene) from 12:00 - 2:00/whenever. At last we have an alternative to Bravo and Pathmark in Ft. Greene! I nearly lost my mind last night at Pathmark, which is a common experience..... I needed a cookie cutter at 9pm at night....so I was forced to go there.....in the process, I decided I had to have a marshmallow heart peep.....and a several $7.99 CDs and DVDs.....of course the marshmallow peep would not scan, although it clearly had a UPC code.....They checker told me it was part of a pack. I told her that was impossible because there were 100 next to it. She did a series of price checks. Most people would have given up and said forget it. Not me. I said, listen.....I've had to walk a long way to get here, and I am not leaving this store without that peep. You can charge me for the whole pack if you think it's individually wrapped......I'm not leaving this store until you sell me that peep. After a several more minutes and several more Pathmark personnel got involved, they collectively came to the conclusion that it was 49 cents.

Thank God Greene Grape Provisions is here....not necessarily as a heart peep source.....but I would never be pushed to the point that I would require a peep to cancel out the stress of shopping there. It's a gorgeous store!

Come see me there on Superbowl Sunday! (I know I erroneously reported that the Superbowl was last week on this blog. Hopefully you all have another Sports News Source than me. Those of us who spend most of our time thinking about cooking don't always keep track of sports so well......except for the food aspect of it.)