Plus a revival of sunny, stackable Hellerware! ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏͏͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
| | | | I’m writing you from near the beach in Long Island. Every August, our family, my husband’s siblings, their kids, and various noisy family dogs pile into a house we share in the town of Wainscott. During the day, the kids go to the beach while the adults jostle for places to work. At night, we gather for a group dinner rooted in produce from local farm stands. Above is a snapshot of the latest haul.
Some Food52 Happenings: | | | | | | - Paul Hagopian dove into the archives and rounded up Food52’s most popular recipes from the antique, pre-Instagram food world of 2010—I’ve made every one of these dishes and can assure you they’ve earned their popularity. See for yourself!
- For her column Plus One, Emily Ziemski made Yuzu-Pickled Enoki Mushrooms, which Resident Harper Fendler then turned into a boozy, briny martini. A+ for teamwork.
- I loved our launch of Hellerware, the sunny, stackable dinnerware from the 1960s. The dinnerware was originally designed by Lella and Massimo Vignelli in Italy and later produced for the U.S. market by Alan Heller.
- Color had a big moment at Schoolhouse as well. We launched a group of our iconic light fixtures in 36 (!) new colors.
- If you like Vietnamese coffee, you’ve gotta try Vietnamese egg coffee from Andrea Nguyen’s new book, Ever-Green Vietnamese. Egg coffee employs sweetened condensed milk and an egg yolk, whipped up to produce a raft of creamy foam that floats atop—and gets slowly stirred into—a concentrated brew.
- In my latest episode of Founder Files, I got to meet some Food52 community members, including one who's been with us for more than a decade! Harper Fendler, our cocktail expert, taught me how to make a Queens Park Swizzle, and the Butcher Girls and I grilled a spatchcock chicken with anchovy-lemon marinade on the Brooklyn waterfront—all in all, a tough day at the office! You can watch it here.
| | | | | | | | | | I’ll leave you with one more summer snapshot, and a cocktail rec—I’m pictured here with Joanna Rosenberg, the Chief Marketing Officer at Zwilling, which makes many of our beloved cookware products, including Miyabi knives and Staub enameled cast-iron cookware. We met at the new
Gage & Tollner in Downtown Brooklyn, which feels like a dream of a bygone world. The rooms are lined with warm, dark woods and floral wallpaper, and the cocktail menu is stocked with rarified classics such as cobblers (fruit, herbs, crushed ice) and smashes (muddled fruit, spirits, mint). They’re all best paired with an order of Oysters Rockefeller!
Have a great week, all! |  | Amanda Hesser
Founder & Executive Chair | | | | | | | | | |
