HONOR THE DRINKS THAT MAKE UP NEW YORK’S HISTORY
Parish Hall
109A North Third St., Williamsburg
Tuesday, August 7, free admission, 8:00
718-782-2602
www.parishhall.net
robinshulman.com
Over the course of the last three weeks, Canadian-born New York City journalist Robin Shulman has been celebrating the publication of her first book, Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York (Crown, July 10, 2012, $26), with a series of events at bars, markets, and restaurants, including a special dinner last Thursday at Parish Hall in Brooklyn. Shulman returns to Parish Hall tonight for “Drink the City,” where attendees can sample some of the beer, wine, and hard liquor that Shulman covers in the book, in which she talks to people who produce their own food and drink. “In 1626, the year the Dutch purchased the island of Manhattan,” Shulman notes in the “Beer” chapter, “a visitor from Holland wrote that they ‘brew as good beer here as in our Fatherland, for good hops grow in the woods.’” Weaving fascinating historical details into her smoothly flowing narrative, Shulman also writes about honey, vegetables, meat, sugar, fish, and wine. Shulman will be joined at Parish Hall by some of the characters in Eat the City as everyone enjoys homegrown cocktails, both old and new, mentioned in the book, all made with local ingredients.