"On their website, the Mast brothers quote Pete Seeger, 'I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.' Agreed, but how is ultra-expensive chocolate helping Brooklyn communities take care...
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From top left: McClure's pickles; Mast Brothers, head butcher Tom Mylan of Marlow & Sons The New York Times' Oliver Schwaner-Albright chronicles the burgeoning Brooklyn artisanal food scene in today's Dining section. The Serious Eats New York crew and...
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A Mast Brothers chocolate bar with almonds and sea salt. While upending the shelves at Stone Barns for new treasure, I stumbled across a Mast Brothers chocolate bar flecked with almonds. And sea salt! I have an underdeveloped sweet-tooth...
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Today's Meet & Eat is with two brothers who quit their day jobs (Michael was in finance for independent films, and Rick, a chef) to become artisan chocolate makers. Producing about 200 bars a week in a 500-square-foot Brooklyn commercial...
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