"It's total stoner food. We're actually seeing if 'High Times' wants to write about it." [Photos: Joe DiStefano] No sooner did Tom Mylan and Brent Young open the Meat Hook in Brooklyn than Mylan flooded my Facebook with tons of...
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"Large lambs almost a year old, half sides of pigs with their tails and kidneys intact, and dark-red, well aged beef." [Photos: Chichi Wang] Since its opening in 2006, The Brooklyn Kitchen has been offering classes in everything from pig...
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Butcher Tom Mylan has yet to open his "food dork megaplex" for Brooklyn meatheads, but he does have a blog— The Meat Hook, a collection of thoughts, pictures, and a recipe for 20 gallons of chili. "We like to serve...
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Tom Mylan at last year's 3rd Ward Pig Roast. After five years, butcher rockstar Tom Mylan is moving on from his roles at Diner, Marlow & Sons (and Marlow & Daughters). Over the weekend, while overseeing the feast of...
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Professor Mylan holding class last fall. Tom Mylan's butchering classes at the Brooklyn Kitchen have inspired a pretty religious following. They fill up fast. The curriculum: he walks you through the process of cutting up half a pig, explains...
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Guilty pleasures? Bullet-proof Chinese delivery from Sunny Garden. Obviously not local or pastured but chock-full of MSG. I like them because they change their oil more than any of the other places so their egg rolls don't taste stale. Editor's...
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Hasidic funeral nextdoor. The new but old-timey-looking sign went up at Marlow & Daughters yesterday, which is gearing up for a soft opening tonight at 5 p.m. and official opening tomorrow, according to Brooklyn Based. The space used to...
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"Squawk, squaaawk." Photograph from Mark Wiewel on Flickr Marlow & Daughters—the butcher sibling of the Williamsburg meat-focused diner Marlow & Sons—isn't open yet (next Wednesday is the goal), but they will be taking pre-orders for Christmas geese once they...
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Tom Mylan and pink-haired helper at a pig roast earlier this summer. Normally when Tom Mylan (the butcher for Diner, Marlow & Sons, and Bonita) is spotted in public, a roasted pig is involved. But this Sunday, he's embracing...
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Editor's note: Our Tom Mylan worship knows no bounds here at Serious Eats: New York. Alaina went to his pig butchering class at The Brooklyn Kitchen, Erin went to one of his pig roasts, and now Tam has followed suit...
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