11am, Saturday, June 15: Eat the City/Sugar Tour

11am, Saturday, June 15: Eat the City/Sugar Tour, with Urban Oyster and Sugartooth Tours. Learn the secret history of sugar production in Dumbo and throughout New York City, and sample contemporary sweet confections.

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Monday, August 26: Shulman addresses NYU

Monday, August 26: Shulman addresses NYU’s incoming first-year class at Convocation, after students read Eat the City over the summer as their book for Freshman Dialogue.

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This lovely essay collection was one of my favorite books of the year

“This lovely essay collection was one of my favorite books of the year: Elegant, fascinating stories about New York’s culinary geography with rich portraits of the people – past and present – who have taken part in its food production…Such a pleasure to read.” —Village Voice, a Best Food Book of 2012

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A buzzing, savory, lively world comes to life in Robin Shulman’s…

“A buzzing, savory, lively world comes to life in Robin Shulman’s extensively researched ‘Eat the City’…The book provides what’s missing from much of the breathless media coverage of New York’s modern food artisans: culinary context…That’s history made delicious.” -Washington Post

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“The author, a former reporter for the Washington Post, has employed her skills as a writer and journalist to pull off a rather impressive feat: She has used food to chart the city’s evolution, and to argue that it owes its greatness as an international crossroads, particularly in its early years, as much to food as to industry or culture.” –The Wall Street Journal

“The author, a former reporter for the Washington Post, has employed her skills as a writer and journalist to pull off a rather impressive feat: She has used food to chart the city’s evolution, and to argue that it owes its greatness as an international crossroads, particularly in its early years, as much to food as to industry or culture.” –The Wall Street Journal

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