Webster Crowell, the self-described Head Seltzerman at the Seattle-based Under Pressure, recently led a successful online fundraising campaign to launch his bike-based seltzer delivery business. Using Indiegogo, a Kickstarter-style fundraising site, Webster set a goal of $2,830 to provide funding for: Construction of a custom delivery cart Repairs to aRead More →
There aren’t that many people in the seltzer delivery business. There are even less who began their work in the 21st Century. So its rare to see news coverage of the young turks. This past week, however, there were two – yes, count them, 2! – different articles, on twoRead More →
There is a new Egg Cream article, Egg Creams Make a Comeback, in the Forward this week. New York is having an egg cream revival — again. That thought occurred to me in July, while parked on a counter stool at Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain, in Carroll Gardens, sippingRead More →
I just came across this great collection of Science Projects With Seltzer. My favorite is the carbonated lava lamp! Another experiment involves creating an Alka-Seltzer water lava lamp. A 16-ounce soda pop bottle should be emptied and cleaned, then filled 3/4 full with vegetable oil and the rest of theRead More →
In this week’s Metropolitan Diary in the New York Times, an Ilene Bauer published the following poem: SELTZER BOTTLES I often pass a window Near the street where I reside, And glancing at it, visions of my past It does provide. For it contains two seltzer bottles, Spritzers facing in.Read More →
Liz Alpern in the Forward’s new food blog, The Jew and the Carrot, wrote a fun piece full of seltzer recipes: Candied Ginger Fizz, Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream Float, and, of course, Chocolate Egg Creams. Check it out here. She also gives me a lovely, if not ungrammatical, shout-out: TheRead More →
Science News magazine reported last week that a moon of Saturn might have an ocean, an ocean of seltzer! Eau my! Things could be really popping inside Saturn’s moon Enceladus. A fizzy ocean, similar in carbonation to Perrier, may feed the plumes of water vapor, gas and ice that eruptRead More →
Wow! Why didn’t we think of this first in NYC! Can we be the next location for a public seltzer fountain? Pretty please? Eau la la! Parisians get free fizzy water from a park fountain French capital gets first public fountain dispensing carbonated water in attempt to wean public offRead More →
Check out the latest issue of New York Magazine for a fun interview with the NYC seltzer delivery icon, Walter Backerman: Ask a Seltzer Man Third-generation seltzermonger Walter Backerman on the dying art of H2O delivery. By Sarah Bernard Published Jul 25, 2010 With bottled seltzer at every corner store,Read More →
In tandem with my August talk in Great Barrington, Ma (which I am so excited about) I will be interviewed by an Albany-based radio show on WAMC: The Roundtable: WAMC’s The Roundtable is an award-winning, nationally recognized three-hour eclectic talk program. The show airs from 9AM – noon each weekdayRead More →