A good time was had by all last night, at Temple Beth Torah, in Melville. That’s Long Island, NY for the uninitiated. A lovely crowd of 50 came out for a post-service dinner and talk. Thank you Ben’s Deli for the amazing pastrami sandwich! I gave the standard spiel andRead More →
This week I traveled to the Chizuk Amuno Congregation, which is right outside Baltimore. A special event was prepared for around 50 high school students, all for SeltzertopiaLive! It was fun to revisit all of my material from a youth lens. All the hard seltzer material, about White Claw –Read More →
As you might know, I recently founded the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum with Alex Gomberg and his family. We developed many of the exhibits with graduate students from New York University and Columbia University Teachers College. Below is a fantastic video that was just released by NYU promoting the space andRead More →
This week I had the pleasure of speaking to an audience of over 200 retired NYC public school educators who are all members of the United Federation of Teachers. Each year they hold a day of professional development – even the retired appreciate self-improvement – at what they call DayRead More →
Every since I started writing about seltzer, I have enjoyed my time as a “seltzer influencer” receiving products to sample and report on. That is how I tasted my first Spindrift (I drank a lovely watermelon one last weekend). And Le Seltzer. And of course all of this seltzer obsessingRead More →
The first batch of tickets for the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum just became available! We can’t wait to meet you in person for our September soft launch. Click here to check ticket availability. As a reminder, the Museum celebrates the production of seltzer, the science of seltzer, its cultural importance, and the valueRead More →
BoroPark24 recently published a piece on seltzer and the labor history in their neighborhood. Below is a piece: Seltzer was once the beverage of choice for Boro Parkers of yesteryear, and many can recall the Seltzer truck that you used to make the rounds delivering seltzer in glass bottles. ToRead More →
NY1’s Roger Clark, at New York City’s local 24-hour news station, visited the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum on May 11th and 12th, 2023. It was the first TV coverage of the museums and the 5min+ segments ran all morning on Friday (I estimate around six times). As soon as they began airing,Read More →
This weekend The New York Times ran a front-page article on the weekend Metropolitan section focused on the new Brooklyn Seltzer Museum and the larger seltzer works. It is also full of online-only videos and photographs. You can read the full article (by Corey Kilgannon) here with photos and videoRead More →
Every year I work with talent graduate students as interns from both Teacher’s College, Columbia University and from New York University’s newly rebranded Learning Technology and Experience Design program. They all have played an integral role within my work for over 15 years and I love the opportunity to mentorRead More →