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 →
Seth Front, the creator of the Jewish Zodiac, recently penned this so-called Egg Cream Manifesto. It’s worth checking out.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 →
What do Jedis and seltzer delivery men have in common? Find out in my latest piece, and VIDEO, for the Forward: Seltzer delivery is a dying art. Once, hundreds of “seltzer men,” as they liked to be called, drove the city and walked the streets of New York, carting casesRead More →
I just posted, for one week only, an except from the draft of my forthcoming book on seltzer. Please check it out before its gone, leave your constructive feedback, join the “fan” page, and tell your friends! And here is the video of my life reading, which will also comeRead More →
At 10 p.m. EST this evening, if the fates allow, I will be reading the draft of the opening section from my book project, Give Me Seltzer. More information on the event, and a link to the text, here. Below will be the live video of my reading, followed byRead More →
I recently finished a draft of the opening to my book, Give Me Seltzer, and I am excited to be sharing it, for the first time, this Thursday, at an online book reading. I will leave up the video of the reading, and the full text, for one week. IfRead 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 →
A few weeks back I found online the great-grandchild, not a grown adult, of a figure I’ve spent many years researching and many months writing about. She very generously offered to read the draft of that section, and here’s what she had to say: Barry… thank you for sending meRead 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 →