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 →
I happened to be celebrating July 4th today with my family at Old Richmond Town, the historic preservation on Staten Island. I was surprised and delighted to find, within their museum, a history of seltzer bottling and beer brewing on the island, starting out with this exhibit below. And theyRead More →
This great article from YIVO on European Jewry and health has this fantastic image from the 1920s from a spa: Sara Berland and her daughter, Felicja, from Chełm, visiting Krynica, a town in Poland famous for its spa, 1920s. It was traditional for visitors to a spa to carry aroundRead More →
A recent article in the Atlantic Monthly called My Seltzer Conversion gives a lovely shout out to my project. Sarah Elton’s lovely post today makes me want to see Seltzer Works, the documentary she mentions about one of Brooklyn’s last seltzer men, Kenny Gomberg—and wish we had a seltzer deliveryRead More →
My first talk on seltzer in more years than I can remember – my first talk since I restarted work on my book – will be held in the bucolic Berkshires this August. For more information, download their PDF file. I can’t wait. I know this is going to beRead More →
As I recently posted, a new distributor is bringing Argentinian plastic siphons to the U.S. My local shop, however, sold me old bottles – that means the carbonation was flat and could barely produce the power necessary to squirt it all out. The distributors have been great – promising toRead More →
Now try saying THAT ten times fast. Thank you Alicia of SodaStream!Read More →
After over 100 hundreds interviews that I did for my seltzer book, it finally hit me: let people online respond. I don’t know what took me so long but finally, at long last, here it is! The Supreme Seltzer Survey! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H8MKVGW It shouldn’t take more than a minute. Please respondRead More →