A Literary Feast: Recreating 10 Fictional Meals in Brooklyn
- c/o thekitchn.com
“It’s a pizza.“
“Maybe where you come from, they call it a pizza. But here in the Unites States, we call it a grassy knoll.”
“For your information, it’s a prosciutto and arugula pizza.” Aurit used her fork to rake off a section of shrubbery. Nate saw that underneath there did appear to be a fairly standard pizza with cheese and prosciutto…Nate began pouring ketchup on his burger.
Waldman’s book (one of the best debut novels I’ve ever read) perfectly captures so much about what it is to be young and literary and living in New York at this particular time in history. And this includes the food culture in Brooklyn—everything from what it’s like to grab brunch on a weekend to how neighborhood coffee shops transform into writerly workspaces every weekday, Waldman nails it all. And so in honor of Aurit, the one totally platonic female friend of the novel’s hero/antihero, head over to Barboncino and have one of the delicious arugula pizzas with prosciutto. Unlike the nameless restaurant in the book, Barboncino never puts too much arugula on its pizza, so you’ll enjoy it even more than Aurit did.
Barboncino; 781 Franklin Avenue, Crown Heights