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CAMPUS VISIT: A nice card of a fully tested and completely awesome recipe from my collection, for the cuisine of your choosing.
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STUDY SESSION: A single spice or ingredient, along with a completely awesome recipe that uses that ingredient and a rundown of that spice's role in that particular cuisine.
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CLASS IN A BOX: 2 recipes from my collection, along all of the hard-to-find ingredients you need to make them! Also includes a write-up of the intricacies that make your selected cuisine work.
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DATE IN A BOX: Recipes for an appetizer, an entree and a dessert, along with the hard-to-find ingredients you need to make them! Also includes enough information about the cuisine to totally impress whoever you're eating with.
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DIPLOMA EXOTICA: Everything from the DATE IN A BOX reward along with a spot in my Brooklyn Brainery World Cuisine class! Read up on it on the Brainery site.
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GLOBETROTTER: Not one but two DATE IN A BOX rewards - covers two cuisines! I'll make sure one set of recipes is heavy on dry/canned ingredients that you don't have to use right away so you'll be able to take a breather between your cooking extravaganzas.
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OUT OF THE BOX: A real-life cooking class for two anywhere in NYC about the cuisine of your choosing.
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Howdy! I live in Brooklyn and make all sorts of things. I've built web sites to help you get around NYC on the subway, made maps of where single people live, and figured out just how many people in Japan are baking cookies on Saturdays at 4:30 PM. Right now I'm working hard on Brooklyn Brainery, a Brooklyn-based organization that offers super cheap collaborative classes on really neat topics.
I know this has been a long time but I have tried to get in touch does being in Canada require extra postage I did make ( what for me is) a substantial donation and was really looking forward to my date in a box. Please get back to me
Any updates on this project? It's been 3 months since it was funded and I still haven't received anything.
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Um, was told that Ethiopian went out a while ago but nothing going on here. Any idea when those will ship?
Once the project is done funding I'll send out a questionnaire asking you what cuisine you're interested in, any requirements (vegetarian, etc), how adventurous you are, whether you'd like something that can sit around a while before you cook it, and stuff like that! Don't worry, we'll get you covered.
In for a Date in a Box! How does one request which cuisine they are interested in receiving? I already am a pretty good cook IMHO but I love the idea of having everything on hand for a new cuisine in one place! Ditto for communication RE timing of shipment, etc, perishability, etc.
This is my first kickstarter project I've backed, totalllllly worth it. Kudos.
Good question! I'm going to be shipping everything via USPS flat-rate packages, which take 2-3 days to reach their destination. For some recipes there'll definitely be perishables involved.
I think the perishable ingredients fall into two categories - the hard-to-perish ones (e.g. most fruits, lemongrass) that we won't have to worry about, then the more fragile ones. The fragiles are mostly fresh herbs.
First, I'll be making sure to pack them right. Things like wrapping in moist paper towels, ziploc bags, etc are all things I'm trying out in some test mailings this week. Secondly, I'm going to buy them as fresh as possible, staking out grocers and shipping on the day they get deliveries.
I'll also plan around how you operate - if you're way busy in general and cooking everything in the day or two after you receive it is out of the question, I'll work on recipes without perishables for you.
So, long story short, I think we'll be okay on the perishables front!
While not in a position to help fund this project, I do plan on sharing it on my Facebook page soon for others to see. However, I have one question, do these boxes include any perishable ingredients, and if so how are they shipped?