Author: Madeline K.B. Ross (Madeline K.B. Ross)

Spicy ‘n Sweet co-founder Jorge Moret calls the company “a bit of a Modern Family business” and it does sound like the premise of a sitcom: a graphic designer, a furniture designer, and an Italian mother join forces to bring quality tomato sauce to New York City. “I grew up knowing this is the way...

Spread peanut butter and marshmallow fluff between two Ritz crackers. Cover the sandwich with caramel, then with chocolate. Finally, break the layers into tiny pieces and mix into a sweet ice cream base. The result is Fluffnut, the first flavor created by Brooklyn-based ice cream producer Phin & Phebes in February 2010. Jess Eddy and...

  For Paige McCurdy-Flynn, the recession was a much-needed push into a new career path. After losing her job at Fortune Magazine, where she had been a production manager for eight years, McCurdy-Flynn left the world of magazine publishing to enroll in culinary school. Now McCurdy-Flynn is a freelance food stylist by day and cookie...

  Until a few years ago Monika Luczak was just another New York City lawyer dissatisfied with her job. Now the co-founder of Saucy by Nature and food artisan alliance Fare Trade NYC spends more time in a hair net than in a power suit. And she’s happy about the change. “Being a lawyer wasn’t...

Three years ago Rachael Mamane was living in Seattle and struggling to find work that combined her parallel passions for technology and food.  “Now I’m encountering companies that are based in food, technology and farming,” she said. “New York offers an opportunity to bring seemingly disparate industries together in very different ways.” Mamane is the...

8:25 A.M. on November 7th, 2012 at Atlantic Ave. and Flatbush Ave. The morning after the election, Brooklyn is grey and cold. The streets have become wind tunnels and a woman waiting at the bus stop glances nervously at the sky. Obama has won and the world looks the same. At the Starbucks in the...

Horns blare and police sirens sound, but all to no avail. A silver sedan is blocking the intersection of Fifth Avenue and East 65th and cannot or will not be moved. The taxi driver begins to sweat, leaning on the horn repeatedly as he glares at the sedan. It’s the not moving that makes him...

Every weekend buyers roam stalls at the Brooklyn Flea in search of good deals and hidden treasures. But what about the vendors? Brooklyn Ink reporters spoke with sellers about the most impressive and memorable pieces they’ve come across. Click on the photos below to hear the vendors’ stories in their own voices. October is the last...

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