<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" style="border:0 none;" src="http://www.remain-silent.com/cm/kewlstuff/bk-cookbook.jpg" alt="the new brooklyn cookbook" width="250" height="375" /></p>

If you live in or around Brooklyn NY, you've probably heard from local blogs and newspapers about a new book in town. A cookbook. Conceived by Brendan and Melissa Vaughn, The New Brooklyn Cookbook is a collection of recipes and stories from 31 restaurants in and around Brooklyn. I think its only fitting that such a book come out at this point of Brooklyn's culinary exploration, a Brooklynite can quite literally indulge in any and every cuisine in their borough at a quality that rivals that of Manhattan. I personally think that the ever evolving, ever adventurous restaurants popping up in the borough are accounting for the ongoing renaissance that permeates many formerly unsavoury neighbourhoods.

With recipes such as <a href="http://marlowandsons.com/">Marlow and Sons</a> brick chicken, <a href="http://www.goodfork.com/">The Good Fork</a>'s steak and eggs - Korean style, <a href="http://www.flatbushfarm.com/">Flatbush Farm</a>’s molten chocolate cake and <a href="http://www.no7restaurant.com/">No. 7</a>’s butterscotch pudding - this book comes just in time for the hibernation inducing winters NY suffers.

The pictures were shot by the talented <a href="http://harlanturk.com/">Michael Harlan Turkell</a> of <a href="http://www.ediblebrooklyn.com/">edible brooklyn</a>/<a href="http://www.ediblemanhattan.com/">edible manhattan</a> fame. If you are interested in meeting the writers they will be at the Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO tonight from 7p-9p to launch the book and have a chat. Check <a href="http://www.powerhousearena.com/newsletters/101004/">here</a> for more info and to rsvp.

<em>images via <a href="http://hotbreadkitchen.org/hot-bread-kitchen-in-new-brooklyn-cookbook">hot bread kitchen</a></em>