Forget about plunking down thousands of dollars and putting your name on a yearlong waiting list — to score New York’s latest “it” bag, you’re encouraged to eat the cow it comes from first.
Sold exclusively at the Williamsburg restaurant Marlow & Sons, Breton tote bags boast supple leather and a price tag that ranges from $300 to $400.
The latest in farm-to-table-to-closet fashion, the leather goods are crafted from the tanned hides of the same locally sourced, grass-fed cows and pigs served at Marlow & Sons, an eatery and dry-goods store, and at sister eateries Diner in Williamsburg and Roman’s in Fort Greene.
“[Look at] how quickly you can eat a burger, and that animal sacrifice for you is just gone. Whereas with the bag, that’s something that can last for generations and generations,” said Huling, whose husband, Andrew Tarlow, runs the trio of restaurants and a butcher shop with partner Mark Firth.
A beer so powerful just one gulp would push you over the drink-drive limit has gone on sale. Sink The Bismarck is believed to be the strongest beer in the world with a 41 per cent alcohol content. Brewed by Scottish firm BrewDog it costs £55 for a 330ml bottle.
The drink, which works out as £95 per pint, has four times as many hops than ordinary beers, say its makers. The beer is supposed to be drunk in small quantities because it is so strong and has been designed with a screw top so it can be resealed.
People have long speculated about why girls love horses, according to Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture.
By identifying with these dynamic, strong animals, Orenstein says, girls are expressing their own power.
This is what happens when you connect a few floppy drives to a PIC18f14k50 microcontroller operated by a MIDI-wielding madman. Be sure to watch until at least the 2 minute 30 second mark for a 5 1/4 inch surprise. Look closely, and you might just notice that Box 5 was left empty.
