March 22, 2008
New Show Features Butter Lambs (and more) in Brooklyn
A new PBS show called A Little Bit of Brooklyn, that presents the borough's cultural nuggets, premieres today on WLIW. Hosted by Cobble Hill foodie Terry Corraro, the first episode features the Gubernats, a Polish family from Greenpoint, who keep their cultural traditions alive each Easter by carving a lamb out of butter, baking a lamb-shaped cake, making intricate paintings on eggs with wax, and cooking up a fine feast of white borscht. Greenpoint is home to the second largest Polish population in the United States (the largest is in Chicago). But as the Brooklyn Paper reported earlier this month, the neighborhood is quickly getting caught up in the trend toward homogeneity.
Corrao's family once owned the Chicago-based Stevenson Pie Company, which had a factory in Long Island City. The host of the new show counts 65 different ethnic enclaves in Brooklyn, and hopes to be able to create many more episodes. Better get those cameras rolling.
A Little Bit of Brooklyn airs on WLIW today at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Photo courtesy of knitswithasilentk on Flickr.
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in ohio they have the butter cow...like 2 tons of butter...pretty incredible really..
chiago is polak capital of the world!
I'm originally from Buffalo, where butter lambs are huge at Easter. When my fiance and I moved from the East Coast out to San Francisco this summer, we brought along a butter lamb and took photos of it and with it across the country. That short-lived blog lives here: http://butterlambacrossamerica.blogspot.com.
You can also buy lamb-shaped cakes at Angelica's Bakery in the Bronx.
Angelica's Bakery
4315 Katonah Ave
Bronx, NY 10470
718) 325-7292