3rd Ward Adds a Culinary Incubator So Everyone Can Know if Their Chicken was Happy

Drew Grant — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:30:03 -0400

3rdWard's Food Incubator

Brooklyn's 3rd Ward is a great place to take classes on art, sculpture, and hipsterdom. Where else can you drink PBR while drawing nudes, with the only cost being a basic membership fee of $129 a year (not including classes)?

But in addition to woodworking and jewelry-making, 3rd Ward is now offering a new opportunity for young 20-somethings with too much money and time on their hands: a "Culinary Incubator," which will teach classes on asking a waiter with the proper amount of condescension: "But were all the ingredients grown locally?"

Opening in 2013, the Culinary Incubator (Goddammit, just call it Culinary School!) will offer the following services:

CLASSES
Traditional Food Preparation Techniques
Modern Techniques & Technology
Drinkmaking
Urban Agriculture
Health & Nutrition
Professional Development

PROFESSIONAL-GRADE FACILITIES

Large Shared Kitchen with standard,
specialized & experimental equipment
Baking & Pastry Kitchen
Meat Curing Lab
Beverage Lab
Classooms & Event Space

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Lectures, tastings, free seminars,
competitions, healthy produce
Event spaces will feature open kitchens,
dining areas, broadcasting capabilities
and more

CAFE & MARKET
Healthy meals (using select Member-made ingredients), fresh produce,
cooking ingredients, Member-made food products, tools and equipment

Good. Perfect. Just what Brooklyn needs, actually: more weird restaurants that focus on experimental meat curing, with chefs trained by an arts organization. Pass the Mad Cow, please!

3rd Ward Art Collective Gets the Times Treatment

Leon Neyfakh — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:49:11 -0400

3rd Ward, the arts collective in Brooklyn, is celebrated in the Times's art section as a "D.I.Y. utopia" with a piece detailing how the organization, now four years old, has managed to thrive at a time when any reasonable person might have expected it to crumple. Facilities at 3rd Ward, which counts primarily freelancers as its members, include wood and metalworking shops, photography studios, "media labs," and classrooms. Revenue last year was $1.5 million, according to 31-year-old co-founder Jason Goodman. The Times explains that 3rd Ward was able to expand its membership in part because the recession forced individualks who might have otherwise been able to afford their own space to look for cheaper alternatives.

Back in November the Observer wrote about one particular class that was being offered at 3rd Ward, about how to make it in the New York art world. The class, which attracted about a dozen of artists of varying levels of experience, met at 3rd Ward's Williamsburg location, right across from where their new food truck, Goods, now stands.

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3rd Ward Adds a Culinary Incubator So Everyone Can Know if Their Chicken was Happy

3rd Ward Art Collective Gets the Times Treatment