Park Slope's Walk-In Cookbook Offers Groceries by the Recipe
An unusual grocery store in Park Slope called Walk-In Cookbook lets customers buy pre-portioned ingredients for a recipe to cook at home. Right now, the store, which opened this month at 72 7th Avenue, offers 18 different recipes that change seasonally. Each recipe comes with a detailed instruction card that shows how to cook the…
An unusual grocery store in Park Slope called Walk-In Cookbook lets customers buy pre-portioned ingredients for a recipe to cook at home. Right now, the store, which opened this month at 72 7th Avenue, offers 18 different recipes that change seasonally. Each recipe comes with a detailed instruction card that shows how to cook the meal step by step.
They strive to carry food that’s locally sourced, organic and gluten-free. The recipes and their ingredients are on the left side of the store, and on the right, customers can pick up dry goods from local companies, like McClure’s Pickles and Brooklyn Salsa. Cookbook’s owner, Filip Nuytemans, who is from Belgium, said that once its website is live, it will offer a subscription service that delivers the ingredients for three meals a week to your apartment for $60. GMAP
Photo Via Walk-In Cookbook
I may be too cheap to pay for this convenience, but I think it’s an awesome idea.
Some debbie downers here. Indeed this isn’t new, just a great idea. Like many things, its also about convenience, and there are various levels of it. NeoGrec, unless you make everything in life from scratch, you’ve paid for convenience in some form (cake mixes, ground spices, preserves, canned foods, etc).
It is a bit pricey on the surface, but no idea what the ingredients are, how many ingredients per meal, how many people fed by each meal. (plus its delivered to you). Nobody complains about paying $20 for a simple pizza being delivered.
simple, but genius! how do I invest in this thing?!
Brilliant! I love cooking, and am pretty good at it, but hate that when you want to make a unique recipe you’re stuck with leftover ingredients (end up with a half cup of garam masala when you just need a teaspoon). I need to check this place out.
Can I buy stock?? Seriously, this is the best idea ever… I hate buying pre-made things that I have to heat up, I so much prefer cooking it all myself. It’s just the thinking about the menu and the ingredient hoarding that takes up time.. This is really like a dream come true business plan…
want to hate, but can’t – this is sorta cool
As someone who lives in Park Slope and has visited the store, I can confirm that the $20 dollar price is for two people. In fact, all of their dishes are designed for two people. As someone who eats out a lot in the neighborhood (love me some Rachel’s BBQ), I find their prices to be quite reasonable all things considered.
Yep, nothing new here. I saw exact same concept in Paris last year and Berlin this year. Much like those ghastly neon pastel pants, we are at least a year behind the trends.