When Tamar Adler moved from California to New York, she got lucky: a college friend had just bought a duplex apartment in a renovated brownstone in Brooklyn's Boerum Hill neighborhood, and wanted Tamar—author of
An Everlasting Meal
and the
New Yorker's online food columnist—to move in as a housemate. "I've lived in some great places in my life," she says. "But this is a particularly wonderful one." With an expansive open plan and a lot of light, the kitchen is close to perfect—but it does have its little flaws. As Adler says, "the sink's a little smaller than I like, and the faucet is just so
shiny. But that's barely a real complaint," especially with so much else to love.
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