Brooklyn Books & Specialty Foods

Stumptown is from Portland Oregon

There is a grocer in carroll gardens, court street grocers which carries many Brooklyn artisanal food products

The Brooklyn kitchen in Williamsburg is another great place.

Books, the new Brooklyn kitchen is a great food focused coffee table book.

Not a book or food, but Juniors sells glasses with an egg cream recipe written on the side. They come individually boxed with that recognizable Junior’s red and white logo. I thought this would make such a cute gift that I bought them for myself!

I second the Bagel Hole, but they would have to partake the morning you arrive.

I second BROOKLYN MODERN. There’s a cute picture book called BROOKLYN THEN AND NOW. Also, THE BROOKLYNITES a fairly recent photo book that chronicles individual contemporary Brooklynites — famous and ordinary. Another favorite is FEBRUARY HOUSE about all the literary and arty types who lived at 77 Middagh St, brooklyn Heights in the 1940s — Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, Gypsy Rose Lee. I’ve also had great success with visitors showing them the Ric Burns documentary about Coney Island — but you’d need to know that they have a universal dvd player that can play all regions. Maybe throw in a few copies of EDIBLE BROOKLYN magazine — though not sure if it was discontinued since it’s getting harder to find. Check out the bookstore at Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo. They have lots of great Brooklyn stuff.

Not a brooklyn product, but anything with real maple syrup, like maple syrup candy – hard to get and expensive in Europe. Chocolate chip cookies – very american, always popular.