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Brooklyn Bites: Meatball Sandwich & Cream Crumb
Brooklyn Bites is a collection of shorts stories that centers around the compelling people, diverse relationships and simply remarkable food in Brooklyn, New York. Meatball Sandwich and Cream Crumb are the third and fourth stories in the compilation.
In Meatball Sandwich, Jeremy sits on the Brooklyn Heights promenade, miserable from having been dumped by text the night before. When some stranger named Maggie sits down next to him against his wishes, Jeremy imagines a giant fish leaping out of the East River and swallowing her whole. That is, until she offers him a homemade meatball sandwich and a night on the promenade he never expected.
Cream Crumb follows Josh into Peter Pan’s Donut Shop, where he is about to have his last meal before jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. Josh orders a cream crumb donut for the first time and is so overwhelmed by its taste that his life changes in completely unexpected ways even before he finishes the last bite.
In Meatball Sandwich, Jeremy sits on the Brooklyn Heights promenade, miserable from having been dumped by text the night before. When some stranger named Maggie sits down next to him against his wishes, Jeremy imagines a giant fish leaping out of the East River and swallowing her whole. That is, until she offers him a homemade meatball sandwich and a night on the promenade he never expected.
Cream Crumb follows Josh into Peter Pan’s Donut Shop, where he is about to have his last meal before jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. Josh orders a cream crumb donut for the first time and is so overwhelmed by its taste that his life changes in completely unexpected ways even before he finishes the last bite.
18 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 15, 2012
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About the author
Scott Stabile
18 books93 followersScott Stabile is the author of Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide Open Heart, Just Love, and the upcoming, Enough as You Are (Oct. 2023).
A friend once referred to him as a love activist, and that’s a description he happily owns. He writes, speaks and gives workshops on a lot of subjects — authenticity, trust, fear, compassion, joy, conditioning and, of course, love and self-love — always with the intention of reminding you that you are a worthy, whole and loved human being. As is everyone else.
He makes a lot of noise for the power of love, and believes love is our greatest healer. With it at the root of our words and actions, we stand to create real healing in ourselves and our world.
Scott also guides transformational breathwork and sees it as one of the most powerful tools for self-discovery and healing.
Learn more about how Scott spreads big love at www.scottstabile.com, and subscribe to his Bigger Love newsletter at scottstabile.substack.com.
A friend once referred to him as a love activist, and that’s a description he happily owns. He writes, speaks and gives workshops on a lot of subjects — authenticity, trust, fear, compassion, joy, conditioning and, of course, love and self-love — always with the intention of reminding you that you are a worthy, whole and loved human being. As is everyone else.
He makes a lot of noise for the power of love, and believes love is our greatest healer. With it at the root of our words and actions, we stand to create real healing in ourselves and our world.
Scott also guides transformational breathwork and sees it as one of the most powerful tools for self-discovery and healing.
Learn more about how Scott spreads big love at www.scottstabile.com, and subscribe to his Bigger Love newsletter at scottstabile.substack.com.
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May 13, 2012
Meatball Sandwich & Cream Crumb is the second volume of Scott Stabile's Brooklyn Bites stories. Each volume contains 2 short stories focused around food, and around Brooklyn. I read the first volume (Truffle Fries and a Little Taste of Chocolate) as a review book earlier this year and fell in love. This second volume really keeps up the standard. The descriptions of food are so intense you can almost taste the food, I'm not a big meatball person but Sabile's descriptions of the meatball sandwich had me craving one, and after finishing Cream Crumb I wished I was in walking distance of Krispy Kreme! In some ways I actually prefered this volume. I didn't think either story was stronger than the other, as I had with the first volume. I thought they linked together a bit better. They were both about hope, which is a lovely thing to read about in itself.
I had really wondered how a donut could really change someone's life. As I started to find out I was a little skeptical but Stabile made a strange idea sound realistic, which is a real feat.
Seriously guys you have to read this series.
I had really wondered how a donut could really change someone's life. As I started to find out I was a little skeptical but Stabile made a strange idea sound realistic, which is a real feat.
Seriously guys you have to read this series.
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