Aboveground Presents a REGENERATIVE SPRING DINNER 

hosted by Little Egg 

At Aboveground we host events at the intersection of food, climate, and community. This April we are excited to welcome THE RESTAURANT AT HILL FARM in Sunderland, Vermont down to Brooklyn. 

Chef Austin Poulin and Beverage Director Sofia Villalón will celebrate early spring with a meal featuring producers practicing regenerative agriculture from their corner of Southern Vermont.

April 30th, 6pm and 8:30pm seatings

4 course family-style dinner

$80/person + a-la-carte beverages

Join us and learn a few takeaways about what this new buzzword in sustainable agriculture means for you, the food you eat, and our planet.

Buy tickets for 6pm seating here // Buy tickets for 8:30pm seating here

Please Note: 

• Note the time you are purchasing a ticket for and if you would like to sit with others we recommend purchasing tickets under one name. 

• Please email kathryn@abovegroundspaces.com with any dietary restrictions.

• There will be tables in the enclosed and heated patio -- please indicate if you prefer not to sit outside.

• A curated list of beverages will be available for purchase. 

MORE ABOUT AUSTIN & SOFIA:

Austin Poulin and Sofia Villalón bring with them a dedication to craft and community. Having both spent time at Blue Hill at Stone Barns and Albi in Washington D.C. you can taste the influences of both Michelin Star restaurants, the time they spent on the farm, as well as their own unique flavor combinations when dining with them at The Restaurant at Hill Farm (and with us later this month at Little Egg!).

Come celebrate the launch of HOT SHEET by Olga Massov and Sanaë Lemoine, their debut cookbook showcasing all the sweet and savory possibilities of sheet pan cooking.

Each ticket includes a complimentary drink and small bites from the cookbook. You can also pre-order a signed copy of the cookbook as part of your ticket purchase.

This event is SOLD OUT!

Accessibility info: Little Egg has a ramp for wheelchair access.

Chef Molly Levine is bringing her beloved upstate pop-up Westerly Canteen to Little Egg for one night and two seatings of family-style dinners! Presented with our shared buddy Kathryn Arffa, tickets will include a seasonal family-style feast and we’ll be pouring wines and beers from some of our favorite local and sustainable producers.

Tickets for the 6pm seating here, or 8:30pm seating over here.

Join us for the first QSN Brooklyn of 2024!

Through direct donations of food and clothes, this event will be supporting thousands of migrants here in NYC.

Little Egg providing the soups!

This event has a timeline!

4:30pm Bring your donations of NEW underwear and socks (all sizes) and used coats, winter gear, suitcases and backpacks. Help sort donations.

5:45pm Soup served!

We will also be collecting funds via cash or Venmo to purchase hot meals for folks.

Help our team: On Sunday, Feb 4, we will be driving donations to Floyd Bennet Field temporary shelters. Drivers and Spanish translators needed! If you can drive or translate, please reach out to hq@queersoupnight.com

FIG x Hospitality for Humanity present

تضامن | tadhamon! with chef Elias Rischmawi

hosted by Little Egg 

 a Palestinian Pop Up Series celebrating food sovereignty and solidarity

Tadhamon means solidarity in Arabic. This holiday season we invite our community to come celebrate and learn about the Palestinian freedom struggle, support Palestinian chefs and producers, and build connections between our communities resisting colonialism from Korea to Gaza to Puerto Rico.

Join us for the third installment of the tadhamon! series, featuring chef Elias Rischmawi of Sahoury Soul presenting a menu of dishes reflecting a unique perspective on the Palestinian diaspora.

Two seatings will be available: 6pm and 8:30pm. Be sure to select the right slot!

The $85 ticket price includes all food in a family-style setting, one welcome drink, and service. Additional beverages will be available for purchase. In addition to sharing this meal together, we'll be joined by activists and cultural workers sharing ways to build solidarity and take action in support of Palestinian life and freedom.

Buy tickets for 6pm seating here // Buy tickets for 8:30pm seating here

More info on FIG and Hospitality for Humanity. Deep thanks to @aaliance for our beautiful graphic design for this series.

FIG x Hospitality for Humanity present

تضامن | tadhamon!

hosted by Little Egg 

 a Palestinian Pop Up Series celebrating food sovereignty and solidarity

Tadhamon means solidarity in Arabic. This holiday season we invite our community to come celebrate and learn about the Palestinian freedom struggle, support Palestinian chefs and producers, and build connections between our communities resisting colonialism from Korea to Gaza to Puerto Rico.

Join us for the second installment of the tadhamon! series, featuring chef Omar Anani of Shaebi in Detroit preparing a menu of dishes reflecting his story of the Palestinian diaspora. Formerly of Saffron De Twah, Omar is a James Beard Foundation Leadership & Resilience and Best Chef winner recognized for his commitment to sustainability and building community through food.

Two seatings will be available: 6pm and 8:30pm. Be sure to select the right slot!

The $85 ticket price includes all food in a family-style setting, one welcome drink, and service. Additional beverages will be available for purchase. In addition to sharing this meal together, we'll be joined by activists and cultural workers sharing ways to build solidarity and take action in support of Palestinian life and freedom.

Buy tickets for 6pm seating here // Buy tickets for 8:30pm seating here

More info on FIG and Hospitality for Humanity. Deep thanks to @aaliance for our beautiful graphic design for this series.

Join us Monday September 25th as we read, cook, and eat with Isle McElroy (People Collide), Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Promise), and returning TOC reader Jamel Brinkley (Witness). The novels and stories from these authors have filled up our late-summer minds, and we can't wait to bring some of their work to the table at Insa. In case you're not already familiar with this crew, here's a bit to whet your appetites:

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a multi-media artist, poet, and novelist. She received the MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and is the recipient of numerous fellowships including Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Kimbilio, Cave Canem Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Millay Colony, and Yaddo. Her literary and visual work has been widely published in journals, magazines, anthologies, and periodicals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Progressive, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Callaloo, Poets & Writers, American Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, The Writer’s Chronicle, Transition, American Poet, Mosaic, Indiana Review, Ecotone, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Best American Poetry (2020, 2021), The New York Review of Books, BOMB! Magazine, and many others.

Isle McElroy is a non-binary writer based in Brooklyn. Their debut novel, The Atmospherians, was named a New York Times Editors' Choice. Their second novel, People Collide, will be published in September. Other writing appears in The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Cut, Vulture, GQ, Vogue, The Atlantic, Tin House, and elsewhere. Isle was named one of The Strand's 30 Writers to Watch. They have received fellowships from The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Tin House Summer Workshop, The Sewanee Writers Conference, The Inprint Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, and The National Parks Service. 



Jamel Brinkley is the author of Witness: Stories (2023), out now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US)/4th Estate (UK), and A Lucky Man: Stories (2018, Graywolf Press), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and winner of a PEN Oakland Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Paris Review, American Short Fiction, The Yale Review, Guernica, The Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, Glimmer Train, The Believer, and Tin House, and has been anthologized twice in The Best American Short Stories. Raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, he teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.


Each ticket includes all food as well as your choice of a literary cocktail inspired by Rachel, Isle, and Jamel's books, dreamed up by Cocktails In Color co-authors Olivia McGiff and Sammi Katz. Additional drinks will be available for purchase and, trust us, you're going to want to try more than one!

We'll conclude with a conversation between the authors and TOC founder Evan Hanczor. Our friends at Center for Fiction will be with us selling books, so come ready to pick up some copies! And as mentioned this is an official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event, part of a full spread of literary programming in the weeks around the festival, so be sure to check out the other book events happening in the borough this month.

We do have a handful of seats reserved for sliding-scale admission to keep these events as accessible as possible, so please let us know if this ticket price is prohibitive for you. We want to get you a seat at the table. These sliding scale seats are limited, so please be thoughtful about your resources and needs when making a request.

Email us at biscuits@tablesofcontents.org  or DM us at @tables.of.contents on IG with any questions. We can't wait to see you at this table.

SOLD OUT! See you at the next reading!

Join us Monday September 11th as we celebrate Bryan Washington's Family Meal, and C Pam Zhang's Land of Milk and Honey. These two authors are some of our most perceptive, unique, and sensual writers and both knead food deeply and deftly into their stories. Their new novels are no exception. We'll hear readings from Bryan and Pam and eat a handful of small bites inspired by their work, ranging from sweet to savory to scorched. 



FIG holds their monthly food industry study group and potluck at Little Egg. For more information on FIG’s food sovereignty work and to inquire about Study Group participation, visit www.fig-nyc.org.