Eating In Translation

Der Schwarze Kolner

Maultaschen, filled pasta from the southern German region of Swabia, resemble oversized ravioli, at least at first.

Bittersweet

Grapenut (single scoop, $3.50), one of this coffee shop's housemade ice creams, features the wheat-and-barley cereal — which contains no grapes or nuts — in a vanilla-flavored base. Customarily the cereal is ground much more finely, as in this commercial brand made in Maine.

Milk Truck

By milk they mean shakes, and various kinds of cheese.

Brooklyn Cured

Because it's made with hefeweizen, a pale wheat beer, and not some darker, stronger brew, this whole-grain beer mustard (about 6 oz., $4) might fade in the presence of heady charcuterie. The texture, however, holds up: While not effervescent, those little mustard grains do pop-pop-pop in your mouth.

Brooklyn Cured
This day, at Brooklyn Flea, 1 Hanson Pl., Fort Greene, Brooklyn; see Twitter for other locations
917-282-2221
www.BrooklynCured.com

Red Hook Lobster Pound

There are two schools of lobster roll.

Choncho's Tacos

Baja Williamsburgh.

Owa Afrikan Market

Nigerians take their palm wine seriously.

William B.A. Jürgens building

Within the dusty reddish arc on the building in the foreground, you may be able to make out the name Wm. B.A. Jürgens, Brooklyn's largest wholesale grocer of the early 20th century. (Click on the photo for a closer look.)

Erected in 1898, this seems to have been an outbuilding for a grander Jürgens warehouse, also in the Wallabout neighborhood south of the Navy Yard. I don't know this building's current function, and the character in the background, who figures in the latest release of Grand Theft Auto, wasn't talking.

William B.A. Jürgens building
Steuben St. (Flushing-Park Aves.), the Wallabout, Brooklyn

Cesar's street cart

Sometimes it's spelled as one word, sometimes it's chopped in two, but this is the first time I'd seen it on the street.

Catskill water access-hole covers

You're familiar, perhaps, with "farm to table."

Early Bird Foods

The early bird gets his pick.

Word of Mouth: Start date for the Red Hook Food Vendors

Updated with more details from Cesar Fuentes, executive director of the Food Vendors Committee of Red Hook Park.

Dance Africa Bazaar

The bazaar was crowded with shoppers — hungry shoppers.

Joloff Restaurant

The presentation is uncommonly genteel.

Duncan's Quality Fish Market

When I ordered a porgy sandwich ($5.75), I hardly expected to hear the question, "Do you want bread?" After I got my do-it-yourself sandwich outside (Duncan's is takeout only), I also discovered that picking out bones (all the bones) would be my job, too. Fair amount of fish for the price, at least before the cost of my labor.

Duncan's Quality Fish Market
385 Myrtle Ave. (Clermont-Vanderbilt Aves.), Fort Greene, Brooklyn
718) 923-1115