Intelligencer - Cooking the Goose in Clinton Hill

Evyn Block and Adam Sachs’s home renovation was always going to celebrate cooking. Which makes sense: Sachs, a food writer, was for a time editor-in-chief of Saveur; his wife owns her own PR firm and was once marketing director for Daniel Boulud. When they bought the 1860 townhouse in 2011, it had been divided into four apartments. “The parlor floor had been a living room, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom that still haunts me,” Sachs says. The renovation of the parlor floor included taking down the brick wall at the rear of the room, part of an extension that hid a tiny, cramped kitchen. They discovered a fireplace behind a wall, and their architect, Elizabeth Roberts, encouraged Sachs to open the flue and consider a cooking fireplace: A goose was sizzling inside it when I came to visit.