Name That Series
I'm breaking radio silence temporarily to make a request of my readers.
As you probably know, Robyn and I are taking the reins of the Barbes reading series this fall. (If you didn't, well, Robyn and I are taking the reins of the Barbes reading series this fall.) We've got tons of ideas for readers, marketing tools, and we even have a winning concept - we're going to bake and hand out cookies, which to me seems like a very nicemodernist gesture.
So we came up with a name we liked - Made from Scratch. But Barbes management suggests we might like to have something that implies a little bit more of a serious effort on the part of the writers, so I'm trying to come up with something that combines a love of refined sugar with literariness, urban sophistication, and quasi-nicemodernism. So much the better if it's vaguely French, since Barbes itself is vaguely Parisian. (Something involving madeleines would have been perfect but for the fact that before it conjures up Proust it conjures up an image of straw-hatted schoolgirls walking in two straight lines and therefore doesn't quite fit our image either.)
I'll up the stakes - if you're local, and you suggest a name that everyone concerned approves of and winds up using, I'll bake you a dozen of my famous peanut-butter-oatmeal-chocolate-chip-M&M cookies. (Or, if you're allergic to nuts or something, a dozen of the cookie of your choice.) If you're not local and you suggest a good name, I'll send you a lovely handmade thank-you card and make sure everyone knows it was your idea.
Comment here or email your ideas to jessliese at gmail dot com. Management thanks you in advance for your support.
As you probably know, Robyn and I are taking the reins of the Barbes reading series this fall. (If you didn't, well, Robyn and I are taking the reins of the Barbes reading series this fall.) We've got tons of ideas for readers, marketing tools, and we even have a winning concept - we're going to bake and hand out cookies, which to me seems like a very nicemodernist gesture.
So we came up with a name we liked - Made from Scratch. But Barbes management suggests we might like to have something that implies a little bit more of a serious effort on the part of the writers, so I'm trying to come up with something that combines a love of refined sugar with literariness, urban sophistication, and quasi-nicemodernism. So much the better if it's vaguely French, since Barbes itself is vaguely Parisian. (Something involving madeleines would have been perfect but for the fact that before it conjures up Proust it conjures up an image of straw-hatted schoolgirls walking in two straight lines and therefore doesn't quite fit our image either.)
I'll up the stakes - if you're local, and you suggest a name that everyone concerned approves of and winds up using, I'll bake you a dozen of my famous peanut-butter-oatmeal-chocolate-chip-M&M cookies. (Or, if you're allergic to nuts or something, a dozen of the cookie of your choice.) If you're not local and you suggest a good name, I'll send you a lovely handmade thank-you card and make sure everyone knows it was your idea.
Comment here or email your ideas to jessliese at gmail dot com. Management thanks you in advance for your support.
7 Comments:
Well, "french" and "refined sugar" made me think of "The French Confection" as an option. But then I immediately thought "hmm...that sounds like a wedding cake bakery" and sure enough, a Google search turns up a ton of bakeries by that name that specialize in weddings. So, I'll keep thinking.
How about "Sweet Treatise(s)"?
"Series Ganache - Dark, Sweet, Heavy, Mysterious."
"La Belle Label" would make a nice brand-name perhaps, but as for the cookies themselves.. hmm.
"Rive Gauche" / "Left Bank" (Brooklyn is on the left of the East River, isn't it?)
The Cavity Cavalcade!
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