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The Father's Day Burger

When Josh & Brent put out the call for their Grilling Contest I had immediate thoughts of summers growing up in California, in a home without air conditioning.  This meant that for a good two months out of the year, my mother avoided turning on the oven at all costs. Steaks, pizzas, fruits – you name it, we threw it on the Webber. And thankfully, my dad was a master at grilling.

But with all the options for dinner from the grill, for me there's still nothing like a juicy burger. Preferably...

Episode 1 Recap

Episode 1

Woohoo, woohoo, let's all go to the farm, woohoo! Welcome to my first weekly recap of the Fabulous Beekman Boys, where I summarize Josh and Brent's farmlife adventures and decide whether what I've seen makes it more or less likely that I leave New York for a simpler life. I'll be ranking eevents in the episode using a scale of five goats, with one goat being the worst, and meaning there's no way I'm following their example and leaving  the city, and five goats meaning I'm calling a r...

Mary's Daisies

Mary Beekman is a four-year-old ghost who resides in The Beekman Mansion, and considers Brent and Josh her "imaginary friends." Follow Mary Beekman's Diary each week to learn what it's like to be a young child in early 19th century America

I was walking with the bigger girls today.  We found a large patch of white daisies with yellow centers.  The girls ran toward it and just sank down in the middle of them.   I don't know what they were giggling about.  Each girl picked a daisy and took...

A Day in the Life

Farmer John is the hardest working person in the barn at Beekman Farm.   During milking season (generally February through October), he milks the goats twice a day.  He's usually out in the barn by 5:00am and turns the lights off at the end of the day around 7:30pm.  Those aren't "bankers' hours"

Here's a look at how it all goes down

Empty Milking Stands



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Without his excellent care of the goats, the milk...

Raise Your Glasses!

This is a refined sipping party.

To enhance your viewing pleasure and to make each and every episode of The Fabulous Beekman Boys as fabulous as possible, we're going to encourage the playing of a nice parlor game.

Each week, we'll post a new Beekman 1802 elixir recipe for you to use and give you a new reason to "raise your glass"—to your mouth that is.

This week the beverage of choice is our sangria (click here for the recipe).

Raise your glass every time Brent and Josh have a "gentleman's...

Another Country

Can the Beekman Boys inspire this guy?

Cars.

Fumes.

Horns endlessly blaring horns.

Five bucks for a coffee.

Eight $  for a sandwich.

Trains that change their schedules every day.

Cabs that are never available.

People fucking everywhere.

Concrete.

Concrete is ugly.

And it's fucking everywhere.

Welcome to New York, the greatest city in the world.

I have lived here for eight years. Before that I was in Los Angeles, before that Chicago, before that London, before that Paris. Big ass cities, all of them. And w...

Sangria for Sipping

After a long hiatus, during which certain of life's other concerns made it difficult to find the time and quiet to write, I'm back… at least for now. And with summer officially starting in two weeks, Brent asked me to write about warm weather drinks "like Sangria etc."   That's a good point of departure, considering that Sangria is the Spanish word for a therapeutic bleeding, and my last post was on the movie "I Drink Your Blood". But once I've dealt with Sangria, there are many other...

Beekman – A Primer

A three minute tour of Beekman… Welcome!

We know that there are likely many of you visiting here for the first time, so we thought we'd show you around a little. (For those of you who've been our "internet neighbors" for a long time, please feel free to add in anything we've missed in the comments below.)

First off, we're Brent and Josh. Brent is a physician who used to work as "Dr Brent" at Martha Stewart Omnimedia. Josh is a writer, who also works in advertising. We've been together ten y...

Going Postal

At the time William Beekman operated his mercantile it most certainly would have served as a postal drop-off point—just one stop along the 2,000 miles of post roads that crept down the eastern coast of America.

From the mercantile, mail would be carried by stage coach to New York and then routed down the next leg of its journey.  (The famed Pony Express did not begin until around 1860 and was used explicitly to carry mail to the gold rushed west coast).

Growing up in the rural south, I can...

First Impressions

Before I first met the Beekman Boys, there were numerous phone conversations. Conversations where I had no idea which voice belonged Brent and which belonged to Josh.

Is the one with the southern accent the drag queen?  Is the funny one living at the farm, or is it the one that just wants to talk about scheduling?

As we looked over our calendars to choose the first weekend of filming and eventually settled on one just days away, I inquired about the activities that fill their typical...