Books: A portable taste of Brooklyn

I was in beautiful Brooklyn last weekend, feeling like a Real Live New Yorker for a story you’re going to see in our October issue. Turns out Brooklyn is REALLY REALLY big--a fact that somehow escaped me even though I’ve looked at it on that map thingy in the Manhattan subway a million times. Thank god I had a copy of the Food Lovers’ Guide to Brooklyn by Sherri Eisenberg ($17, Globe Pequot Press) to help me pick restaurants or I would have been wandering the backstreets of Williamsburg begging hipsters for dining advice, which never goes well.