White Flower Root Cellar’s December pop-up features vintage clothes, books and albums. (Photo credit: Bianca Munguia-Howie)
One of the things I love about the East End is how small businesses don’t just thrive, they often spur on and help each other out. As the daughter of a small business owner on Shelter Island, I saw up close how my dad and his friends would give each other a hand when it was needed, and that really stayed with me. It formed not just deeper connections with each other, but built community on the whole, too.
It was incredibly meaningful to both Bianca Munguia-Howie of All Hours NY vintage wares and Nick Amara of Forked Road Press, the collectible book and vinyl record purveyor, to be able to use the subterranean space at Nathanial Savage’s Root Cellar at White Flower.
Both of these locals have started their fledgling businesses mostly online, so to be able to connect with people in real life was a gift that Savage fully knows the value of. I’m really looking forward to seeing what else happens in the Root Cellar in 2024 (and how Munguia-Howie and Amara’s businesses will grow and change!).
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Amy Zavatto is the Editor-in-Chief for southforker, northforker and Long Island Wine Press. She's a wine, spirits, and food journalist whose work appears in Wine Enthusiast, InsideHook.com, MarthaStewart.com, the New York Post, Liquor.com, SevenFifty Daily, Imbibe, Men’s Journal and many others. She's the author of The Big Book of Bourbon Cocktails, Prosecco Made Me Do It: 60 Seriously Sparkling Cocktails, Forager’s Cocktails: Botanical Mixology with Fresh, Natural Ingredients, and The Architecture of the Cocktail. She is a respected judge for the American Craft Spirits Association’s annual small-production spirits competition, and has moderated numerous panels on the topics of wine, spirits, cocktails, and regional foodways. She is the former Deputy Editor for the regional celebratory publications, Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn, as well as the former Executive Director of the Long Island Merlot Alliance. She is a member of the New York chapter of the international organization of women leaders in food, wine, and spirits, Les Dames d’Escoffier. The proud daughter of a butcher, Amy is originally from Shelter Island, N.Y., where she developed a deep respect for the East End’s natural beauty and the importance of preserving and celebrating it and its people.
