The Best Made Customer: Matt Dorfman, Brooklyn, NY Best Made has the best customers on the planet and to tell their stories we publish their answers to “The Ten Best Made Questions”. Pictured above: Matt Dorfman in the photo booth at The Bell House music hall in Brooklyn (during a live show). To our knowledge this is a first, and Matt assured us the staff didn’t seem to mind (or notice) that he was wielding a large felling axe around the bar! Go Matt. - what’s the weather like where you are?The humidity index is slowly creeping north. It doesn’t feel like a swamp just yet, but all the elements to make it so are in place. - what’s your most valuable piece of advice today?Opportunity does not present itself at a moment of your comfort or convenience.- what is the best thing your father ever taught you?It’s not the problem that’s the problem. It’s how you handle the problem that’s the problem.- what is the best thing your mother ever taught you?She taught me that I’m not the center of the universe, (she is, naturally).- what skill, trade, craft, or hobby would you like to learn most and why?I keep trying to think of something better than a pitmaster, but I can’t. As I’ve gotten older, cooking’s become more important to me, but my kitchen instincts, while competent, are hardly anything to write home about. Mastering a craft like BBQ would satisfy my desire to get wise in at least one dedicated area of culinary prep and execution. Moreover, in order to do it properly, time and concentration are required and I’m interested in having at least one task throughout my month which requires focus on a singular project over an extended block of time. Not only that, but BBQ has the power to bring friends and family together so it has the added draw of pooling good company. Lastly, (and I can’t imagine I’m telling anyone the news here), but BBQ is absolutely delicious, so there’s that also. Dear Lord, please make me a BBQ pitmaster.- if you could be outside right now, working, what would you be doing?I’d be dogwalking. Presently, we have a no-pet clause in our building and it’s driving us crazy. My occasional high-fives with the neighborhood dogs tied up beside the market is not a satisfactory equivalent. Ideally, I would be walking a Bull Mastiff, a Dane, two Boxers, two mutts and an English Bulldog. We’d be an unstoppable army. I’d probably have to gain some weight to pull this one off.- what problem would you like solved?Oil dependence—foreign and domestic. That seems to have created a few unnecessary spats over the past half century. Once that’s taken care of, we can move on to addressing the issue of humanity’s disproportionately big mouth in relation to its ear.- what’s your favourite answer to a question?“Again?!” Matt Dorfman is a graphic designer and illustrator living in Brooklyn, just like a few other people. Counted among his work accomplishments, he once typeset a public apology to Tom Waits in Italian. He has also climbed the Precipice in Acadia National Park while wearing Vans without socks. Additionally, he once successfully reclaimed both a camera and a sketchbook from a man who was mugging him with a syringe on Easter Sunday of 1997. But he has yet to find a suitable piece of wood with which to chop. His most current work can be seen here.
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The Best Made Customer: Matt Dorfman, Brooklyn, NY

Best Made has the best customers on the planet and to tell their stories we publish their answers to “The Ten Best Made Questions”. Pictured above: Matt Dorfman in the photo booth at The Bell House music hall in Brooklyn (during a live show). To our knowledge this is a first, and Matt assured us the staff didn’t seem to mind (or notice) that he was wielding a large felling axe around the bar! Go Matt.

- what’s the weather like where you are?

The humidity index is slowly creeping north. It doesn’t feel like a swamp just yet, but all the elements to make it so are in place. 

- what’s your most valuable piece of advice today?

Opportunity does not present itself at a moment of your comfort or convenience.

- what is the best thing your father ever taught you?

It’s not the problem that’s the problem. It’s how you handle the problem that’s the problem.

- what is the best thing your mother ever taught you?

She taught me that I’m not the center of the universe, (she is, naturally).

- what skill, trade, craft, or hobby would you like to learn most and why?

I keep trying to think of something better than a pitmaster, but I can’t. As I’ve gotten older, cooking’s become more important to me, but my kitchen instincts, while competent, are hardly anything to write home about. Mastering a craft like BBQ would satisfy my desire to get wise in at least one dedicated area of culinary prep and execution. Moreover, in order to do it properly, time and concentration are required and I’m interested in having at least one task throughout my month which requires focus on a singular project over an extended block of time. Not only that, but BBQ has the power to bring friends and family together so it has the added draw of pooling good company. Lastly, (and I can’t imagine I’m telling anyone the news here), but BBQ is absolutely delicious, so there’s that also. Dear Lord, please make me a BBQ pitmaster.

- if you could be outside right now, working, what would you be doing?

I’d be dogwalking. Presently, we have a no-pet clause in our building and it’s driving us crazy. My occasional high-fives with the neighborhood dogs tied up beside the market is not a satisfactory equivalent. 

Ideally, I would be walking a Bull Mastiff, a Dane, two Boxers, two mutts and an English Bulldog. We’d be an unstoppable army. I’d probably have to gain some weight to pull this one off.

- what problem would you like solved?

Oil dependence—foreign and domestic. That seems to have created a few unnecessary spats over the past half century. Once that’s taken care of, we can move on to addressing the issue of humanity’s disproportionately big mouth in relation to its ear.

- what’s your favourite answer to a question?

“Again?!”

Matt Dorfman is a graphic designer and illustrator living in Brooklyn, just like a few other people. Counted among his work accomplishments, he once typeset a public apology to Tom Waits in Italian. He has also climbed the Precipice in Acadia National Park while wearing Vans without socks. Additionally, he once successfully reclaimed both a camera and a sketchbook from a man who was mugging him with a syringe on Easter Sunday of 1997. But he has yet to find a suitable piece of wood with which to chop. His most current work can be seen here.


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