Archive for 'Union Square Greenmarket'
PEARS: SHOPPING, COOKING, & EATING GUIDE
Pears are full of intrigue. Because they are usually rock-hard when you buy them, it’s difficult to gauge when they’ll be ready to eat and whether they’ll ultimately reward you with sweet, meltingly tender flesh. It’s no wonder that many shoppers pass them over for apples, which are immediately gratifying. But some things, as we well […]
Posted: December 7th, 2011 under baking, Christmas, cooking, Gourmet magazine, people + places, Union Square Greenmarket.
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APPLES: SHOPPING, COOKING, & EATING GUIDE
A visit to any farmers market this time of year will tell you that there are more apple varieties to choose from than ever before. You’ll find crates of rough-skinned heirloom russets plunked down next to more conventionally handsome Gala, Fuji, and Honeycrisp. Which are best for eating out of hand? For baking or applesauce? […]
Posted: November 29th, 2011 under autumn, baking, cooking, Union Square Greenmarket.
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MINESTRONE: A MARKET STORY
Most Saturdays, you’ll find me on the prowl for ingredients to turn into a dish with staying power, one that improves in flavor when made in advance and that will get us through part of a hectic week. In August, you might find an eggplant tian on our table (leftovers can be worked into pasta or provide […]
Posted: October 26th, 2011 under cooking, favorite books, Gourmet magazine, Market Stories, people + places, recipes, Union Square Greenmarket.
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CELERY ROOT, THE FROG PRINCE
New York, October, 1978. The restaurant? Les Pleiades. Tucked in the Surrey Hotel, at 20 East 76th Street, it was one of the city’s classic French “red room” restaurants and a legendary gathering place for art dealers, collectors, auction-house experts, and museum directors. The first course on everyone’s plate? Céleri rémoulade, impeccably cut matchsticks of raw […]
Posted: October 12th, 2011 under autumn, cookbooks, cooking, people + places, recipes, restaurants, Union Square Greenmarket.
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GRILLED ONIONS: A BUILDING BLOCK FOR SUMMER SCRATCH SUPPERS
The neat, workmanlike, and—let’s face it—really cute bunches of onions stopped me in my tracks. Vince D’Attolico, delighted at my reaction, unloaded the last of the crates from his Hudson Valley farm and stood back from his stand at Union Square to gauge the overall effect. “It’s a Dutch variety I haven’t tasted for twenty […]
Posted: August 16th, 2011 under cooking, recipes, scratch supper, summer, Union Square Greenmarket.
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SMOTHERED LETTUCE
I call New York City home, but I’m not from here. I grew up south of the Mason-Dixon, which is why I treasure the fact that local lettuces are available at the Greenmarket for most of the summer. Long after what I consider an early crop has disappeared, a variety like French Crisp, from grower Keith Stewart in […]
Posted: July 27th, 2011 under cookbooks, people + places, recipes, summer, Union Square Greenmarket.
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OBSESSION: SOUR CHERRIES
There were all sorts of things I meant to do this past weekend, but life took a turn. Plump, glossy sour cherries just appeared at the Greenmarket, and I had to seize the moment: They are perhaps the season’s most fleeting treasure, and I’d heard that our region’s cool, cloudy spring had resulted in a small […]
Posted: July 5th, 2011 under Gourmet magazine, obsession, recipes, summer, Union Square Greenmarket.
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SPUD LOVE: THE ÜBER TUBER
For all its unpretentious, knobbly familiarity, the potato is pretty fabulous. A rich source of vitamins (including a hefty amount of vitamin C), minerals (calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium), protein (essential amino acids), and complex carbohydrates, it has nourished humans ever since it was first domesticated in Peru, about 8,000 years ago.* Granted, it took a […]
Posted: June 28th, 2011 under cooking, favorite books, Gourmet magazine, recipes, summer, Union Square Greenmarket.
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EATING RADISHES AND BUTTER
It’s cool and rainy and we walk miles along the East River. The water is gray today and moving fast. So are we, breathing in the salt air and happy that we live on an island. On the way home, we run into friends and invite them over for an early supper. We stop for […]
Posted: May 17th, 2011 under cooking, favorite books, recipes, scratch supper, spring, Union Square Greenmarket.
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ASPARAGUS THREE WAYS
The first local asparagus stops people in their tracks. They bend over to get a closer look and marvel in the voice they usually reserve for newborns. At the Union Square Greenmarket, where I do a good bit of my shopping, asparagus usually arrives with lilacs and lilies-of-the-valley, a flower to which it is closely […]
Posted: May 4th, 2011 under cooking, culinary history, food, Gourmet magazine, people + places, recipes, spring, Union Square Greenmarket.
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