Archive for June, 2013
NOTES FROM AN ARMCHAIR FARMER
Good cookbooks are soothing and aspirational all at once. They fall squarely in the “I can dream can’t I?” department, which must be why many people like to read them before they go to bed. I used to be one of them. A few years ago, though, I branched out with an evocative, beautifully illustrated […]
Posted: June 25th, 2013 under cooking, favorite books, people + places, Union Square Greenmarket.
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NEVER TOO MUCH JUNE
“There’s never too much June,” my mother would declare this time of year. No kidding. After a long, cold spring (on May 28, Climate Central tweeted there had been more daily record lows by that date than in all of 2012), kitchen and market gardeners are racing to catch up to the calendar. And, at last, […]
Posted: June 18th, 2013 under food, recipes, summer, Union Square Greenmarket.
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SOME PIG, SOME PARTY: BIG APPLE BARBECUE
I may live in New York City, but I don’t much care for crowds, which is why you will never find me at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, the lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, the Belmont Stakes, or any concert any time in Central Park. That’s what television is for. But I […]
Posted: June 11th, 2013 under barbecue, people + places, restaurants, summer.
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A ROSY TIDE OF RHUBARB
I came to rhubarb relatively late in life. It’s not something I grew up with, and a few slices of generically sweet strawberry-rhubarb pie (and one brief encounter with a slithery compote) left me, shall I say, underwhelmed. That is, until about five years ago, when gardening friends from Edinburgh taught me a thing or […]
Posted: June 4th, 2013 under cooking, recipes, Union Square Greenmarket.
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