[Photo: Carey Jones] We've shown you the brick-and-mortar options for Thanksgiving shopping. But the Pilgrims didn't head to Citarella for their first holiday meal. If you're looking to draw from our land and support our local farmers, hit up...
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"Sorry, Dan Barber, but the greenhouse-grown raspberries were absolutely delicious." Greenhouse-grown raspberries from Fruit Valley Orchard in Oswego, New York We headed back to the Union Square Greenmarket this weekend, mainly to pick up some sheep’s milk ricotta from Valley...
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Based on the gloomy weather and still early-season date, we packed our reusable bags for Union Square over the weekend, home to New York City’s largest farmers' market, but out of curiosity, stopped by the Greenmarket at Grand Army...
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Arugula. Photograph from mecredis on Flickr Duck, Duck, Goose: Poultry abounds at the Union Square Greenmarket, where you can pick up pheasant eggs, chicken eggs, heirloom varieties of chicken, small chickens, ducks, turkeys, smoked turkeys, and belle rouge chickens [Lucy's...
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Mesclun. Photograph from thebittenword.com on Flickr Cusp: While winter vegetables and greens, along with meats and dairy from smoked poultry and venison to ice cream and yogurt, still dominate the Union Square Greenmarket, rumor has it that mesclun, harbinger...
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The long afternoon light cast a lazy hue yesterday on three of lower Manhattan's Greenmarkets. Most of New York's Greenmarkets aren't open on Sundays, but this cluster from Grand Street in Chinatown up through Tompkins Square Park to Stuyvesant/Peter...
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In Union Square today there are sugar snap peas, strawberries, fiddleheads, and ramps [Lucy's Greenmarket Report] More from Union Square... Honey Hollow Farms still has giant morels [Greenmarket Report] Tasting Vermont cheese at the Williamsburger Greenmarket [Brooklyn Cheese Mongers] A...
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