Thanksgiving approaches at the city's Greenmarkets...
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Fall is approaching, but even as the winter squash begin to arrive, summer produce is still going strong at the market. We saw everything this week, including pears, pumpkins, tomatoes, eggplant, heirloom tomatoes, spiky cucumbers, pluots, black walnuts, and much more. Click through the slideshow for a closer look.
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As August begins to wind down, it can start to feel like summer's over. If you find yourself in these doldrums, head to your local Greenmarket: it's positively bursting with peak season goodness, from tomatoes to corn to peaches and plums and more. Being in Union Square this week, it felt like we were just getting started.
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This week it got hot in New York, and while it felt like full blown summer in the city, the market was there to remind us that it's spring. Still, summer—strawberries and all—is coming up fast. In addition to the early strawberries, green garlic was everywhere this week, as were asparagus, the last ramps, and other assorted goodies.
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This week at the Greenmarket, the slow trickle of spring vegetables continued, most notably with the arrival of asparagus. While we wait to see the rest of the exciting spring bounty, there are still tons of great items at the market, albeit less seasonal ones: this week, we saw everything from fresh chickens to kimchi to maple cotton candy. Click through the slideshow to see!
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Starting today, more Greenmarkets in New York City will accept food scraps to create compost as part of a GrowNYC pilot program that runs now until June 25.
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Rachael Mamane took her dedication to nose-to-tail eating, her love for cooking, and mixed it with her connections to local farmers to create
Brooklyn Bouillon. This up-and-coming company creates stocks and demi-glaces using ingredients straight from Greenmarket farmers, with no additives, and makes them available to home cooks.
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Thanksgiving may be the most important home-cooked meal of the year. It holds, then, that you should be looking for the very best ingredients to cook with. Where better to go than the Greenmarket?
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Summer's grace period is officially over—the fall is in full swing at the market, and even my skills of denial are powerless against the approaching winter. The last of the tomatoes are hanging on by a thread, the market smells...
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It may be well into October, but a lot of summer vegetables are still available at the market, making for some strange bedfellows: pumpkins and tomatoes, together at last. Click through the slideshow for more of what we saw this...
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