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Locavore Thanksgiving: Your Guide To Holiday Shopping At Farmers' Markets

[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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Chocolate Chip Cookie Championship: The Midtown(ish) Edition

In the latest installment of our Chocolate Chip Cookie Championship, we taste around the middle of Manhattan. And our winner may shock you.

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More on Joe: Pumpkin Muffins

[Photo: Kathy Chan] I was waiting in line at Joe's the other day when I spotted this pumpkin muffin baked by Bread Alone. And considering my goal to hunt down every delicious pumpkin sweet in the city, I couldn't...

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The Salty Pimp from the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck

[Photographs: Robyn Lee] You still have a few hours tonight and all day tomorrow to visit the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck before Doug Quint closes for the season tomorrow night. I stopped by this afternoon to fit in...

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Sugar Rush: Twee Fountain Herb Farm

Spotted at the Union Square Greenmarket this past Saturday: lemon & herb popsicles from Twee Fountain Herb Farm, on the southern end of Union Square West. At $2 each, the popsicles come in a trio of flavors perfect for...

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Coffee Chronicles: Intelligentsia Coffee Meets Van Leeuwen Ice Cream

"I'm sure you've never thought of an affogato as street food, but I also never thought I'd be drinking Intelligentsia coffee from a truck." [Photographs: Allison Hemler] If you've ever wanted a dish of ice cream for breakfast, now's your...

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Lunch for One: Prix Fixe at Aldea

"If it's a good deal and ordinary dishes you're searching for, mosey on over for some very solid cooking." [Photographs: Kathy Chan] You will not find a true sense of Aldea's scope and potential in their newly launched lunch prix...

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The Dessert Files: The Adore

It started with the apple dumpling. Early one morning, I passed a bakery on 13th Street and stopped to look through the glass windows. There was a tray filled with muffins on one end, scones on the other, and...

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TGI Friday's and Tim Hortons Come To Union Square

In one more step toward the Midtown-ification of Union Square, restaurant management monolith the Riese Organization has purchased 34 Union Square East, unoccupied since now-foundering vegetarian chain Zen Palate moved out almost two years ago. Their intentions? "Tentative plans...

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Hitting The Greenmarket Like A Pro

Photo from Tasting Table The Union Square Greenmarket draws its fair share of home cooks, tourists, and passing apple-grazers, but the real champion shoppers are professional chefs—or, in the case of the bigger-name establishments, the capable delegates they send out...

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