[Photographs: Robyn Lee] Drinking apple cider is like drinking autumn. If I had a choice, I'd spend all of October gulping back the stuff and staring at pumpkins, particularly fat ones. My favorite cider right now is from Red...
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"Levent is actually part of a produce vending dynasty—he is a third-generation fruit hawker, following the footsteps of his grandfather and father in Turkey." Levent working around 3:30 p.m. Every day is a "CRAZY DAY" for Levent, a 24-year-old Turkish-born...
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From The New York Times: The city has approved 1,000 new mobile food carts for neighborhoods in all five boroughs known as "food deserts" where traditional supermarkets, grocery stores and farmers’ markets with fresh produce are scarce. When comparing prices...
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One of the only poems I have committed to memory is “Blackberry Eating,” by Galway Kinnell, a fourteen line homage to the pleasures of picking produce at the peak of ripeness. (The Italian term scorpacciata, loosely translated as gorging on...
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When I brought my great white apricots to my friends on the east end of Long Island I also brought out some sensational cheeses, a wonderful, crusty loaf of bread, and some lomo, cured Spanish pork loin that is so...
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On the way to visiting friends this weekends on the East End of LI I stopped at the Citarella on 75th and Broadway. Citarella's produce is consistently better than its next door neighbor Fairway, and on Saturday Citarella had...
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I seem to be on the pear diet. I eat at least two pears a day, and I hope that when I get on the scale Thursday, I'll be down ten pounds. Not bad for a fat food writer. A...
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