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Stop by the Grand Army Plaza Market This Saturday and Stock Up on Eat Drink...
With Eat Drink Local Week just two days away, it’s time to stock up on our 8 featured ingredients and get cooking! This year we’ve asked chefs and home cooks–like you!–to be creative and try recipes...
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DIY Sustainable Sushi
Sometimes I long for the days when we didn’t know so much about where our food came from. It just seems life would be easier if I didn’t walk around, constantly questioning whether pesticides were...
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Mother’s Little Helper
We typically regard anything pre-fab as not fab at all, but here’s the edible exception that proves the rule: pie dough from Flying Pigs Farm. The upstate purveyors of pedigree pork are all but...
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Bringing It All Back Home
Why one farmer gets up at 3 a.m. on a Saturday. PARK SLOPE—It’s 7:30 on Saturday morning at Grand Army Plaza, a stretch of asphalt at the northwest entrance of Prospect Park, and for myself and some...
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The Best of the Bunch
Photograph: Max Flatow Greenmarket groupies love to debate which farmer has the plushest plums, the hottest habaneros or the finest fennel. But when it comes to grapes, there’s no contest: The Blue...
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Agrarian Idol
Ex-chef Ray Bradley excels in a (muddy) new field. Lately the celebrity chef is starting to be supplanted by the celebrity farmer, to the point where “Agrarian Idol” will undoubtedly be headed soon to...
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Blue Moon Fish Hosts a Benefit for Two Fellow Greenmarket Farmers at Southpaw...
Ray Bradley, of Bradley Farm in New Paltz, at Grand Army Plaza; the majority of his fields were flooded after Irene. Speaking of Blue Moon Fish–yesterday we gave away two tickets to their sea-to-table...
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RECIPE: Honey, Thyme and Bourbon Snow Cones
Now that spring has finally graced us with its presence (I think), I’m ready to consume something a little lighter. And after such a harsh winter, I’m surprisingly craving more snow. Of course I’m...
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10 Brooklyn Markets to Eat at While It’s Fall
A blood orange doughnut from Dough at Smorgasburg. Flickr/gsz We are squarely in the middle of fall, with winter and the holiday season close on its heels. This time of year is ideal for visiting...
View ArticleAlison’s Eggs
It all started because Alison Cohen couldn’t get good eggs. Spring through fall, she shops at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, but doesn’t trek there in winter when it shrinks to only a few stands....
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Freshest Fish in the City
Call it a farmers market love story. Alex was a fisher from Long Island who sold his catch at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket every Saturday. Stephanie was a recent NYU grad working the orchard stand...
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What’s in the Jar?
What is it like to run a pickle business? Ask Rick Field, the Prospect Heights pickler behind Rick’s Picks. “Well, the emphasis is squarely on the second word,” he answers. Once a television producer...
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Eating in Iowa
DEAR GABRIELLE, It must have been the last week of October when I realized I’d never make it through the New Year. The air in Iowa City had a chill to it; patches of table at the farmers market...
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Market Relics
It started four years ago when I bought a new scanner. The first thing I scanned was a piece of fish I’d bought at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket. After that I made it a habit to get a really good...
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Oyster Town
Real Brooklyn oysters—the ones that still live, forgotten, off our bays and curvy coastlines—must be a lonely bunch these days. Thanks to state rules forbidding us to eat them—ignored, it’s rumored, by...
View ArticlePalo Santo
Stepping into Palo Santo is like stepping into an art installation. The tables and bar counter hold pebbles, coins, corks, chiles, rusty nails and pieces of wood, inlaid in resin like butterflies at a...
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Get To Know Jack
It’s 6 p.m. on a Saturday and the batting cage on the second floor of Park Slope’s Brooklyn Lyceum has just been put away. Would-be sluggers file out of the cavernous space, as the pings of aluminum...
View ArticleIn the Kitchen With Obits’ Sohrab Habibion
Sohrab Habibion was a founding member of the DC-based posthardcore/punk band Edsel and now rocks out in Brooklyn as guitar man in the prominent garage-punk quartet Obits. If you ever listened to...
View ArticleThe Slaughterhouse Problem
While it’s never been easier to buy pedigreed produce in Brooklyn, conscientious carnivores are asking: “Where’s the beef?” Not to mention pork, lamb and even poultry. The marbled-with-morals meats...
View ArticleA World of Influences Helps Make Filipino Fare Sublime
The first thing to know about Purple Yam— the pretty little place chef Romy Dorotan and his wife, Amy Besa, opened on Cortelyou Avenue not too far from their home in 2009—is that it is not your...
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