GREENMARKET
With temperatures dipping, most of us are craving comfort food. The delicately sweet flavor of squash provides a satisfying addition to any autumn meal. Butternut, acorn, banana, ambercup. The varieties are endless. Although squash is categorized as either "summer" or "winter", both types are usually available year round. For the largest selection of winter squash October and November are prime months.
Here's a great recipe from Williams-Sonoma that marries the sweetness of butternut squash to the tart flavors of Granny Smith apples. Stop by the Greenmarket at Union Square to stock up on ingredients.
Something very big is coming to New York City, something that has never been done before in America. Hint: if it smells like Latin flavors, sounds like Latin music, and tastes like Latin wine, it must be a Gourmet Latino Festival taking place from June 4-12, 2010. (Tickets for the event are available at www.gourmetlatinofestival.com). Taking place at the Astor Center, the festival aims to showcase Latin gastronomy, through which a deeper awareness of the culture and soul of Latin America can be understood and appreciated.
Whatisfresh.com
www.whatisfresh.com
Do you want to buy fresh, local, or organic ingredients but cannot find a farmers market, and when you do, they do not have your product, so you end up spending double the money at Whole Foods? Well, finally someone--Michael Horn to be specific--figured out that people want to get their hands on locally grown ingredients, but are finding it hard to track them down. Like many of us, Michael Horn understood that farmers markets needed to get off the streets and out of parks and on to the internet, and that is just what he did with his invention of Whatisfresh.com.
Northern Spy Food Company
511 East 12th Street
(Between Ave. A & Ave. B)
New York,
NY 10009
(212) 228-5100
www.northernspyfoodco.com
Named after New York State's Northern Spy apple-juicy, crisp and mildly sweet-Northern Spy Food Co is a greenmarket based restaurant. Buying directly from local farmers and purveyors, Northern Spy Food Co picks up any local ingredients-vegetables, fruit, breads, etc.-they can find from Union Square's Farmers Market. Priding themselves on using local and sustainable ingredients, the Northern Spy Food Co produces food that is not only nourishing, but sybaritic.
On Sunday, February 1st, a man who for years showed New Yorkers the best way to cut vegetables had his own life sadly cut short. The Greenmarket at Union Square will be a little bit quieter this week, as the unmistakably British accent of the always impeccably-dressed Joe Ades, which for years could be heard every weekend good-naturedly bantering with customers and pitching his famous potato peelers, will be conspicuous in its absence.
But Mr. Ades was more than just a street vendor. He was an actor, a character, and most of all, a fixture in the Union Square Greenmarket scene. James Barron of the New York Times wrote that, “His was a particular kind of street theatre in a city that delights in in-your-face characters who are, and are not, what they seem. For he was the sidewalk pitchman with the Upper East Side apartment. The sidewalk pitchman who was a regular at expensive East Side restaurants, where no one believed his answer to the ‘so what do you do?’ questions: ‘I sell potato peelers in the street.’”
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