The following essay was written for the New Amsterdam Market blog, in preparation for New Amsterdam Market’s upcoming Winter Night Banquet. The multi-course dinner will be the first in a series of events that will inform and benefit the development of the New Amsterdam Market School of Regional Cookery, envisioned as a place where all New Yorkers [...]
Posts Tagged ‘markets’
The Menu Meeting
Posted in Winter 2010, tagged collaboration, history, markets on March 6, 2010 |
Still Too Small
Posted in Fall 09, tagged city planning, farmers markets, markets, restaurants, the future! on December 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is one in a series of short essays related to Myers’ work as a Forager for a chef in New York City. Each essay is focused simply on sharing something she has learned through her work, and is followed by photos taken while on the job. The farmers market at Union Square comes to [...]
Running on Wheels
Posted in Summer 09, tagged infrastructure, markets, transportation on October 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is one in a series of short essays related to Myers’ work as a Forager for a chef in New York City. Each essay is focused simply on sharing something she has learned through her work, and is followed by photos taken while on the job. When I bike to the restaurant from Brooklyn [...]
The Making of a Middlewoman
Posted in Summer 09, tagged collaboration, foraging, markets, restaurants on August 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Since the end of May this year, I have been working as a Forager for the Executive Chef of two New York City restaurants. I purchase local food, research food sources, track food prices, and cultivate a relationship between the chef and the producers of the food she cooks. While recognizing that to have a Forager [...]
Diner / Marlow & Sons: Caroline
Posted in New Amsterdam, Summer 08, tagged collaboration, history, markets on July 23, 2008 |
This post is the first in a series of essays written for the New Amsterdam Market. Each essay stems from a conversation between the author and a vendor who participated in the New Amsterdam Market of June 29th. The essays seek to address each vendor’s (food-related) enterprise, to highlight the reality behind their commitment to [...]
New Amsterdam Market: Courting New York
Posted in New Amsterdam, Summer 08, tagged history, markets, the future! on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The season has changed, and the Seaport story has progressed. Last December, as the cheese-grilling minion of the Saxelby table, I became one with the New Amsterdam Market. My unsuspecting frozen fingers flew round the knives and boards and cheese and pickles with a contagious rhythm, a pulse of energy I’d caught from the stands, [...]
New Amsterdam Market Returns to the Seaport!
Posted in New Amsterdam, Summer 08, tagged history, markets, the future! on June 26, 2008 |
The ongoing effort to establish a public, indoor, year-round market in Manhattan is alive and well, and this Sunday will gather a merry medley of regional food producers, purveyors, distributors, and supporters. Butchers and cheesemongers, bakers and foragers, chefs and farmers, picklers and ice cream makers will come together to celebrate the abundance of our region, the bounty [...]
A Marketable Pulse
Posted in New Amsterdam, Summer 08, tagged history, markets, the future! on June 6, 2008 |
After only two of my five recent months in Berkeley, I had come to notice and enjoy the youthful history of the place, a past of energy and resistance that confronted me at every corner. As I wrote in February, the history of Berkeley seemed to factor into every event I attended, every classroom I [...]
Brooklyn to Berkeley
Posted in Berkeley, Spring 08, tagged markets, place on January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My first afternoon here, on Shattuck and Telegraph Avenues, I might have been in any white, liberal town of the US. Like Asheville, North Carolina, or Northampton, Mass. Places I happen to love, where people check out my grandfather’s hat, youthful eyes curiously question my sexual orientation, and the source of my coffee cup represents [...]
Wintermarket: Makeshift Grills, Making History
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 07, tagged cheese, markets, the future! on December 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
As we sat down finally in the evening, each with a glass of wine or a beer, Benoit laughed at the silly, silent grins the three of us had let spread over our faces, our bodies propped up at the table in exhaustion. “We look like deflating balloons!” he said. “It is like our brains [...]
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