This weekend the New Amsterdam Market was putting on a special weekend long Valentine's Day Market. The New Amsterdam Market was originally started as a pop-up market consisting of all local vendors and purveyors, meant as a way to stimulate the local economy and somewhat based on the fabulous markets of a New York of yesteryear. I fully back the New Amsterdam Market's mission and think all of their markets I have been to have been unique, wonderful, and amazing. That is except this one. Housed inside the New Amsterdam Market school (who knew they had a school? I didn't!), this was a market specializing in Valentine's day gifts -- candies from Liddabit Sweets, of course chocolates from Mast Brothers; ice cream from The Bent Spoon; homemade syrups and sodas from P&H sodas, nuts, heirlooms citrus, and teas from Terra Cura Botanticals. Yes, it was a nice selection of homemade local goods but I felt that it was supremely lacking!
A Valentine's Day market shouldn't just focus on sweets, teas, chocolates, and the such! Where are the heart shaped cheeses like the aged Goat's milk special production cheese from Coach Barn? Or even heart shaped breads? I bet you could find that at Amy's Bread. Just because the tradition is sweets for your sweet, why should an nontraditional market try to conform to tradition?
So folks, tomorrow I will provide you with three recommendations for Valentine's Day cheeses, who ever said that cheese couldn't be an aphrodisiac right?
I look forward to warmer weather when the New Amsterdam Market can resume its outdoor locale with diverse, distinct, and delish local produce and purveyors.
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