Sunday, July 31, 2011

Day 537 : A report on today's New Amsterdam Market

The New Amsterdam Market is one of my favorite markets around town -- it seeks to bring back the markets of a New York City of yesteryear where one knew their butcher, baker, and bread maker. Local produce, local purveyors, stimulating the local economy and bringing the community together over food and drink. Only on Sundays, it surely is the sort of market that is worth trekking to.

Today's market showcased summer's bounty -- there were many stalls teaming with fresh peaches, tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelons, eggplants, herbs, lettuces and more. If you, like me, love fresh produce, then you would have been in heaven!

But there wasn't just fantastic fresh produce -- there were plenty of prepared foods as well -- People's Pops featuring homemade shave ice and ice pops; and Luke's Lobster with homemade lobster rolls to name a few. Along with locally homemade products like the delish and Fromagical favorite, Nordic Breads; Schoolhouse Kitchen with yummy Horseradish Dill mustard and homemade jams; and Pie Corps with homemade savory and sweet pies among many other vendors.

Of course there were your creameries too, ones that you don't find at other Greenmarkets around town -- Painted Goat Farm from Upstate New York offering fresh infused chevres and bloomy rind aged goat's milk cheeses and the Cellars at Jasper Hill from Greensboro, Vermont, offering a few of their artisanal cheeses including their Bayley Hazen Blue (a Fromagical blue cheese fave) and Cabot Clothbound Cheddar.

If you're looking for an excellent staycation Sunday late morning / early afternoon idea -- grab your New York Times, head on down to the New Amsterdam Market, get some goodies to nibble on for now and some to save for later, and then head on over to Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club and sit in the sun with your newspaper and a drink and look out at the Brooklyn Bridge and the water and imagine you are thousands of miles away.

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