a bite of the big apple – union square green market

I went to an incredible market this weekend in New York. It was beautiful. The Union Square Green Market is notoriously popular with local NYC chefs (especially those that are following the farm to table movement) and the offerings are extravagantly abundant. Spectacular fall produce was everywhere, ogled by about ten thousand hungry shoppers. The market provides an outlet for local New York farmers and artisans; cheese, meat, wool, honey, wine, cider, vegetables, seafood, plants, pies, cakes… I’ll take one of everything, please. You can tell that the vegetables are grown on someone’s personal farm because they are giant and funky, not tiny and perfect. Oh man, everything was so gorgeous. We would have had a bizarre but delicious meal of market menagerie had we been home that night.

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