MY FRIDAY MORNING RITUAL is to visit my neighborhood farmers’ market on West 97th Street, often with one friend or another who lives nearby....
Basia HellwigSeptember 28, 2012ABUNDANCE! I GO TO THE FARMERS’ MARKET year-round, but there’s nothing like the pleasure of seeing pristine summer crops piled up one after...
Basia HellwigAugust 11, 2012LATE IN THE AFTERNOON on the last day of winter, there were definite signs that the season was changing. The 70º temperature...
Basia HellwigMarch 19, 2012I KNOW IT’S OFFICIALLY AUTUMN, but I’m not at all ready to say, ‘goodbye summer’ yet. Despite tropical storm Irene—and the date on...
Basia HellwigSeptember 28, 2011Welcome signs of spring...after a long, long winter. [caption id="attachment_1240" align="alignnone"]Ramps, or wild leeks, pop up the earliest. If you're not lucky enough...
Basia HellwigMay 22, 2011WHOLE GRAINS, FLOURS, BREAD—it’s Greenmarket Grains Week—cauliflower, winter greens, squash and…Peter Hoffman, chef/owner of the restaurants Savoy and Back Forty, doing a cooking demo...
Basia HellwigNovember 20, 2010JUST LIKE HAVING KIDS makes you feel the years pass in a particularly poignant way, so do weekly visits to the farmers’ market....
Basia HellwigOctober 19, 2010MUCH AS I LOVE NEW YORK CITY’S GREENMARKETS, the farmers’ market closest to my heart will probably always be Montreal’s Jean-Talon Market, perhaps...
Basia HellwigOctober 4, 2010When you grow cherry tomatoes in the garden, very few ever seem to make it into the kitchen for a meal, so...
Basia HellwigSeptember 11, 2010I WAS SORRY TO HAVE MISSED NEW AMSTERDAM MARKET in NYC this Sunday. The only consolation was that I was actually in farm country enjoying...
Basia HellwigAugust 23, 2010