After spending six hours of my Saturday hearing how totally awesome (and spit-take expensive) The New School‘s programs are, I ran a little reconnaissance mission through the Union Square Greenmarket, seeing as I was just a couple blocks away anyway. It being Saturday — the day when the most vendors are there — I figured the selection would be the best.

Here’s what I saw:

• potatoes
• onions
• apples
• slightly aged cabbages
• cheese
• yogurt
• eggs
• chicken
• bacon
• pork
• lamb
• honey¹
• baby greens
• maple syrup
• bread
• bison

I think there’s a couple more things I can get from Whole Foods (butter comes to mind) but dang.

I’m still trying to figure out what I’m going to make for dinner with that — never mind think about any other meal of the day.

This is definitely going to be harder than I thought.

1. Speaking of honey, you should read my Accidental Hedonist post about the sudden disappearance of honey bees, although I’m still a little peeved that I didn’t get a decent quote from anyone I talked to about it. [↩]