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Hugo
Location:United States, New York, New York
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Oyunchimeg Norpil
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Shamim Akhtar Nasar Ahmad Group


Shamim Akhtar Nasar Ahmad Group
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Photo Friday: Pasta alla Norma

This was my last attempt to like eggplant. More squishy bitter dirt vegetables for the rest of you!

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Washington Heights Dinner

Ingredients:
Avocado from a guy selling them two-for-$1 out of crates on Broadway
Tomatillo and cilantro from the 175th Street Greenmarket
Queso blanco from the new Mexican greengrocer on St. Nicholas Ave.
Limes from a street vendor on W181st Street
Black beans from Key Food near W187th

Halve avocados and scoop out some but not all of their flesh. Roughly chop [...]

Greenmarket Grub: San Marzano Tomatoes

What a rubbish summer 2009 was for tomatoes. I can’t remember eating even one really good tomato this year, which is just so depressing. Still, these San Marzano plum tomatoes were a flickering bright spot in an otherwise bad year.

Unlike a lot of tomatoes, San Marzanos are really meant for cooking—and if you’ve ever [...]

Greenmarket Grub: Concord Grapes

This isn’t a word I use often, but I must ask: aren’t they just gorgeous?

If you’ve only ever tasted supermarket grapes (as I had until last year), you have no idea what you’re missing. It’s an intensely… grapey flavor. After one grape, you will suddenly understand what artificial grape flavor is striving towards and [...]

Greenmarket Grub: Millport Dairy

Every week, I go to my Greenmarket with a $20. I could easily spend more, but my desire for buying things like leafy greens often outpaces my desire to cook said leafy greens in a timely manner. So, I set a $20 spending cap to feel slightly less bad when I’m throwing out slimy, wilted [...]