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We frequently show you what's popping up at the Union Square and Grand Army Plaza Greenmarkets, but there are many small markets tucked into corners of the city that deserve a mention.

One of these is the Green Flea on Columbus Avenue and 76th Street, which is open on Sundays, year-round. It is primarily a flea market, but there is one section devoted to fresh produce, flowers, and baked goods. Click below to see what we found on Sunday...

We're moving into this kitchen tomorrow. Well, the apartment that holds this kitchen. And right after we make our bed, we'll start unpacking our pots, pans, and plates.

It's been a long, hard, slog of a move — one that makes us think we'll want to answer the above question by crying, "Takeout!" But it's our new home, with a new kitchen, and we'd like to christen it with a memorable meal...

Last Friday we mentioned that this Spaghetti with Ramps recipe from Mario Batali looked like our kind of weekend eating. So, we made it — with a few (delicious) changes...

We're guessing that a lot of mothers across the country were served breakfast in bed on Sunday. Something about waking up to a tray of eggs, coffee, perhaps a flower in a bud vase is considered the ultimate in pampering.

However, we're not big fans of eating in bed. It's often awkward, cumbersome, and messy, trying to navigate around a wobbly tray.

A new Piggly Wiggly store opened in Myrtle Beach, SC, last month, and it is laid out in an unconventional way.

Instead of the traditional model — produce on one side, dairy in the back — the store is organized by how shoppers think about meals, according to an article in Gourmet News. Cereal is stocked next to the milk. Canned and fresh fruits and vegetables are in the same area...

A miniature avocado? A tiny, unripe mango? Nope. Like the fresh garbanzo beans we showed you last week, this is a common food seen in an uncommon state. Take a guess and click below to find out the answer...

We've written about pickling them, we've sautéed them with salmon, and we've shown up late at the farmer's market and missed them...

Are you tired of hearing about ramps? Well, their season is short, so we're striking while the iron is hot. Here's another dish, one we really want to make this weekend: Spaghetti with Ramps.

Click below for more information on this super simple recipe from a celebrity chef...

We've written about serving dinner party food in tiny, individual dishes, and now we're hitting the other end of the spectrum: family-style entertaining. There are many advantages to piling food onto platters and into big bowls. Let us share a few...

Over at AT:LA, Abby posted 20 household uses for newspaper besides just tossing it in the recycling bin. Then, last night, we saw a food-related use that we thought we'd pass on to the Kitchn readers...

There have been several comments about the industrial-sized roll of plastic wrap on chef Dan Kluger's counter, pictured in yesterday's Brooklyn Kitchen Tour.

Personally, we lack the counter space for a box this big, but if you're itching for 2000 feet of plastic wrap, we found some sources for you...

Also, have you ever seen a monk fish up close?

Even if you aren't growing your own watercress, you can easily make a homemade vinaigrette. We never buy bottled salad dressing — it's just too easy to make our own, minus the preservatives that come in a lot of brands. So let us offer a quick primer...

This was a tough recipe to name. There's a lot going on in this salad.

To be fair — and we're not sure how we feel about admitting this — we could have named it the "Top Chef-Inspired Salad," since the urge to add rice came from last week's episode. But our version is nothing like the one on TV, and it was so hearty and complex that we felt the need to tack on almost every ingredient to the title...

Did you have a Cinco de Mayo fiesta last night? Got leftover bags of tortilla chips? We were just reading the May issue of Southern Living, which has a recipe for pork tenderloin crusted in crushed tortilla chips, and we thought the idea was a good one for using up half-empty bags...

Kristin's lovely pictures of herb-filled window boxes in London brought up some comments about strangers stealing herbs or, worse, um, "watering" them. And yet we love the idea of planting a small herb garden and hanging it out the window — especially since we live in a high-rise building with no fire escape.

Then we remembered a man in our former building who hung his window boxes on interior windows that only his neighbors could see...

In Week Seven of the Kitchn Cure, Sara Kate is challenging you to learn a new skill. It could be as simple as properly dicing an onion or as complicated as rolling out pasta.

This reminded us of several years ago, when we discovered something extremely elementary about chicken breasts, and how it changed our cooking confidence forever...

We've discussed the virtues of baking stones in our ovens. We've shown you the beauty of pizza on the grill. And now, in the name of synergy, let us introduce you to the Pizza-Que Pizza Stone from Williams-Sonoma.

It's a pizza stone for your grill. What do you think? Useful or overkill?

If you want the benefit of CSA produce but don't have time to pick it up every week, Farm Share may be your solution. We had never heard of it and are curious if anyone in the New York Kitchn community has tried it out...

There are some wonderful foods out there that come rolled up in something else. Chimichangas, cabbage rolls, and the vegetable summer rolls we posted this week.

But putting in the right amount of filling can sometimes be hard. Too little, and it's all wrap, no flavor. Too much, and you fight to get the roll rolled. We have a few tips...

Of course, this week was different — not exactly the Top Cheffiest of Top Chef episodes.

Note: We reveal the winner and loser after the jump...

Packing is a pain, especially when it comes to stacks of dishes. We're in the process of moving, and we just pulled out our padded china cozies. They hold our expensive dishes all the time but are especially comforting when we schlep china across town.

Yes, we know, we have a lot of china. See what it looks like below...

We noticed a lot of people with their cameras out this morning in Union Square. Photogenic spring produce, like this bountiful pile of scallions, is finally becoming more plentiful in New York.

See radishes, asparagus, and spinach below...