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Corner Stores: What's Your Favorite Food Find?

If you live in a big city, chances are there's a corner store nearby (or maybe you call it a bodega). These stores carry the requisite junk food, soda, newspapers and lottery tickets, but there are us...

Boston (and New York) Store Review: Formaggio Kitchen

Our problem with Formaggio Kitchen is two-fold: 1. They actively encourage our addiction to fine cheeses and cured meats. 2. Their selection of of these items is so vast that we haven't yet been able...

San Francisco Market: Ferry Building Marketplace

The Ferry Building is a historic building that opened in San Francisco in 1898 and was a major transportation hub in San Francisco before the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge were built. Damaged in ...

Web Resource: Zingerman's

The images above are exactly why we love browsing the Zingerman's website. All of the products are illustrated in the store's characteristic, whimsical style. And aren't cheese illustrations so much...

In the New York Times: Saul Zabar Turns 80

For any food lover living in New York, Zabar's is one of those institutions we naively believe has always been around and will always be around. Its crowded aisles and barking counterpeople seem like ...

Web Resource: Temple of Thai

Last week, we discussed Import Foods as an online resource for buying Thai food items and Thai cooking supplies. Today we'll share another Thai food resource....

Northern California Store Review: Oxbow Public Market in Napa

While in Napa last weekend, we visited the new Oxbow Public Market in downtown Napa. Oxbow is a large food hall where everything on sale is food-related in some way; from spices to tea, to wine and k...

Shopping for Ingredients in Chicago's Albany Park: Andy's Fruit Ranch and Al-Khyam Bakery

A recipe for vegetable skewers with muhamarra – our new favorite dip – from Supernatural Cooking by Heidi Swanson sent us to Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood this weekend. We were in search of o...

NYC Best Food Stores: A Foodie Walking Tour of Bleecker Street

Whenever food-loving visitors come from out of town, we take them to our favorite markets and restaurants. And we're always sure to lead them on a foodie walking tour of Greenwich Village's Bleecker S...

Company Profile: Terroir Coffee Company

Looking for a new coffee to wake you up first thing Monday morning? Look no further than Terroir Coffee Company, a small Massachusetts roaster trying to to make some big changes in the coffee industr...

The Spice Shop in London

Bleinhem Crescent is a fabulous little London oasis for the home cook, with the Books for Cooks bookshop/café and The Spice Shop right across the street. ...

San Francisco Market: Far West Fungi

Are you making mushroom soup? Do you want to try a matsutake mushroom? How about some truffle oil? Chances are, if you live in San Francisco, we know where you can find all these mushrooms, and mor...

San Francisco Market: 24th Street Cheese Company

After picking up fresh produce at the Noe Valley Farmer's Market, it's nice to stop into the 24th Street Cheese Company two doors down. When we open the door and walk in, we're hit with the aroma of ...

NYC Store Review: Buon Italia in Chelsea Market

Last week we sang the praises of Arthur Avenue, that bastion of authentic Italian food in the Bronx. Today, an option for those of us living a little farther south. Buon Italia is just one small store...

San Francisco Market: Bi-Rite

When we need a specialty item such as a jar of pickled Moroccan lemons or a wedge of Truffle Tremor cheese, or gourmet prepared meals, we head to Bi-Rite Market in the Mission. ...

NYC's Arthur Avenue: An Italian American Culinary Treasure

If you've never been to Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, you're missing out on one of New York's greatest culinary treasures. This tight knit and thriving Italian-American neighborhood is full of old-schoo...

Store Review: The Park Slope Food Coop

When it comes to the Park Slope Food Coop, unbelievers are everywhere. They say that there are too many rules, which are too stridently enforced. They complain about crowded aisles and long lines. The...

(Good) News from the Cheese Front: Murray's Cheese Partners With Kroger

I sometimes forget that fine cheese isn't so easy to find. I'm a spoiled New Yorker, and whether I'm close to home or work, I'm only a few moments away from a trusted purveyor of the kind of cheese...

Fog City News: San Francisco Market Review

One of our favorite places in San Francisco to shop for artisan chocolate is Fog City News. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary newsstand, but step inside, and it's a treasure trove of fine...

New York City Store Review: Russ & Daughters

San Francisco Grocery Review: Bombay Bazar

So you've decided to make your own Garam Masala, a fitting goal for any aspiring foodie. You do have copious amounts of cinnamon, green and black cardamom pods, cumin, coriander, cloves, nutmeg, ch...

Neighborhood Report: Fresh Kielbasa and Bargain Smoked Fish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

When Poland's first free elections were held in 1990, more than 7000 absentee ballots were cast from the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint. So it makes sense that cooks wanting authentic kielbasa,...

Sun Fat Seafood: San Francisco Market Review

I'm reluctant to talk about my favorite seafood market in San Francisco, but my mother taught me to play nice and share. And what a gem this place is! ...

Store Review: Urban Rustic

The John Deere tractor on the sign out front is your first clue that Urban Rustic isn't your average Brooklyn corner market. Stepping inside on a recent visit, we felt as if we'd suddenly been tran...