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San Francisco Farmer's Market Report: Crocker Galleria

Cherry tomatoes and varieties of squash and bitter melon Yesterday we hopped to the Crocker Galleria Farmer's Market to pick up a bag of edible flower salad greens from Happy Boy Farms, and snapped t...

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...

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 Farmer's Market Report: Noe Valley

Delicious radishes The Noe Valley Farmer's Market is located at 3861 24th Street, between Sanchez and Vicksburg Streets and is held every Saturday from 8 AM to 1 PM. It's a smaller than the other tw...

San Francisco Market Report: Ferry Building Farmer's Market

Here's a roundup of what's fresh at the Ferry Building Farmer's Market in San Francisco this week! The photo above shows a small sampling of our haul. Clockwise from top: baby dandelion greens, drie...

Store Review: Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks

We admit it. We have a cookbook addiction. Our bookshelves are overflowing, and yet we keep buying them. In New York, our favorite place to feed that delicious addiction is Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks. ...

Small Business Spotlight: La Quercia Artisan Cured Meats

These days, whenever we mention the Midwest, it seems like all we talk about are the politics of corn, CAFOs, or other unpleasant realities of our current food culture. So it's nice when a small busin...

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...

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...

Store Review: New York Cake & Baking Supply

This store is not unlike the act of baking itself - slightly messy, occasionally overwhelming, but ultimately satisfying in the sweetest way. On our last visit, we overheard the following conversa...

Sweet Maria's Home Coffee Roasting Supplies: Online

In the world of intense coffee passion and - dare we say it - geekery, Sweet Maria's looms large. If you have ever even considered roasting coffee yourself, then you've almost certainly checked out ...

Specialty Bottle: Online

We are big fans of label-free living and cutting down on visual clutter. Getting your dish soap into a small bottle also saves precious counter space. So we're always on the lookout for good sources f...

Stacks and Stacks: Online

Sur La Table: Online

Sur La Table, French for On the table, first opened in Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1972, selling gourmet cooking paraphernalia.Their stores are known for the high quality of their brands and mercha...

Sahadi's: Brooklyn, NY

Sahadis, a Middle Eastern Mecca in downtown Brooklyn, is known for their dried fruits (try the amazing unsweetened pineapple $4.50/lb, and the inexpensive no sulfur apricots, $2.60/lb), nuts and ol...

Stinky Bklyn

Stinky Bklyn has a very friendly atmosphere, stocking a variety of charcuterie, oils, sauces, and chocolates, as well as cheese. The staff seemed knowledgeable, eager to help and the quirky take on ra...

Surfas Commercial Kitchen Supply

Hello Los Angeles! One of the pleasures of going to a new city is finding the shops you don't have in your own city. As our world gets smaller and smaller, this is an experience that is harder to co...

Saxelby Cheesemongers

Cheese Alert! There's a new cheese depot downtown, called Saxelby Cheesemongers (great name!). It operates out of a little stall in the Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side. Anne Saxelby, w...

September Wines

Here's your chance to try something really new. September Wines & Spirits, a new wine shop on the Lower East Side that specializes in wine from unusual places like Slovenia, Mexico and Lebanon, is of...

Store Review: Lehman's Non-Electric Catalog

Lehman's Non-Electric Catalog just arrived. With over two-hundred new products "for simple self-sufficient living," and temptingly low prices, it can be a little overwhelming. After all, the point i...