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In 1656, Peter Stuyvesant proposed the creation of a public market for the city. As New York has changed, several marketplaces have existed, each creating a community hub as well as access to fresh food. Establishing a permanent home for a new market with breads, handmade cheeses, locally grown produce, fish, and meat is the goal of Robert LaValva and Jill Slater, the founders of New Amsterdam Public. LaValva and Slater seek to revitalize a...

At the Ethnic Market highlights international specialty foods and ingredients that you're very unlikely to find at your local Gristedes. Euro Shop, a small store whose window is decorated with the flag of the European Union has always intrigued us. Among other things it offers a half dozen types of paprika paste; a meat counter filled with bacon, sausages and pork crackling; and a plethora of Hungarian junk food. Now that we’ve had their homemade...

At the Ethnic Market highlights international specialty foods and ingredients that you're very unlikely to find at your local Gristedes.

With the notable exception of Brooklyn, the Outer Boroughs are a veritable wasteland when it comes, to bánh mí, or Vietnamese sandwiches. Despite repeated forays, we've yet to find any decent versions in Queens. Those that do exist are served in restaurants, and every bánh mí fiend worth his Sriracha knows that restaurants never serve a good Vietnamese sandwich; it's simply not in their best interests to sell $3.00 entrees. As with many sandwiches, the best bánh mí are found in mom and pop delis. We like to think that these refreshing sandwiches are at their best at delis because those joints specialize in bánh mí and little else.

Recently, we learned that the Oaxacan delicacy of chapulines, or dried grasshoppers, hits the shelves in NYC at the end of this month. This news came to us from a diminutive friend who's been bestowed the nickname Chapuline by his fellow line cooks at a Chelsea restaurant. Ever optimistic in our quest for weird foods we hit Mexican groceries in both the Bronx and Queens armed with the question, "Se vende chapulines," only to come up empty-handed.

It would seem to be nothing less than dereliction of duty for an Italian-American food writer to have never been to the Italian food mecca that is Arthur Avenue, but it does on occasion happen. This oversight is even more glaring given that said food writer is half Calabrese and had never set foot in the Calabria Pork Store.

Yesterday we mentioned London designer Anya Hindmarch's I'm Not A Plastic Bag was finally arriving at Whole Foods today. The canvas tote was made popular by a combination of things including celebrity and unavailability. Hindmarch told the NY Times “To create awareness you have to create scarcity by producing a limited edition. I hate the idea of making the environment trendy, but you need to make it cool and then it becomes a habit.”

After many false starts, Trader Joe's announced this week that the grocery store chain would be finally arriving in Brooklyn. The news was heralded by Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz, who was decked out in one of the store's highly visible Hawaiian print shirts and leading a steel drum band at Court St. and Atlantic Ave. The Brooklyn Paper reports that while the grocer will soon move into the landmark Independence Savings Bank building at Court and Atlantic, Brooklynites will be required to trek to Manhattan if they want their "Two-Buck Chuck" wine.

At the Ethnic Market highlights international specialty foods and ingredients that you're very unlikely to find at your local Gristedes

Burdock root, also known as gobo, tastes something like a nutty artichoke potato. The long, slender, flexible roots don't look like much, but they have a lot of flavor if you slice them thin and braise them to bring it out. Don't bother peeling off their thin skin, which is both tasty and good for you.

After a lot of speculation that the Brooklyn Trader Joe's may never happen, Racked reports that it...IS! The good news (for Brooklynites) was posted just moments ago:

Last week everyone nerded out by creating their Simpsons characters. This week have some Springfield-style 3-dimensional fun by visiting the Kwik-E-Mart!

Earlier this year, The Sun reported that AvalonBay Communities would "begin construction this summer on a 42-story, residential market-rate tower with approximately 600 units. The property will have ground floor retail, which could house the borough's first Trader Joe's market." And even earlier this year it was suspected that TJ's would move into One Brooklyn Bridge Park.

At the Ethnic Market highlights international specialty foods and ingredients that you're very unlikely to find at your local Gristedes

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores.

At the Ethnic Market highlights international specialty foods and ingredients that you're very unlikely to find at your local Gristedes

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores.

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores.

We get our baking equipment at a number of places in town: Williams-Sonoma, Broadway Panhandler, Bridge Kitchenware, and they've each got a decent selection of baking sheets and silpat and tart molds.

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores.

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores.

We're not sure when this started, but somewhere along the line it became common for reporters to quiz Presidential candidates on the campaign trail about the price of grocery staples, like a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk. It's supposed to be some indication of how in-touch a candidate is with the common American voter, but it's also a form of "gotcha!" question, especially when asked at a $1,000-a-person fund-raiser.

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores.

We've already told you where to find your gefilte fish, so let's talk about some of the other Seder staples:

We've all heard the old adage that there's nothing more dangerous in the kitchen than a dull knife. A sharp knife cuts cleanly through things. A dull knife forces you to use more pressure, then may bounce off the surface of the onion you're trying to slice and onto another surface, such as--for instance--your hand. Ouch!

Tribesmen and women city-wide are frantically polishing off the last crumbs of their chametz and stockpiling matzo in preparation for Passover. April 2-10 is a torturous time for many and, though crispy potato kugels and nutty bowlfuls of charoset may soften the blow, there’s still a grim specter that hovers over Gothamist’s Passover table.

With this weekend's spring forward, we can begin to look towards Spring and all that it will do for the selection of products at the Greenmarket. Dreaming of shoots and early tender leaves does feel a little off, especially since the spring forward is three weeks early this year. One of our farmer pals, clearly feeling conspiratorial, even made the suggestion that our feeling off about this early time jump-up is only temporary. His "theory" is that as global warming accelerates, this shift will fit better with weather patterns and that the government will have pulled a fast on us by realigning our expectations of normal seasonality.

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores.

Though you may only be able to dream of ordering that whole lobster this Valentine’s Day, Fairway is making a home cooked one a little more plausible. Though not exactly a steal, lobsters are available at a reasonable markdown that will bring one of the most expensive items of that romantic meal a little closer to affordability. At $8.99 a pound, a regular small sized lobster (1.5 pounds) will run around $13.50 - not exactly a bargain. But if there were any season to spend a wee bit more, it’s now.

With all the Super Bowl savings going around on huge slabs of meat, tortilla chips and beer, it was easy to look past some of the lighter fare offered on sale this week. It was especially hard at Pathmark where shell steaks were going for an incredible $4.99 a pound (which beats Fairway's price!) and the spare ribs were $1.99 a pound (which we pigged out on during the big game). But if your mind was full meat, then you’d miss the sale of the week, which was not so hidden on page one: Grapes for $.99 a pound. We were immediately suspicious when we encountered the price, expecting mushy grapes instead of nice crisp ones. But upon squeezing, we knew these were legitimate specimens.