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The chef Julie Farias—last seen utilizing a hot plate, Swiss Army knife, and a box of clothespins in order to devise and cook some well-reviewed, three-course $25 set menus at Beer Table in Park Slope—has moved on to The General Greene. The San Antonio native also worked for Daniel Boulud and is the former chef at iCi. Farias also put together the menu at burger restaurant Stand, so here's hoping she'll be making some changes to the lackluster General Greene version. You may recall that General Greene owner Nicholas Morgenstern unveiled a custom ice cream cart a few weeks back (seen here); word is that someone apparently tried to steal the tip jar from the cart last week and was promptly arrested! Farias is said to be working on some menu tweaks, assumes kitchen duties this week, and will likely kick anyone's ass who tries something like that tip jar stunt again.

Robert LaValva, a former city planner-turned-founder of New Amsterdam Market, has been working four years to establish a food destination that will reconnect modern, regional agriculture to the civic tradition of the city’s bygone markets. One of the group’s underlying ideas is that an integrated market can be fundamentally different than a greenmarket; that is, a market fosters closer connections between farmers and bakers, or butchers and cheesemongers, for example, and drives down prices, creating a public space and a revitalized food community in the process.