Results tagged “produce”

Fresh garbanzo beans are cheaper than fava beans, and they demonstrate in a nutshell (pod?) the “better vegetables through outer boroughs” principle of produce. It may hardly be news, but more than a pound of still-in-shell chickpeas was found yesterday for $1.99 at Brooklyn’s Three Guys, a 24/7 discount greens place on the corner of 65th and Fort Hamilton Parkway. Shopping-wise, you may get pushed out of the way by a cart wielding nonna gunning for the greengage plums, or distracted by a cross-dressing man calmly sorting through the melons.

Enjoy it folks -- blueberries are in peak season. Although technically they are in season from May to October, they've exploded recently. They're showing up in farmers' markets (here's a map of map of NYC Greenmarkets), CSA shares, and even the New York Times magazine's sunday recipes.

For decades, residents of low-income neighborhoods under-served by supermarket chains have been getting their hands on produce the old fashioned way: By growing it in their own gardens. In recent years, outer-borough farmers have taken urban agriculture a step further by selling their mostly organic haul at well-organized community markets.

Photo: Food of the Future