Here Is One Market Surving The Economy
This month in particular, New Yorkers seem eager to stock up on outdoor market fresh food for more of a communal and hands on eating environment – think massive hunks of Cornish bleu cheese with crisp slices of heirloom apples and figs in a tumbling heap across the table. I’m guessing Whole Foods is doing a rain dance hoping for bad weather to inspire more indoor commercial shopping.
My recent favorite hunting ground for a more interactive experience is the New Amsterdam Market at the South Street Seaport, inspired by Paris’ famed Les Halles. Only open every few Sundays, I went yesterday to load up on nutritious and hearty staples…i.e. chat up the vendors for amazing free samples. Although the whole ‘locavore’ trend is great for the environment/farmers etc. (read as blah blah blah), to me…buying regionally fresh food simply means a better taste and richer flavor plus you can find a wider variety of wholesome and natural items. New Amsterdam differs from the Greenmarkets by not requiring vendors to be the sole growers of their food – this attracts a wide range of family purveyors who source their stock directly from farmers and producers (think the circle of life for locavore maniacs).
The next and final appearance of the New Amsterdam Market for the year will be December 20 form 11am – 4pm. Go early with an empty stomach to sample your way through my favorite food stalls:
- Breezy Hill Orchard – hot fresh pressed cider
- Fleisher’s Grassfed & Organic Meats – 100% grass-fed beef nitrate/nitrate free hot dogs
- Sugar Maple Farms – rich maple syrup
- The Cellars at Jasper Hill – cheese to melt in your mouth
- Hudson Valley Farm – fresh chocolate milk that honestly made me want to hug a cow
- Eli’s Bread – loaves of hearty multi-grain
- Provisions Shop – lavender soap and Stonehouse olive oil (smelled SO good)
- Mama O’s Kimchee – spicy cabbage that will make your mama cry
- Port Clyde Fresh Catch – co-op lobsters, crabs and fish
I found a web site is China that sells those fish oil pills that take care of the fatty acids. I am not sure that they are healthy to eat but I am tempted by the price. Any suggestion how to have better control over the food safety of my diet supplements?
fish oil said this on January 16, 2010 at 2:03 PM |
Be careful of anything that “claims” that it does something else…I try to eat a well rounded/balanced meal full of veggies/fruits/protein and limit myself to the rest (sugar/refined carbs/bleached flour etc). As for vitamins and supplements, I do have a few that are geared towards women/athletes but I try not to over do it because sometimes you can overload your system. Your body is incredibly smart and will know what to do with the excess…pee it out (i.e. when you have too much Vitamin C and your urine is a highlighter yellow color) but why waste its time and resources in having to process all of that stuff…plus we don’t even know what kind of toll it’s taking on our body and how we’ll react in 30 years etc. I would suggest eating things that have Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids like salmon or chia to get your fill and if you still feel like that’s insufficient, then re-visit the fish oil
The Fit Post said this on January 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM |