- July 18, 2005
- Breakfast Radishes
For anyone who thinks radishes only come red and round, a trip to a farmer’s market is a root-vegetable revelation.
- June 20, 2005
- Spinach
When it comes to leafy greens, spinach has always lacked broccoli rabe’s sex appeal.
- June 13, 2005
- Soft-Shell Crabs
Not a separate species, as some landlubbers think, soft-shell crabs, a.k.a. peelers, are blue crabs that have shed their hard shells.
- June 6, 2005
- Bluefish
If ever a so-called “animated chopping machine” needed some good PR, it would be the bluefish.
- May 23, 2005
- Rhubarb
Technically a vegetable but treated as a fruit, rhubarb is a godsend for winter-weary pastry chefs.
- May 16, 2005
- Fiddlehead Ferns
Think of fiddlehead ferns, those tightly coiled, emerald-green symbols of spring, as ferns interrupted.
- May 9, 2005
- Asparagus
Dig out those silver asparagus holders you swiped from Alain Ducasse: The dainty spears have arrived at the Greenmarket.
- May 2, 2005
- Ramps
Nothing piques the passion of the seasonally obsessed chef like ramps, whose springtime arrival at the Greenmarket is met with the kind of fervor associated with the naming of a new pope.
- April 25, 2005
- Duck Eggs
Nothing against chickens, but according to a wizened egg expert we met at the Greenmarket recently, duck eggs have a greater ratio of yolk to whites, and are therefore “eggier.”
- April 18, 2005
- Shad Roe
Just mention this bony, overgrown herring, and any shad fanatic within 100 yards will begin dancing about, warbling Cole Porter, and quoting Joseph Mitchell or John McPhee.

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