Local Food: The Best of What's Around

• By Vanessa Grigoriadis
• Published Winter 2006

There is certainly no shortage of Hamptons purveyors to facilitate a self-catered beach wedding. The best naturally grown produce-from plump red tomatoes to sweet corn-comes from East Hampton's East End Community Organic Farm (631-324-5523). Loaves and Fishes (631-537-0555) has quality pâté, appetizers, and prepared entrées like poached salmon-upscale fixings for an at-home rehearsal dinner. Breadzilla (631-537-0955), in Wainscott, has homemade bread, as well as wedding cakes. Raw, unfiltered honey is available at the Hamptons Honey Company (631-537-9495) and makes for a unique reception favor. Amagansett Farmers Market (631-267-3894) offers one-stop shopping for the morning-after brunch: they have delicious pies and bagels. Mecox Bay Dairy (631-537-0335), in Bridgehampton, sells local cheese, like the Camembert-style Atlantic Mist from Jersey cows who graze near Mecox Bay. And, for a variety of fish, bring a cooler to the Seafood Shop (631-537-0633), in Wainscott.