in the name of food
Exploring on foot, I discovered a hideaway to eat at next time I’m around Greenpoint,
and a graffiti color scheme I admired.
In the afternoon, I hung out at NYC Resistor with Bre Pettis. Highly caffeinated from a beverage the hacker collective stocks (otherwise unavailable in the U.S.) and jazzed about the sorts of projects the group works on, I headed back to the hotel to dress for the Shorty Awards:
That night, I watched lights on bridges,
and met MC Hammer.
There are some other Shorty Awards (for Twitter users) highlights in a video I made for Knight Foundation (KF sponsored the awards):
Friday after work, I headed across the street to an outdoor concert from the Miami Downtown Development Authority and really liked the longer songs from local band Afrobeta; I stayed for part of Chana:
On Saturday morning, I found these pictures of roses from last week’s farmers’ market in Coral Gables,
And headed over to this week’s Coral Gables market with Jessica and Dianne, picking up the CSA farm box on the way.
We had just missed the cooking demostration,
but I snagged the last bunch of quirky carrots at my favorite vendor—the farmer proudly held them out as I walked toward the stand, and I embraced them, my arms full of the long green tops.
Summer crops of large onions and cherry peppers filled another stand (these peppers are fantastic marinated and then filled goat cheese),
and Jessica befriended owners of a Corgi, while the wonderful citrus grove owner filled my market bag with extra tangelos (these are like the honeybells, now out of season).
There was a tiny dancer moved by the market musicians,
near children with wonderfully oblivious focus diagramming hopscotch.
From the market, we took tree-lined roads till we stood on the street where Jess will live,
and she will see the door opening at the end of the hall,
walk toward it and the tree with purple flowers in the yard.
Part of Jess is already there, spinning castles in the air.
The tree with the face is waiting for her,
and I’ll be on the swing when I come to visit.
Later that day, we popped cava, cracked local stone crab, and melted butter with spring onions and garlic chives before dipping strawberries in chocolate cake batter (Mica, I do have a moelleux au chocolat recipe for you), toasting to local food we love and friendship to hold close.
We spent the afternoon laughing, partly at the silly romantic entanglements we have extricated ourselves from in the past year.
What I love most about the markets here in the South Florida is the mystery fruit grown by Redland Organics that appears on Sunday mornings. Gambooj reminds me of tart plums.
My sister Kassandra, in town for a few days, joined me at the market with her friend Caitlin and my friend Susan,
and we drove all the way to North Miami for great Cuban food at Little Havana restaurant (great tres leches cake and cheese flan are immediately endearing),
before mojitos in Coral Gables. How nice it is to be surrounded by fascinating, adventurous women visiting Miami—two of whom are, at this moment, sleeping soundly at the Magic Cottage…
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Posted by Kristen Taylor on Monday, February 16th, 2009, 8:09 am * Filed in Food, Market, Music, restaurant, Video. * Tags: awards, dda, Food, kristen, kthread, local, Market, miami, Music, nyc, shorty, taylor. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Ooh, those carrots make me smile! They are endearingly crooked and streaked.
Your photography of Miami and its food is like a window into happy, warmer weather. Now, I’m going to stare out the window at the desolate, salt-streaked Midwest.
I’m very excited about the moelleux recipe, as you are certainly my favorite food blogger (and so much more!) and I know it will be fantastic. I can only hope that I am worthy/capable of the recipe.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Mica, the recipe is on its way to you right now, and we’ll check your blog to see the chocolate goodness :)
Miami does bring the sun on a regular basis, though Chicago is practically perfect in the summer months (soon, soon)—
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:42 am
I take a week off from Kthread and I miss a pic of you and MC Hammer. Well, I’ve learned my lesson. Speaking of mulberries, the local PBS has brought back my favorite British comedy of the same name–a truly queer show.
February 24th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Ben, glad you’re back! I’ve never seen that show, but hope you’ll introduce me next weekend—