This morning, the Mushroom Man at Union Square Greenmarket explained the basket next to the Chicken of the Woods mushrooms (below—I like my mushrooms to taste like mushrooms),

and the mystery mushrooms looked potent and ancient.

Buying elderberries from him (what should I make? a sauce for game or an infusion for cocktails?), I stopped for tiny wild blueberries at Berried Treasures,

wispy bouquets,

husk cherries (sometimes called ground cherries) that I’ve brought into the office, with a papery husk you peel back to reveal what looks to be a cherry tomato with seeds like a tomatillo and a taste like pineapple,

and celosia that reminded me that soon we will shift away from tomatoes and fairy tale eggplant to hard squash and apples…

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1. concord grapes, calla lilies, and porcini season
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3. sparkly morning at the greenmarket

1. Laura:
   August 26th, 2009 at 11:30 am

   when you are here, we are having the “hen of the woods” pizza at gjelina. that is all. xoxo.

2. Kristen:
   August 26th, 2009 at 11:58 am

   I am going to need to stay at least a week for all the food adventures we need to have (plus the midnight baking, as per usual) :) xoxo–

3. Kat:
   August 26th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

   gorgeous pictures, and i can say chicken of the woods are the best veggie treat!

4. Kristen:
   August 26th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

   thanks, Kat. Let’s visit the market together when you and R are here for some CotW deliciousness—

5. Mica:
   August 27th, 2009 at 5:50 am

   I just saw celosia for the first time at the local farmer’s market. Harrison’s reaction? “Ew, I don’t like that. It looks like a rug!”

6. Kristen:
   August 28th, 2009 at 7:28 am

   Mica, celosia does sort of look like a rug. Or a furry magic carpet. Glad you visited the farmers’ market–even though the salsa was weak—

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