Yesterday, after dreams of bacon from Winnie’s BLT party, I followed the sounds of excited voices to the opening day of the New Amsterdam Market to see local producers and purveyors (and ran into Winnie and Matt, who introduced me to Erika Lesser, the Executive Director of Slow Food USA).

Sad to miss the pork at Porchetta because these look like serious pork people (but having already filled my quota of pork products for the weekend),

I did discover “Hot Pirate Spread,”

and rounded out the weekend’s vegetable needs,

considered dried flowers,

and went for Bent Spoon’s satisfying nectarine sorbet and ricotta ice cream (they also pressed tastings of their secret new flavor, concord grape sorbet, on everyone and were my favorite vendors by far). I think Bent Spoon’s ricotta ice cream rivals Jeni’s goat cheese ice cream with roasted cherries (carried at Foragers Market); it takes cheek to incorporate cheese in a cream, and both Bent Spoon and Jeni’s excel at it.

The most beautiful things at the market were sweet beet chips from Katchkie Farm (@KatchkieFarm), very thin, crisp slices of garnet and gold rings,

and oysters, of course, go with everything (these are from Stella).

It’s always a celebration of something (how I love New York), so the water taxis were complimentary for Harbor Day from Pier 17 over to DUMBO,

where the location of the Brooklyn Flea changed to under the Manhattan Bridge for their record and vintage clothing extravaganza,

with everyone trying on something,

and there were racks of the shimmery,

spinning of the synth-y,

and a rack of vintage leather jackets in case anyone decided to be as rock & roll as the records they were sorting through like extras a bonus scene of “High Fidelity.”

People perused slowly, as if in slow motion on an extra day of summer and a lazy Sunday afternoon…

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1. Mica:
   September 14th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

   How was the hot pirate spread?

   Lazy Sunday perusing the best, especially when intriguing and delicious food is involved.

2. Kristen:
   September 14th, 2009 at 8:14 pm

   Mica, I’m planning on sampling the hot pirate spread next time. I am gearing up for Talk Like a Pirate Day on Saturday, so reserving pirate energy for that.

   Agree on exactly that for Sundays—

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