a rooftop farm, a market under a bridge, skating between
to a farm on a roof in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
The 6,000 feet of garden still held the remaining chard, glowing in the morning sun,
and baby purple lettuces I bent to inspect—and later, I left with a bag full of tiny, soft leaves.
The radishes and beets, equally small, might make an appearance in a salad on Thursday; the volunteers selling Rooftop Farms’ produce were smiling at the fresh vegetables that shared the table with pickled peppers and herb bundles too.
Then, over the bridge, I walked past P.S. 2 and her murals,
watched skaters glide,
and looked up at the bridges,
and out at the water as I walked to a packed New Amsterdam Market, between Beekman and Peck Slip.
Mine was the penultimate Porchetta sandwich with garlic pesto (and oh, was I envied that sandwich by those behind me),
and I wandered, impressed, with Sweet Deliverance‘s goat cheese tart with roasted pears and fried sage leaves;
finally, I stopped for the “Thanksgiving Triumvirate” from Saxelby Cheesemongers, which will be a nice finish for the meal that I have tried to source locally.
From that market (where I also found a dessert wine I’m saving to surprise my guests), I journeyed back across the water to the Brooklyn Flea, with its giant and yet appropriate apple,
and wonderful vintage glasses with 14k gold paint (apparently, it was more plentiful middle of the twentieth century) for that final beverage—only the first of many holiday toasts, I hope, this season in Brooklyn. And now, to polish my grandmother’s silver…
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- sweet beets and food of record
- sunday supper at salt water farm
- milkweed, cider, and dancing at the Camden Farmers’ Market
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November 25th, 2009 at 8:38 am
delicious! thank you for sharing your wanderings with us, kristen.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Keryn, I hope your Thanksgiving is magical :) We’ll have to walk Brooklyn together sometime (it was so nice to be at the Camden market with you last month)—
November 28th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Beautiful wanderings! What is Porchetta? (I learn so much from your blog.)
I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving!
December 7th, 2009 at 2:02 am
wow.. I didn’t know porchetta was available in NY. For Mica, porchetta is roasted pork as is done in central Italy (and especially Rome.) The pork is slowly roasted whole (skin included) filled with lots of fresh herbs, especially fennel seed and rosemary. It’s just delicious. Now Kristen I envy you we don’t have porchetta in L.A…. :-)
December 7th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Thanks, Anna Maria. I feel especially lucky to live in NY in regards to porchetta, though I may try making my own at some point—