Food and Things

For me, summer is all about fruit pies, crisps, cobblers and the like. Stop by the Greenmarket and pick up some fresh blueberries, blackberries or other seasonal fruit. Then, scurry on down to the Astor Center for this hands-on lesson in creating some good eatin’ pies and tarts.

Hands-On Summer Fruit Pastries: Tarts, [...]

This is our last weekend on the North Fork. Am I sad? Devastated would be a better word for it. Yesterday, I made my usual farmstand rounds: Wickham’s for the season’s last peaches, Sang Lee for the largest and freshest varieties of heirloom tomatoes.
Then I remembered an impossibly fresh honeydew melon I had devoured a [...]