West Side Watch
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West Side Watch: Arugula
Although arugula wouldn’t be considered an abnormal or rare ingredient in our current culinary scene, I decided to do a feature on it for this simple reason–I love arugula! In fact, someone on Bwog caught me for my excessive use of arugula this last week asking, “Does Matt Powell throw arugula at everything?” Well, the [...]
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West Side Watch: Waaay better than Yoplait
A mysterious little fruit has made an appearance at our market, and it won’t be around for long… I know that it was only a couple weeks ago that I did a post on tropical fruit, but this week, there is a special fruit that has returned to our West Side shelves: the guava. Now, [...]
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West Side Watch: Tropical Fruits!
Every Sunday, before going for your week’s grocery shopping, tune in for West Side Watch–your guide to the local market. This week, I spied some produce that may just brighten up your winter. While it may be cold and dreary outside, inside West Side Market, there are beautiful tropical fruits calling to you. You know that area [...]
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West Side Watch: The Meat Aisle
West Side Watch is our weekly feature on the goings-on at the local market. Posting the latest news and products that are carried, we will keep you updated on all of your grocery needs. This week, learn how to understand the complexities of the West Side meat aisle–it’s not as tough as it looks. Although [...]
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West Side Watch
While egg nog may be gone until November, we can cheer for one small victory: the addition of candy canes to the West Side shelves! The holiday-themed candies are still available near the check-out of the very first cash register. West Side Market does in fact listen to customer requests! In other market-related news, [...]
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West Side Watch: A Shortage of Holiday Cheer
I’ve been here in New York for three years, and every year it’s the same. West Side fails to recognize my request for candy canes. West Side Market typically does a great job in listening to the needs of the customer, ordering that exotic ingredient even if only one person needs it. Every December, my [...]
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West Side Watch: Code Red (and Green)!
As of Monday, West Side Market started carrying Egg Nog for the holiday season! In need of dessert, Claire and I went to West Side after the olive oil and vinegar tasting. Browsing through the aisles, we began to meander through the dairy section. Suddenly, Claire pointed to a little red and green quart-sized carton. I [...]
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West Side Watch: Fresh Ginger Ale
Whenever I thought of ginger ale, I thought of Canada Dry or Schweppes. Well, not anymore! I found this ginger ale with the sodas in West Side. It is produced by Bruce Cost, the guy “who wrote the book on ginger… literally.” The rustic bottle sat amongst the other natural sodas, and quite frankly, it [...]
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West Side Watch: Goat’s Milk
Maybe I’ve been missing this, but I just spied goat’s milk in the dairy section of West Side Market yesterday. Apparently goat’s milk has a bit more fat than cow’s milk (about 2% more fat if you compare whole milks), but it’s easier to digest. And believe it or not, goat’s milk is the prefered [...]
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West Side Watch: Talenti Gelato
Welcome to West Side Watch, a new feature in the Culinary Society blog. This feature is designed to showcase new products that are offered at West Side Market. For the first feature, I would like to direct your attention to Talenti Gelato. Talenti claims to trace its history back to the 1500′s when Bernardo Buontalenti first unveiled [...]
