A New Below-the-Radar Event: Atlanta Underground Market
ATL Food Chatter: February 7, 2011
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Michaela Graham moved back to Atlanta from San Francisco at the beginning of January, and she wasted no time setting up an event she already missed in the Bay Area—an underground “market,” where cooks (some who work in professional kitchens, some with culinary chops who don’t) set up stands and sell small plates of their specialties for a minimum price. Her inaugural Atlanta Underground Market is set for Saturday, February 26, from 6–9 p.m. Participants sign up for an email that will reveal the location of the market the day before it happens.
Heirloom summer squash can add flair to your salad
Kaleidoscopic tomatoes pull focus when they begin appearing at farmers markets this season, but another vegetable-that’s-really-a-fruit also waits to be noticed: summer squash.
Souper Jenny ladles up love for Valentine’s Day
There’s a reason more men are loitering by the ladles this week at Souper Jenny on East Andrews Drive in Buckhead.In honor of Valentine’s Day, it’s Aphrodisiac Soup Week at the soup, salad and sandwich shop.
Local foods sold with a Southern spin
It’s practically a scientific fact: Southern foods are seasoned by the stories that gather around them.Grandma’s recipe for squash casserole doesn’t taste the same until someone recounts the time Uncle Jimmy tripped over the dog while carrying the dish to the table, spilling squash all over Grandma’s fancy woven rug, and she laid into Jimmy because everyone knew that the dining room doorway was the dog’s favorite place to nap. The Christmas cake is
Want a community garden? Start now for 2012
About this time each year, the lush variety of produce in the farmers markets does a strange thing to me: It makes me want to have even more. As much as I love the farm stands stocked with tender salad greens and crunchy carrots, peppery radishes and arugula, sweet peas and earthy beets, it never seems like quite enough to grab it by the armful. I want to pull it from the earth with my own two hands.
Richard Blais talks Fourth of July food, candle scents with CBS
Did you catch Richard Blais on CBS This Morning this weekend? He was on the morning show to pretend-eat with the hosts and suggest a spin on the typical Fourth of July meal: lamb ribs and lobster rolls with a side of "Brussels Kraut." Whilst pretend-eating, host Rebecca Jarvis reveals Blais' culinary interest in cosmetics and candle stores in the mall. "Sometimes when I think of flavor, I think, 'Wow, would that make a good candle scent?'" Blais says. Should we be looking for a line of candles to emerge from the Spence at some point? Only time will tell.
New Douglasville market causes vendor exodus
Technically speaking, Douglasville has a new farmers market. In practical terms, though, an existing market just moved a few miles down the road.The Douglasville Farmers Market launched Sept. 1 as part of the city’s Main Street program. Held downtown in O’Neal Plaza, it will run 3 to 7 p.m. every Thursday through Oct. 20.
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