Meat at Your Door

Bypass the supermarket and buy it direct.

Down-Home Prosciutto

The country ham is our native prosciutto or serrano, though most Southerners wouldn’t dream of throwing an uncooked leg on a deli slicer and shaving some to go with the asparagus. Most Northerners, meanwhile, have never heard of...

The Year in Food 2008

What we ate, what the candidates ate, what the Olympians ate.

Based on the recommendations on this board, I went to the Union Square Greenmarket today (Wednesday) at around 2:30 to buy some venison from Quattro’s Farms. I was unable to locate the Quattro’s Farms stand. Is it...

Wallace Condon of Small Potatoes Farm posted a sign at today’s Ferry Plaza market announcing that he’s retiring from farming and won’t be back. Gracious as ever, he paused in the middle of a chess game with...

Besides Trader Joe’s (great prices, OK selection), Whole Foods (high prices, decent selection), and Bristol Farms (high prices, good selection), are there any places in or near the South Bay to buy great cheese?

Most goat cheese in the market is too subtle and tame for my taste. Does anybody know where in Los Angeles I can get goat cheese that really tastes like goats and farms, or like whatever the goats have been eating, etc? Basically...

DON’T FORGET CAFE AUBERGINE! 51st and Skillman. Lovely, clean, and they serve very nice coffee... very nice indeed. Irving Farm. Link: http://www.no-monkey.com

Blood Farm in Groton MA gets good reviews. There’s a butcher in Pennichuck Square—Bare Bonz. North of town in Bedford NH are Bedford Prime Meats and The Meat Shoppe. Lots of people like the place in...

Marshall’s Farm Honey Link: http://www.marshallshoney.com/

. I ended up with those cheeses, a wedge of Raclette, brie with truffles, a piece of Wendsleydale (because, like Wallace & Grommit, I would love a cheese vacation), nice salami, and the last ball of burrata. The brie was pretty...

We haven’t shopped around much, but we’ve enjoyed Wright’s Farm in Gardiner, NY. They do fry the donuts before your eyes, and when we went last year, the were delicious. Plenty of apple picking, a farmstand with...

is based in LA. Several gourmet supermarkets, such as Bristol Farms, sell it.

part of all is that while you’re eating you look out the big windows and see one of the most beautiful rivers in the South. Also nearby is Pickwick Catfish Farm, which specializes in smoked catfish. It’s wonderful, and...

In Roncoli Verdi, a dusty little farming and industrial village near Bussetto where Verdi lived, I had one of the best meals I’ve had in Emilia-Romagna about 10 years ago. I couldn’t remember the name the place which...