Category Archives: At the Market

The Art of Chocolate – Francisco Migoya’s Hudson Chocolates

Posted on May 16, 2013 by docsconz in At the Market, Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Culinary Shopping, Food and Drink, Pastry, Slow Food, Top Tastes, Upstate NY

If there is someone making chocolate confections more creative, beautiful and delicious than Francisco Migoya is doing at his new Hudson Chocolates in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. I am unaware of it. I recently stopped there on my way down to NYC [...]

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Sunday Photo – “Viagra” For Breakfast at Santiago’s Mercado Central

Posted on April 28, 2013 by docsconz in At the Market, Chile, Culinary Personalities, Culinary Shopping, Food and Drink, Photo Posts, Slow Food, Top Tastes, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

No, not the pharmaceutical product. At Marisqueria Bahamondez in the Mercado Central in Santiago, their version of “Viagra” is a collection of the juices of the various shellfish that they cook at their small stall in the back recesses of [...]

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Sunday Photo – Big Fish Little Fish

Posted on April 21, 2013 by docsconz in At the Market, Food and Drink, Photo Posts, Slow Food, Upstate NY

I bought a couple of whole red snappers for the grill yesterday and received a surprise when I was cleaning one of them out. Nestled between the big fish’s mouth and stomach was a whole, partially digested little fish. It [...]

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Healthy Living – Just a Name or The Real Thing?

Posted on March 28, 2013 by docsconz in At the Market, Cheese, Culinary Personalities, Culinary Shopping, Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Musings, New England, Slow Food, Upstate NY

It won’t replace the local Farmers Markets. It isn’t designed to do that, but the new Healthy Living Market and Cafe at the Wilton Mall (yes, it is in a mall) just outside of Saratoga Springs, New York should make [...]

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Culinary Pilgrimages: Part 7 – Lovely Lyon

Posted on March 14, 2013 by docsconz in At the Market, Bocuse D'Or, Cooking, Culinary Personalities, Culinary Shopping, Family, Food and Drink, France, Hotels, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Travel

Our timing for the drive to the train station was good. With a 12 noon train, we missed the rush hour traffic and made it to Brussels with plenty of time to find the Car Rental return and get our [...]

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Sunday Photo – Sopresatta

Posted on January 20, 2013 by docsconz in Art, At the Market, Culinary Shopping, Food and Drink, New York City, Photo Posts, Slow Food, Top Tastes, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

This is world class dried sausage. I grew up eating these sopresatte made by the Esposito’s on Court Street in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn and they remain as delicious as ever, wonderful for special occasions or a simple [...]

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Sunday Photo – Chinatown (NY) Fish Market

Posted on October 7, 2012 by docsconz in At the Market, Culinary Shopping, New York City, Photo Posts, Slow Food, Travel

Before I had traveled anywhere outside of the United States, I became fascinated by food markets just walking along Canal Street and side streets like Mulberry, Mott and others in New York City’s Chinatown. They had then and still have [...]

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Mexico City’s Mercado San Juan With Chef Christopher Kostow – A Slide Show

Posted on September 4, 2012 by docsconz in At the Market, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Mesamerica, Mexico, Photo Posts, Slow Food, Travel

One highlight amongst many from my recent trip to Mexico was touring the Mercado San Juan with Chef Christopher Kostow of the Michelin three star Restaurant at Meadowood in the Napa Valley, Lucky Peach’s Managing Editor Rachel Khong, Adriana Gomez [...]

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The Markets of Mexico – Puebla’s El Mercado de la Acocota

Posted on August 24, 2012 by docsconz in At the Market, Food and Drink, Mesamerica, Mexico, Photo Posts, Slow Food, Travel

El Mercado de la Acocota is situated in an old working class neighborhood just off the center of old colonial Puebla. I was taken there by Rebecca Smith Hurd as part of her walking tour of Poblano street food to [...]

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A Taste of Puebla – A Walking Tour of Poblano Street Food

Posted on August 22, 2012 by docsconz in At the Market, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Mesamerica, Mexico, Pastry, Photo Posts, Slow Food, Top Tastes, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

Pelonas. Molotes. Cemitas. Tacos Arabes. Tacos al Pastor, Chalupas (no, no those taco Bell abominations). Camotes. Conchas. Most of these items are probably meaningless to most of the rest of the world, but in Puebla, they each have tremendous meaning. [...]

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