Interior of Barney Greengrass

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] In addition to stocking a variety of rare fish eggs, bottled goods, and other seafood to be bought over the counter, Barney Greengrass has a seating area where one can dine in.  In a side dining room, the wall covering features an extended panoramic depiction of the French Quarter …

Slicing Fish

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] I went inside Barney Greengrass to take a look around.  The habitues of the place, like inductees into some obscure private brotherhood, put down their coffee and morning papers and shot me a conspiratorial look as if to say, “Don’t tell too many people about this place and spoil …

Barney Greengrass

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] While walking around the Upper West Side of Manhattan, came upon this place called Barney Greengrass, “The Sturgeon King.”  The place is appealingly retro, as if out of the pre-World War II era, with stainless fixtures, green walls, and high shelves piled up with goods. Visit their Facebook …

North Fork Chips

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Wickham’s Fruit Farm recommends North Fork Chips.  These chips have a distinctive taste that is different from the taste of other premium, kettle-cooked, small-batch potato chips.  The taste is familiar to longtime eaters of the North Fork’s potatoes, where the climate and the potato varieties have traditionally produced …

Your One-stop Apple Headquarters

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Wickham’s Fruit Farm is your one-stop apple headquarters. We’ve got eating apples, baking apples, apples to be made into candy apples, green apples, golden apples, yellow apples, red apples, traditional apple varieties, and new, exclusive proprietary apple varieties that are hard to find elsewhere. We’ve also got cold press …

Setting Up Our Exhibit

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Setting up at the Long Island Fair.  This fair has the old-fashioned charm of a Tasha Tudor illustration, but with somewhat fewer Corgis. [/xf_textblock]

Cold Press Apple Cider

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Juicing?  Try Wickham’s Fruit Farm’s cold press apple cider.  We press our apple cider here on the premises with the same old-fashioned rack-and-cloth press we have been using for decades.  The cider press was built in 1904. We press our cider cold, in small batches.  We do not heat …