Pick-Your-Own Apple Schedule

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Pick-your-own apple picking starts September 21, with the most popular varieties ripe and available on the peak weekend ofOctober 8 through 10, the weekend of Columbus Day.  We will continue to offer pick-your-own apples after that for as long as there are apples left to pick.  Please note we are …

Fish and Asparagus

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Galatoire’s does fish very well.  Rather than look at the menu, ask your waiter for a recommendation as to which fish to order on the particular day you are there.  Other great dishes at this grand Creole dining institution:  Shrimp Remoulade, Crabmeat Yvonne. [/xf_textblock]

Vieux Carre

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Speaking of the French Quarter of New Orleans, when you go there, Wickham’s Fruit Farm recommends Galatoire’s Restaurant, located on Bourbon Street. Visit their Facebook page here. [/xf_textblock]

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 …