The Changing of the Seasons seen through the eyes of the Greenmarket's Produce - January

Welcome to January folks, I'm sure we are all starving for some green grass and leaves on the trees, instead we'll have to settle for green trucks and small potted plants..


A selection of some of winter's best known root vegetables.

Celeriac

Baby Savoy Cabbage


Apples and Pears

Rutabegas


Jerusalem Artichokes



Parsnips



Blue Hubbard Squash



Purple Top Turnips


Potatoes and more potatoes...


Black Radishes



Carrots and Onions



Red and Green tomatoes, hope for summer to come!


Couldn't help but include this image of the carrot peeling man at the Union Square Greenmarket. It seems that a little over a week after this image was taken, Joe Ades, the man pictured, past away, at the age of 75. May he rest in peace.

** Just as a note, I am very aware that the images in this series look like BOOORING photographs of root vegetables, but it is the beginning of a bigger series, documenting the monthly produce at the Greenmarket, check back as the year goes on to see how it has changed!

Thanksgiving 2008

Pecan Sandies and cheese.....
Quail Eggs getting prepped..
Dishes waiting for their acoutrements.
Homemade confitures to pair with cheeses

And now onto the meal :

The first course, quail's egg with a beautiful fall melange of veggies underneath topped with a Duxelle madeira salsa-y garnish

The biscuits, yum yum!!


Creamy Ricotta/mascarpone polenta with chesnut topping followed by one single scallop. Around the dish, a smattering of greens, avocado, and homemade cranberry.

Food Display

The spice display at Essex Street Market, certainly makes me want to buy some..


Fish in a styrofoam ice box covered with plastic


Crabs in a wooden basket with a black trash bag, not the cleanest way to store them..gets you thinking about where your fish has been before you eat it.


Poor turtles, here's one trying to escape the confinement of his plastic crate.


Dried Mushrooms, I never thought the dried variety tasted nearly as good as the fresh...but they obviously keep much longer...


To be honest, I'm not even sure what these are, but they certainly look very much like the fossils you studied in middle school.


Assorted dried fish in Chinatown, yuck!

Papabubble - homemade Barcelona based treats


This is a different sort of display -- it sure is food display, just in the process of being cooked. In case you can't figure out what that is, it is funnel cake!


Yummy cheese display on the Ile St. Louis in Paris -- placing this cheese display in the store's window, obviously lures consumers inside the shop for a delectable morsel.



These photographs are meant to examine the manner in which display figures into a consumer's relationship with food and what exactly the meaning of display does to the food products themselves. A wide range of foods and displays figure in to this idea.

Patterns, Colors, Shapes, and Abstractions with food

These photos are supposed to be examinations of fruit and vegetables as abstractions of their "known" beings -- they are asking the viewer to suspend the belief in them as what society knows them as, therefore allowing them to take on abstractions of their original forms. However, on such a small scale and in this format, they loose their goal.
This is just the beginning of a larger series.