by Elizabeth
on May 17, 2012
Chelsea Market Baskets is a proud partner in tonight’s A Taste of HOPE, a benefit tasting for the The HOPE Program, celebrating nearly 30 years of getting men and women back to work.
Our partnership includes having a tasting station at the event, and we are sharing our pressed cheese sandwiches with this culinary crowd of tastemakers! In honor of the special evening, CMB created a unique HOPE sandwich made with Barber’s Cheesemakers’ 1833 Farmhouse Cheddar and Kitchen Garden’s Old Spot Real Ale Chutney.
The very traditional British flavor of this pressed cheese showcases the imports that CMB is known for and celebrates the smaller, artisanal producers that we enjoy supporting.
A quick aside about Barber’s 1833 Cheddar: this cheese has a legacy as the longest operating cheddar producer in the world. As the name suggests, the Barber family (for six generations!) has been pasturing cows and making cheese since 1833 at Maryland Farm in Ditcheat, Somerset (just outside the village of Cheddar, England).
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Chelsea Market Baskets owner, David Porat, has a regular monthly column in the WestView News, a paper that serves as “the voice of the West Village.” Usually written about restaurants in the West Village, but this month, documents travel in Hong Kong and China for two of the largest gift and basket trade shows in the world, where dining out was a little different, but, as always, very entertaining and very tasty.
Sitting here, in a modern hotel on the other side of the world, twelve hours time difference, day is night and night day – yet the world is growing smaller and maybe better? I have just finished six days in Hong Kong and Guangzhou; I have been here many times before and dinners are some of the more exciting things that I do while I am here. The business of developing products and reviewing with vendors is also fun and challenging, with a bit of never knowing what you will find and how things will end up, but that is for another story and time. The food finds are immediate and most exciting in the present. Having friends who do similar things, both for business and pleasure, I relied on my London friend Paul to advise me on where to go now in Hong Kong. Last night and the night before, I ate on the island side at two maybe more current places.
The first night we explored a residential area not far from Central that is now being developed with trendy food and has been written about; it is called Tai Hang. It is not unlike a part of the Village with a multitude of ethnicities represented in the establishments. It was filled with younger people; in fact I took a friend who lives in Hong Kong there and he was surprised at how all these new places sprung up. There was a good bit of French, including a restaurant with a great selection of cheeses on display, many that you could not easily find in New York. We choose a restaurant called Daruma Ramen House, a new place that takes ramen noodles to an art. The restaurant is very small and inexpensive, about $10 or 77 HK$ for a very satisfying bowl of a rich and spicy broth that includes pork, noodles, fish row, a semi hardboiled egg, and nori seaweed. The service is curt, the style is modern and this could be New York or Hong Kong. What I am reminded of here is how Ramen is happening in New York with some of the disciples of David Chang at Momofuko basically doing the same thing in New York.
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by Elizabeth
on May 5, 2012
Spring is in the air, and with it a very special occasion: Mother’s Day! We have already added special gifts to our online collection, and in the next week leading up to May 13th, we’re hosting several mom-friendly demos and events in the store. It is a little Parisian, a little sweet, and a lot of ways to say “thank you†to the special moms and women in your life!
On May 5th, CMB welcomes back Tammy Fahey and Suss Sweets caramels from New Hampshire. We’re excited to introduce a new flavor from her: Vanilla with Sea Salt. We also will be demoing Valrhona’s signature Grand Cru Guanaja 70% for the classic mom that would appreciate having the preferred chocolate of Jean-Georges Vongerichten in her pantry! And a brand new demo for CMB- we are thrilled to welcome Carolyn Hansen and Cathleen Peck, the authors of the PowerHiking guide book series that outlines great walks in metro areas, for a book signing. While the rain may keep you from doing a lot of walking today, their New York book does a great job of educating about a certain neighborhood and lays a path through the area that is easy to follow and includes lots to see and do. Moms will love this series, whether they are visiting New York or looking to explore the city they call home.
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