Whether you're cooking seven fishes or just one, Food Curated has the 411 on why you should source your swimmers locally. They get on an effing boat (!) to film this mini doc with PE & DD Seafood in Riverhead, Long Island, which is one of the local fisheries that sells to NYC greenmarkets. Find out where your fin fish, lobster, shellfish, and conch come from and you'll really be feasting on brain food.

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​Cox's Orange Pippin is one of the new apples being vended in the greenmarkets around the city.

Last year, we conducted our first annual Big Apple Apple Census, in which we discovered and cataloged 30 varieties of apples in area greenmarkets, and provided a handy alphabetized list that included tasting notes. Well, it's that time of the year and we're at it again, and following are the four new varieties to add to the list, making a total of 34 apples commonly available locally. Take a big crisp bite!

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Fruits and vegetables from far-flung locations appear and disappear at Chinatown fruit stands as seasonally as produces comes and goes at the Greenmarket, though more mysteriously.

If you happen to wander down Canal Street right now, you'll spot sugar apples, the heavy green fruits that look a little like artichokes, for about $6 a pound.

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PE & DD Seafood sells the fish it catches off the coast of Long Island every Monday at the Union Square Greenmarket. They usually carry hard-shell clams of the small, sweet littleneck variety, which are perfect for a late summer grill-up, along with corn and sliced tomatoes.

Salty clams are a natural partner for smoky seasonings. All you need is a handful of wood chips, a disposable aluminum tray, and a patch of sidewalk, park, or roof big enough for a habachi.

In the recipe that follows, the clams get three degrees of smokiness: wood smoke, smoked paprika, and bacon.

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​It feels like fall out there today, and Eve's Cidery is the ideal beverage to bridge summer and autumn.

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​Hot Bread Kitchen, the multicultural bakery and nonprofit that employs lower-income female immigrants, is offering Moroccan m'smen bread at several greenmarkets this month in celebration of Ramadan.

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​A stroll through the Union Square farmers' market about half an hour ago turned up a bounty of wee tomatoes. While the regular-sized fruits have been at the market for a few weeks now, the cherry variety, which includes the orange-hued Sun Golds, seen above, has been a rarer sight. But now it's arrived with a vengeance, just in time to provide excellent late-summer snacking. The tomatoes pictured here are from Maxwell Farm near Changewater, New Jersey, and sell for $3.50 a pint.

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Tiny, sweet sugar plums from Tree-Licious Orchard out of Port Murray, New Jersey.

​Because of our unusually hot spring, most produce is arriving early this summer. That means that the last of the cherries is now overlapping with the very first tomatoes and corn -- and it means that today is a very good day to get thee to the Union Square Greenmarket, where stone fruit, berries, eggplant, squash, corn, greens, and even South Jersey tomatoes are just waiting to be grabbed up.

Right this way for a virtual tour.

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​That record-breaking hot spell in April is yielding juicy dividends. This weekend, yellow peaches showed their fuzzy faces for the first time, arriving a good week or two earlier than usual.

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​Red and white currants are only in season for a short time, and right now you can find the berries at Locust Grove Farm's Greenmarket stand.

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