A new weekend market is in the works, and this one is all about Queens. The Long Island City Flea and Food will open in mid-June and run every Saturday and Sunday out of a 24,000-square-foot lot on the corner of 5th Street and 46th Avenue -- that should be enough room to hold the 100 vendors they're planning to secure. 
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Bulbous, pink, and mottled, Dickson's baconburger
I'd popped into Chelsea Market last Saturday to score a lump of guanciale at Buon Italia, when the meat case at Dickson's Farmstand Meats caught my eye--always good to give it a look and see what sorts of products, many of them oddball, are currently being offered. There among the novel sausages, pork sirloins, bone marrows sliced two ways, delicious smoked ham, and homemade pancetta a neat array of burgers scampered forward, advertised as 80 percent beef and 20 percent bacon, for $6 each. My dinner plans were settled! They appeared to be about a half-pound each, and were mottled with what looked like pork fat. Would they be any good?
Legal (except in New Jersey schools) tranquilizers?
Peeking out from among the Malta cans and bottles of kola champagne and ginger beer in bodega refrigerator cases in neighborhoods like Flatbush, Bed-Stuy, and Clinton Hill, beverages bearing a likeness of Wailers lead singer (and prodigious pothead) Bob Marley have been appearing. (And what college student doesn't have his dreads-framed visage plastered somewhere in the dorm room?) That likeness has been pressed into service in Bob Marley-branded beverages, alliteratively called Marley's Mellow Mood. FitR picked up a couple on Church Avenue, on an evening when squad cars went screaming by, heading into East Flatbush. We certainly needed some nerve-calming.
The ornamental Eureka lemon has decidedly pink flesh, instead of lemon-yellow.
Normally, if you set out to make festive pink lemonade like Martha Stewart, you do it by adding cranberry or strawberry juice to your regular recipe. But now you can make pink lemonade without the alien juices.
Official Italian government designation: Radicchio Variegato di Castelfranco IGT. Truly sorry it looks something like a dirty, blood-flecked diaper.
If you're a seeker-out of strange and beautiful salad greens, perhaps burned out on the usual lettuces, cabbages, and kales, think about visiting Eataly in the near future. Because there you can score a head of an unusual radicchio.
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There's no doubt: New York is a buyer's market. At least where food is concerned.
Stroll through the souk-like stalls of our city's great markets as you scarf down spicy, chicken pigs-in-blankets from Brooklyn Piggies and a chaser of Grady's Cold Brew, and revel in these first breezes of fall as you chat with vendors. Is that kimchi made with local, seasonal ingredients? Why yes, yes it is! And can you try it? Of course, just ask.
For those who prefer to shop indoors, we've also included a few indoor, brick and mortar markets, full of specialty vendors. And while they might not have the cache of their outdoor counterparts, they are equally stocked with now-that-you-see-it-you-need-it goods (like those buttery but crisp rugelach from Ruthy's).
Here are five of our favorite food markets in NYC right now:
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Burrata is Dish #38 in our countdown (serving suggestion shown)
Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in every day (weekends, too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team.
Edward Faicco from Sorrento, Italy -- just southwest of Naples along the Bay of Naples -- founded Faicco's Pork Store in 1900. Almost from the beginning, the place made and dispensed mozzarella, a fresh full-milk cheese popular in southern Italy, where it's known as fiore di latte ("flower of milk").
Forget to pack a lunch? 
You can stop by Pier 16 today from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. for snacks from some of New Amsterdam Market's favorite vendors, including frozen treats from La Newyorkina, locavore tacos from Lonestar Taco, rolls from Luke's Lobster, and sandwiches from Porchetta, to name a few.
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This one is called Black Krim.
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At the start of the season in June, prices topped out at $5.50 per pound for vine-ripened heirloom tomatoes, nearly all grown in greenhouses by enterprising farmers. But now that the actual tomato harvest season is upon us (no greenhouse tomatoes here), farmers are discovering that they might have planted too many vines.
Here is what they look like just out of the freezer case.
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Categorized taxonomically as Boletus edulis, porcinis are one of the world's most flavorful mushrooms. They're indispensible to the cooking of Italy, and also treasured in France, where they're known as cepes. But few of us have ever tasted a fresh porcini. They have a narrow foraging season in early autumn in the northern Italian forests where they're gathered, and don't stay fresh very long. Porcinis are nearly impossible to cultivate.
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