Get excited because this Saturday, Harlem's Morningside Park Farmer's Market will gear back up for the season. 
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Thick meaty rhubarb is available in abundance.
Several products have recently debuted for the season in the Union Square Greenmarket and will be generally available this weekend and in the coming week. Bright red and much thicker than the specimens seen last week, rhubarb is a welcome harbinger of late-spring vegetables. Use it to make a pie or crumble. It can also be pickled (as Williamsburg's Parish Hall has done) or made into jam for use year-round.
Fiendishly expensive, but they are the first.
Spring strawberries from local sources appeared for the first time this season in the Union Square Greenmarket. Priced at $4.50 per pint, the price was steep, but the fruit proved sweet and juicy, so good you wouldn't dare use them in a pie or jams.
Eight dollars gets you a branch of freshly cut lilacs -- better than bathroom deodorizer.
Despite temps that hovered around 42 degrees in the morning, Greenmarkets in the city were thronged today with cold-weather-weary visitors. For gardeners and their window-box-tilling cousins, there were sets aplenty of annual flowers, herbs, ornamental foliage, and baby lettuces--though who in their right mind would buy already-sprouted lettuce in a pot? Here are a few snapshots from today's Union Square farmers' market.
Female crab broken open to display orange roe -- that's some good eatin'!
This morning Fork in the Road wrote about the spiny softshell turtles currently being displayed live in Chinatown fish markets. But those aren't the only things crawling around in wooden crates and cardboard boxes on display right on the sidewalk. The blue-crab season is also in full swing.
The spiny softshell (Apalone spinifera) is available live in Chinatown fish markets along Mott and Grand streets.
Those who enjoy looking in those cardboard boxes (either approvingly or disapprovingly) that are used to merchandise live creatures on the sidewalks in front of Chinatown markets had a surprise in store for them yesterday: live softshell spiny turtles, who appeared to be sunning themselves in the cramped boxes.
Goober lovers will want to check this 
new old brand out.
One of the best parts of the Age of Foodism is the way that diverse odd products come sailing our way when we least expect them. A case in point is the smirkingly named Cream-Nut Peanut Butter.
You'll have to take it home in a cab.
Jackfruit -- especially in these parts -- normally comes in cans. Also known as Artocarpus heterophyllus, the bumpy green humongous fruit is produced by a tree native to southern Indian and Southeast Asia that's a cousin of the mulberry. It's also the largest fruit in the world.
The whelks surround the scale, waiting to be purchased (actually, just the shells).
Three weeks ago, Fork in the Road welcomed the whelks (a/k/a sea snails) to the menu of newly opened Bowery Diner, which we considered quite a stroke of genius on the restaurant's part. They're served raw, and also with garlic butter, the way the French serve escargot.
We're hereby declaring a start to the Valentine's Day mayhem, and hope to give you some decent advice as to where to eat cheaply and well in a romantic atmosphere, and what kind of foodie gifts are available in a Cupidian theme.
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