Soho House Chicago to Become 3rd Location for Green City Market Opening Tomorow - Sunday, June 14th

Soho House Chicago      On Sunday, June 14th, Green City Market will open a third site at Soho House Chicago, located at 113-125 North Green Street. Open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the market will take over the lot behind the House, between Halsted and Green Street every second Sunday of the month through October 11th.   “We are delighted to be opening this market at Soho House Chicago,” said Melissa Flynn, executive director of Green City Market. “The Fulton Market District is a vibrant growing community.”   According to Sarah Stegner, co-president of the Green City Market board and chef/owner of Prairie Grass Cafe, “Green City Market gives our farmers and vendors the opportunity to personally connect to the public as well as to chefs, restaurateurs and other food organizations who regularly shop the market. Soho House Chicago has been an exemplary member of the community since its opening and we are delighted to have this partnership.” “We are thrilled to be partnering with Green City Market,” explains General Manager of Soho House Chicago, Thomas Lennard. “Sourcing the best, locally grown ingredients is always a fundamental part of all of our restaurants. To be able to support the local farmers, many from whom we source ourselves, is an exciting opportunity. Food is about bringing people together, and we look forward to offering a space where the neighborhood and food community can connect."  Green City Market is known as a national leader in supporting small family farms and promoting a healthier society through education and appreciation for local, fresh, sustainably raised produce and products. It was recently named by USA Today in the top 4 such markets in the nation.   Green City Market Soho House Chicago will run 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every second Sunday of the month -- June 14, July 12, August 9, September 13 and October 11. About Green City Market Green City Market is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization celebrating its 17th anniversary. The mission of Green City Market is to provide a marketplace for purchasing sustainably grown food and to educate, promote and connect farmers and local producers directly to chefs, restaurateurs, and the greater Chicago community. Green City Market values education about quality food and its source. Green City Market values farmers who take care of the land; the preservation of sustainably farmed land; a vibrant thriving community of local farms; and consumption of locally grown foods. Green City Market’s incredible momentum comes from its broad base of support including conscientious and caring farmers and producers, consumers, chefs, restaurateurs, and other culinary professionals. It also reflects Chicagoans' increasing concern for a more sustainable food system by improving the quality of food on the table, produced by local farmers using organic and sustainable practices that preserve the environment for future generations. GCM's support of these local artisan farmers and producers increases the density of fresh, high-quality, locally produced food in Chicago, and provides the basis for a regional cuisine. For more information visit greencitymarket.org     Share:

Grilling for Father's Day? Shop for Dad at Green City Market

This Father’s Day weekend, skip the trip to the local grocery store. Instead, plan your meals and more at Green City Market. There is no better way to have a traditional Father’s Day than with delicious grilled meats and veggies that you know are sustainable and all-natural. Located in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, Green City Market (7 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Wednesday and Saturday between Clark Street and Stockton Drive at approximately 1817 N. Clark), Green City Market Fulton in the Fulton Market District (799 W. Fulton Market at Halsted; 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays only), and Green City Market Soho House, 113-125 North Green Street, Chicago (opening Sunday, June 14 and running 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every second Sunday of the month through October 11) are filled with dozens of farmers and vendors stocked with fresh goodies the whole family can enjoy.

Let Dad fill his grill with meat bought straight from the farmers who raised it and with veggies picked the morning you buy them. While you’re there, pick up a copy of the Green City Market Cookbook and discover new ways to grill the classics. 

The Green City Market Cookbook is a collection of recipes gathered from our entire community of customers, volunteers, farmers and Chicago chefs. Each recipe was carefully selected by a team of culinary professionals and features the main crops of each season, and the story behind the recipe from each contributor.

The culinary talent of The Green City Market community is what makes this book unique. It's like a giant recipe swap where professional chefs, customers, and farmers exchange their favorite things to cook with the best ingredients from each season.

GCM Cookbook is available at the market as well as on the Green City Market website http://www.greencitymarket.org. The cost is $24.95.

What's in it?

• Over 90 seasonal recipes based on ingredients from the market.
• Appetizers, entrees, soups and desserts for each season.
• Over 100 photos of the delicious dishes and their key ingredient so you know what to look for at the market.
• Each recipe features a short story submitted by the recipe's author about why the recipe is special to them.

Buy Dad and the Family Tickets to the Green City Market BBQ Thursday, July 16
 

Green City Market will be hosting its 15th annual Chef BBQ Benefit 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 16 in Lincoln Park, featuring the who’s who of Chicago’s culinary scene. It makes the perfect father’s day gift for the foodie dad in your life.

All dishes served at the BBQ feature items offered from the bounty of the market with nearly 100 chefs and restaurants creating culinary magic. In addition to food, 50 of the Midwest’s best brewers, distilleries, wineries, and mixologists will feature locally made craft beer, wine, hand-crafted cocktails and non-alcoholic beverages. Advance tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets and at the Green City Market on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Check the Green City Market website at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event. General admission tickets are $125; individual VIP tickets are $250. For the first time this year, VIP tickets may be purchased in various quantities, making it easy for companies and families to enjoy the special treatment in groups of whatever table configuration they want. VIP ticket holders are treated to a special early VIP reception from 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Guests are encouraged to purchase tickets early this year as this event has sold out in past years.

 Summer Bean Salad with Sun Gold Tomatoes, Market Herbs, Smoked Trout, and Goat Cheese Dressing

I’ve been going to Green City Market twice a week since 1999. My thing is to get there before anybody else, just before it opens, around 6:00 a.m. At that hour, I might chance upon a special find or something in limited quantity: tiny mustard greens with flowers, baby sunchokes, or the first of the July tomatoes. The beans and tomatoes in this dish just happened to be sitting on Beth Eccles’ tables at the Green Acres Farm stand one day, and the idea leapt into my mind to do a light salad with smoked trout from Rushing Waters. These are the kinds of magical moments you search for as a chef; those that seem to happen at that early morning hour as you walk through the day’s harvest. —Jason Hammel, co-owner/chef, Lula Cafe; co-owner, Nightwood Restaurant

Prep time: 30 minutes

Cook time: 1 minute

Makes 4 servings

2 ¼ teaspoons salt, divided

½ pound mixed pole beans, such as yellow, green, and haricots verts, etc.

2 small pattypan squash, sliced on a mandoline or very thinly sliced

2 radishes, sliced on a mandoline or very thinly sliced

½ cup yellow Sun Gold cherry tomatoes, quartered or halved

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

2 teaspoons red wine vinegar or champagne vinegar

¼ cup chopped mixed fresh herbs, such as tarragon, thyme, basil, and chives

¼ cup sour cream

¼ cup buttermilk

1 small shallot, minced

1 tablespoon honey

1 ½ teaspoons cider vinegar

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

½ cup crumbled goat cheese

3 ounces smoked trout, broken into chunks

Cooking Instructions:

1. Place a bowl of ice water next to the sink
2. Fill a large stockpot with water and place it over high heat. Add 2 teaspoons of the salt and bring to a rolling boil. Add the beans and simmer for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Remove from the heat.
3. Drain the beans and plunge them into the ice water bath to cool. Drain, pat dry with a paper towel, and cut the beans on the bias into ½-inch slices.
4. In a large bowl, toss together the beans, squash, radishes, tomatoes, oil, red wine vinegar, and the remaining ¼ teaspoon of salt. Add the herbs and toss again.
5. In a medium bowl, combine the sour cream, buttermilk, shallot, honey, cider vinegar, and mustard and mix well. Stir in the goat cheese.
6. Spoon the dressing onto 4 serving plates. Top with the bean mixture and smoked trout and serve.

Reprinted with permission from The Green City Market Cookbook, Agate Publishing, 2014.

About Green City Market

Green City Market is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization celebrating its 17th anniversary. The mission of Green City Market is to provide a marketplace for purchasing sustainably grown food and to educate, promote and connect farmers and local producers directly to chefs, restaurateurs, and the greater Chicago community. Green City Market values education about quality food and its source. Green City Market values farmers who take care of the land; the preservation of sustainably farmed land; a vibrant thriving community of local farms; and consumption of locally grown foods.

Green City Market’s incredible momentum comes from its broad base of support including conscientious and caring farmers and producers, consumers, chefs, restaurateurs, and other culinary professionals. It also reflects Chicagoans' increasing concern for a more sustainable food system by improving the quality of food on the table, produced by local farmers using organic and sustainable practices that preserves the environment for future generations. GCM's support of these local artisan farmers and producers increases the density of fresh, high-quality, locally produced food in Chicago, and provides the basis for a regional cuisine.

Photo credit: Cindy Kurman, Kurman Communications, Inc.

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Green City Market Fulton Opens Tomorrow with Special Appearance by Simon Majumdar

Green City Market Fulton, sister to the Green City Market in Lincoln Park, opens its second season this Saturday, June 6 at the southeast corner of Fulton and Halsted streets. Hours are 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday through October. Green City Market is Chicago’s premier sustainable outdoor farmer’s market. Having a market so central to Chicago's burgeoning Fulton Market Innovation District is exciting," says Melissa Flynn, Green City Market's executive director.  "Green City Market is a perfect market partner for the district," said Sarah Stegner and Vi Daley, co-chairs of the Green City Market board. "We have a 17-year proven history in Lincoln Park. We are excited for the farmers to have an opportunity to increase the flow of local food to the community and thrilled that we've been asked back for our second season here." Vendors will be selling organic and sustainable produce, vegetables and other goods at the market. The growing Fulton Market District/West Loop is one of Chicago’s most popular and fastest growing neighborhoods.  Confirmed Vendors include: Bushel and Peck's Co-op Sauce Crumb Chicago Green Acres Farm Hillside Orchard Hoosier Mama Leaning Shed Farm Mint Creek Farm Nichols Farm and Orchard Phoenix Bean Seedling The Flower Garden Tomato Mountain   Simon Majumdaar Book Signing June 6 Simon Majumdar, a mainstay on The Food Network and known as one of its toughest critics, will be signing his new book, Fed, White and Blue: Finding America with My Fork, beginning at 10 a.m. June 6 at the Green City Market Fulton. Simon has appeared on numerous episodes of Iron Chef America, Beat Bobby Flay, The Next Iron Chef, Best Thing I Ever Ate, and Extreme Chef. He is a recurring judge on Cutthroat Kitchen. About Green City Market The mission of Green City Market is to improve the availability of a diverse range of high quality foods, connecting local producers and farmers to chefs, restaurateurs, food organizations and the public, and supporting small family farms while promoting a healthier society through education and appreciation for local, fresh, sustainably raised produce and products. Green City Market has been a destination for locals and visitors to Chicago since its inception in 1998. It has consistently been named in the top 10 of the nation’s best farmers markets by national publications such as USA Today, Bon Appetit, Travel & Leisure, Forbes, Shape, CNN, Huffington Post and US News, among others.  For more information, visit Green City Market’s website athttp://www.greencitymarket.org or call 773-880-1266.  Share:

About Simon Majumdar At the age of forty, like so many other people, I realized that there had to  be more to my existence than the 9-5 daily grind in book publishing that had filled the last twenty years of my life. Brought to the tipping point by a genuine mid-life crisis, the death of my mother and stressful changes in the work place, I quit my job and set out to fulfill my life’s ambition to “Go Everywhere, Eat Everything” beginning a journey which cost me most of my life savings, took me to thirty one countries in a little over a year and resulted in my critically acclaimed book, EAT MY GLOBE (The Free Press, 2009) Along the way, I not only ate thousands of meals, from the divine and delectable to the unusual and unpalatable, but also encountered hundreds of people. Some I knew through interaction on food websites and my own internationally popular food blog,www.doshermanos.co.uk and others I met along the way. What they all had in common was the fact that they welcomed this often weary traveler into their lives with incredible generosity and showed me the glories of their culture through the medium of food. This led to such extraordinary experiences as sharing the picnic lunches of passengers on the train from Marrakech to Casablanca, working with a team of meat enthusiasts at The American Royal, the world’s biggest barbecue competition and even sharing home cooked meals in places as far apart as Finland, China, Mongolia and Mexico. While it was often a delicious trip, it was also an eye opening one as I found myself riding the rails in China, staring down gun toting security guards in Brazil and braving the scooter -thronged roads of Hanoi. In the end, this journey was not just about the experiences of food and travel, but also a journey into myself and a lesson about the next chapter in my life. It is a lesson I am always keen to share and while my style might be irreverent at the very heart of my journey is a genuine and deep felt affection for people. It is an affection which the London Daily Telegraph says “really nourishes the soul” In 2011, the UK Press Gazette voted Simon in at Number 20 on their list of the Top 50 Food & Drink Journalists. Also, in 2011, Esquire Magazine (UK) called Simon’s blog, DOS HERMANOS, the “Number 1 UK Blog That Restaurants Fear” and noted that “it’s still one of the most widely read – and best.” In 2010, Simon’s second book, EATING FOR BRITAIN, was published to acclaim. In it, he traveled throughout the UK to find out what British food — from Arbroath Smokies to Welsh Cakes to chicken tikka masala — reveals about British identity. Also, in 2010, Simon was selected as one of the three recurring judges for season three of The Food Network’s Next Iron Chef America. The show premiered in October of 2010 and led to over a dozen appearances on Iron Chef America as a judge and on Food Network’s Best Thing I Ever ate as a food expert. In 2012, Simon completed his third season of Next Iron Chef and had also a recurring judge role on two seasons of the hit Food Network show Extreme Chef. In 2009, GQ Magazine chose Dos Hermanos as one of the “100 Best Things In The World” calling it “Michelin starred food blogging.” In 2008, Simon was voted by The London Evening Standard as one of the 1000 Most Influential People in London. Share:

Maxwell’s Featuring Tapas, Spanish Wine Specials at Dinner through May 31

Maxwell’s at the Club, located in the East Bank Club at 500 N. Kingsbury St. (telephone: 312-527-5800, ext. 301), is hosting “Taste Around Town,” dinner special featuring wines from the Rías Baixas region of Spain and a variety of special tapas now through May 31. Rías Baixas is renowned for its white wine, made from the Albariño grape variety. “Let Maxwell’s take you on an adventure to Spain, all without leaving Chicago. The tapas menu is designed to complement the selected wines,” said Mike Romano, Food and Beverage Director for the East Bank Club. To make reservations, please call (312) 527-5800, extension 301, or schedule your table online at maxwellsattheclub.com 

Taste Around Town

Through May 31

Wines

 Pazo de Señorans, Albariño, $11 / $30

  RÍas Baixas, Spain, 2013

Bodegas Castro Martin, A20, Albariño, $12 / $32

 RÍas Baixas, Spain, 2013

Martín Códax, Albariño, $9 / $24

 RÍas Baixas, Spain, 2013

 Wine flight of all three, $11

Tapas Menu

Purple Asparagus Salad, $5

 Jerez sherry vinaigrette, breakfast radishes, Manchego cheese

 Mick Klug Farms, Green Acre Farms

Patatas Bravas, $5

Grilled Beef Tenderloin Medallion, $8

 Oyster mushrooms

Roasted Saffron Cauliflower, $5

 Shallots

Manila Clams, $7

 Spanish chorizo, peppers, toasted bread crumbs

Hazard Free Farm Blood Butcher Polenta, $8

 Pan-roasted prawn with shrimp butter

                       

Menu subject to change

Purple Asparagus Salad $5 

Manila Clams $7

Grilled Beef Tenderloin Medallion $8

photos by Cindy Kurman, Kurman Communications, Inc.

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