MarketBasket: Straight cold coffee
To market, to market . . . The Head House Square Sunday Farmer's Market is back with fabulous seasonal produce. But there are excellent artisanal pantry products, too. Here are a couple worth checking out:
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To market, to market . . .
The Head House Square Sunday Farmer's Market is back with fabulous seasonal produce. But there are excellent artisanal pantry products, too. Here are a couple worth checking out:
Black garlic boom
The deeply sweet and funky tang of black garlic - heads that have been slow-fermented for weeks until the cloves take on a caramelized ebony hue - is among the hottest flavors on restaurant tables. New Jersey's Obis One, located in Pennsville at Obisquahassit, a working farm since 1670, has 44,000 organic cloves to harvest and sell at market this summer. They're sold as whole heads, peeled cloves, crushed into spice blends, or dried as "Black Crack," which can be ground fresh over your summer plates.
- Craig LaBan
Obis One Black garlic peeled black cloves, $9.99 a quarter-pound; Black Crack, $24.99 a grinder, at Head House Square market, or online (obisone.com).
Straight cold brew, no chaser
Philly Fair Trade Roasters is the latest local coffee company to bottle its cold brew, called Joe (as in roaster Joe Cesa.) Unlike many others on the market, which often come either presweetened or brewed extra-intense to counter the diluting effect of ice, this coffee's a smooth sipper pure and straight from the bottle, the Mexican beans from Chiapas full of balanced natural notes of cocoa, tangy tamarind, and caramel. It blends well with milk, but avoid adding too many cubes.
- C.L.
Philly Fair Trade Roasters cold-brewed coffee, $5.50 a 17 oz. jar (with 50 cents off for refills) at Head House, Fitler Square, Bryn Mawr, and Fairmount farmer's markets. Also available at Essene Market and Farm & Fisherman Tavern in Cherry Hill.