In New York City's Greenmarkets, Craig Colvin, far left, and Katie Booth are called the pesto people. With good reason. Mr. Colvin, who owns Sweet Pea Organics and Bear Pond Farm in Washington Depot, Conn., and Ms. Booth, who works with him at the Greenmarkets, sell pesto that he makes from the organic herbs he grows.
The pestos, dense with flavor, are made with ingredients including Sicilian oregano, cilantro and classic basil (but no nuts), and are $5 a half-pint. A lemon pesto made from basil and field greens is perfect for fish. Mr. Colvin also makes a tart-sweet heirloom tomato sauce for pasta ($5 a pint), and a rhubarb chutney called Rhubarbecue Sauce ($5 a half-pint), which doubles as a barbecue sauce or as a noteworthy foil for foie gras and pâtés.
The products are in the Greenmarkets at Bowling Green and St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on Tuesdays, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza and TriBeCa on Wednesdays, West 97th Street on Fridays and Brooklyn Borough Hall and TriBeCa on Saturdays.
These sauces are delicious. You can also get them at the wonderful new
Pumpkin Organic Market which doesn't have a web page yet, so you have to go visit it yourself.
Comments
Pesto is my very favorite thing. Better than peaches, the Simpsons, Twin Peaks, Bob Dylan, and Cocoa. Better than 2300 years of mathematics. I'm eating it right now, at 10:30 in the morning.
Just thought I'd share.
Posted by: Joshua Davis | September 18, 2002 10:37 AM
I also had pesto for breakfast! I may prefer Twin Peaks to pesto, though.
Posted by: david | September 18, 2002 10:43 AM