It is officially the last market menu of the season. Our Sweet Autumn Bread is the perfect last recipe to post because its perfect for the upcoming holiday season. We have armed you with all of our best recipes to keep you nice and busy until next season, we even posted everyone’s favorite duck nachos. [...]

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It’s getting a bit chilly in New Haven! While we will miss the sunshine and warm weather, we are ready to start trying out some of our favorite fall soup recipes, like the Celeriac + Caramelized Onion Soup from this weeks market menu. Soups (when they aren’t coming straight from the can) are great for [...]

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Fall not only brings cooler weather and changing leaves, it brings apples! As we move out of peach season and into apple season, we wanted to jump right in with a delicious Juniper Apple Crisp as part of our special market menu in honor of CT Farm-to-Chef Week. We also recently received a fantastic review [...]

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I Will be at the CitySeed Farmer’s Market again this Saturday at Wooster Square between 10-12 doing another cooking demo. This time I will be making a chilled blueberry yogurt soup with chocolate mint pesto. In case you want to try to make it yourself, here is the recipe! Hope to see you there! -D

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You can’t get much better than a fresh heirloom tomato salad in the heat of the summer. Well, you can if you make a delectable raspberry vinaigrette and basil crackers to go with it! Here’s what we are serving for the Market Menu this week. And if you want to try to make the salad [...]

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This weeks market menu recipe is VEGETARIAN! Try our herb spaetzle next time you’re looking for an alternative meat-free recipe. -D

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Here is the this week’s market menu recipe! We are featuring a vegetable chili for you all to try. Remember to keep checking back for more recipes being posted.  And if you’re curious, take a look at the rest of our recipes too. -D

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In case you didn’t get to see Jan Ellen Spiegel’s article in the New York Times, she tagged along with me to the CitySeed Downtown Farmer’s Market to get to know the Market Menu a little more. “You’d think something as common as chicken would be causing a lot less stress for Ms. Appel, chef [...]

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Okay. We’re ready to announce more information about the new restaurant. The new concept is Kitchen ZINC: Artisan Pizza + Bar. We are working on the menu now, have been redesigning the interior with the help of New Haven architects, Karin Patriquin and the Collaborative Studio, and we’ve installed a brick pizza oven! As always, [...]

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So we were reading an article from the Wall Street Journal, and it hit the nail on the head. When we decided to rethink CHOW, we wanted to create a concept that was familiar and comfortable for everyone, while remaining true to our Farm to Table philosophy. The idea of filling the need [and stomachs] [...]

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