A Precious Strawberry Drops Its Price

Bright local strawberries are showing up on farm stands and in the city’s Greenmarkets. Like the Hudson Valley and Long Island, New Jersey is a major source, but not just for seasonal field-grown fruit. A couple of indoor growers, Bowery Farming and Oishii, are cultivating them indoors with no seasonal limitations. They’re grown without pesticides…

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Taste the Rainbow This Pride Month

June is Pride Month and to celebrate, the chefs Seleste Tan and Mogan Anthony — the owners of Lady Wong, an East Village bakery that specializes in Southeast Asian confections — offer a dazzling steamed Indonesian rainbow cake. The petite stack of thin, multicolored, slightly spongy gelatinous layers is meant to be eaten by peeling…

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