A few ‘city-crafted’ apples and pears
Sep 18th, 2008 by Suzanne Long
We sold over a bushel of Spadina’s heritage apples and several pounds of Ward 21’s backyard pears. Pretty exciting, considering they were bought by Jamie Kennedy Kitchens.
Not part of our normal operations, certainly. But when the last minute invitation arrived, we thought it’d be nice to participate. The fruit was used at the From the Ground Up event, a talk about urban agriculture by Michael Ableman and other panelists (including our new friend and author Liz Driver from the Culinary Historians of Ontario) followed by a dinner at the Gardiner Museum.
We seem to be stumbling into a number of nice pairings this fall!
Thanks to Michael, produce manager at Karma Food Co-Op, who suggested the term “city-crafted.” He explained that sometimes members will sell their backyard grapes and such to the store. Building on the practice of “wild-crafting” they dreamed up the term “city-crafted.”