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The second produce market pop up I opened was in September of 2020, when the city was still and quiet. A small space in the heart of Little Italy, on Mulberry Street, owned by a family who had been on the block for decades. My little nook was tucked inside a soon to open vegan Italian deli. None of it made much sense to me, but it didn’t really matter. I was in love with a feeling and wanted to share it the only way I knew how: through the sacred act of sharing food. Of saying, here, taste this. I filled the shop with yellow oyster mushrooms, Femme Fatale lemons, Lucy Glo apples, perfectly ripe figs and whatever else stopped me in my tracks. Things with beautiful names and strange colors. Things you wanted to pick up, smell, taste, ask where they came from. At the time, I wrote that Alimentari existed because I believed the city needed a glimmer of beauty and romance. A little permission to wander. To indulge in the most healthy form of escapism. I wanted people to slow down. To remember that breaking bread, biting into a fig or handing someone a piece of fruit could be intimate. That there was romance to be found in the leaves of a satsuma. Looking back, Alimentari was my response to how overwhelming the world felt then. A small place devoted to quality, curiosity and finding romance through the senses. It was messy, deeply passionate and almost entirely spontaneous. Six years later, I’m still chasing the same feeling. Here, taste this.

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