Messy and Picky

Every Wednesday from last week through mid-November, Farm to City brings to City Hall it's very own farmers' market. The market is open from Noon to 6p and is right in the inner concourse. Above is a shot of the end stall selling cut flowers and herbs (I bought some nice chives from this stall) […]

Several weeks into spring, the city's farmers' markets run by The Food Trust and Farm to City are about to open up once again. While the Fair Food Farmstand and Sue's Produce (haven't been making it out to the farmers' markets at Fitler Square and Clark Park at all) has been keeping our kitchen lively […]

There's Messy unpacking our latest kitchen gadget, a Krups waffle maker. We won it during Foster's Urban Homeware's grand opening weekend raffle. They were gave away all kinds of really cool stuff to celebrate the opening of their new store on 4th and Market — how awesome of them! Messy — who has not won […]

Philly Flavors has been a Fairmount staple (located across the street from Eastern State Penitentiary) for over five years now, and they've just added a new location in Center City: 343 S. 13th St., just up the block from Dirty Frank's (and a conveniently short walk from M&P HQ!).
Washington Square West is quickly transforming into […]

We promised to update this site more frequently. . . and then February passed with nary a post. We're sorry about that — life got in the way. We were both tied up with lots of working, lots of classes, little money to eat out and little time to experiment with new recipes. Basically, we […]

Messy picked up her boss's copy of Philadelphia magazine yesterday, since the current issue is dedicated to food in Philly. We looked through it together, and we were both totally suprised to find that we received a little shout-out. Thanks for noticing us, Philadelphia magazine! We were also a little embarrassed to find that our […]