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#1 User is offline   TaliesinNYC 

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 11:37 PM

A little peeved here.

Two supermarkets in the Upper East Side of Manhattan don't carry FRESH ginger. They have pickled shredded ginger, minced ginger, ginger sauce but no FRESH ginger root. I had to go to a Gristede's on York Avenue just to get some.

Wilfrid should take heart. His argument in the Alice thread wins particularly since tonight's dinner is from one of Bittman's recent articles.

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#2 User is offline   Rail Paul 

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 12:03 AM

QUOTE(TaliesinNYC @ Sep 24 2008, 07:37 PM) View Post
A little peeved here.

Two supermarkets in the Upper East Side of Manhattan don't carry FRESH ginger. They have pickled shredded ginger, minced ginger, ginger sauce but no FRESH ginger root. I had to go to a Gristede's on York Avenue just to get some.

Wilfrid should take heart. His argument in the Alice thread wins particularly since tonight's dinner is from one of Bittman's recent articles.

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That's weird. Fresh ginger isn't exactly a rare, exotic ingredient
My only complaint was that if they need to charge me $30 because they're robbing the duck to pay the boar they might as well give me a more substantial portion of flour, water, and bits of meat.

Orik, on the pasta price at Hearth in NYC
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Posted 25 September 2008 - 03:16 AM

QUOTE(Rail Paul @ Sep 24 2008, 05:03 PM) View Post
QUOTE(TaliesinNYC @ Sep 24 2008, 07:37 PM) View Post
A little peeved here.

Two supermarkets in the Upper East Side of Manhattan don't carry FRESH ginger. They have pickled shredded ginger, minced ginger, ginger sauce but no FRESH ginger root. I had to go to a Gristede's on York Avenue just to get some.

Wilfrid should take heart. His argument in the Alice thread wins particularly since tonight's dinner is from one of Bittman's recent articles.

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That's weird. Fresh ginger isn't exactly a rare, exotic ingredient


Not in New York, no, I wouldn't think so, but I would bet money they don't have it at the supermarket in John Day, OR. I'll have to ask my brother. I was in the Ray's Place in Prineville, OR, and I was looking around for a box of Zatarain's rice mix and when I asked the clerk she looked at me as if I was speaking Martian. Funny thing was it wasn't five feet away from where we were standing, but she'd never heard of it.
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Posted 25 September 2008 - 03:51 AM

QUOTE(Rail Paul @ Sep 24 2008, 05:03 PM) View Post
QUOTE(TaliesinNYC @ Sep 24 2008, 07:37 PM) View Post
A little peeved here.

Two supermarkets in the Upper East Side of Manhattan don't carry FRESH ginger. They have pickled shredded ginger, minced ginger, ginger sauce but no FRESH ginger root. I had to go to a Gristede's on York Avenue just to get some.

Wilfrid should take heart. His argument in the Alice thread wins particularly since tonight's dinner is from one of Bittman's recent articles.

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That's weird. Fresh ginger isn't exactly a rare, exotic ingredient

Wasn't ginger briefly one of the purported culprits in a recent salmonella breakout?
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Posted 25 September 2008 - 10:33 AM

Over here I don't know a supermarket that doesn't carry fresh ginger.
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Posted 25 September 2008 - 12:12 PM

Isn't there a method of growing ginger indoors by keeping a "hand" of it in a pot of moistened sand? I seem to remember andiesenji touting it over on the other board. Never tried it myself, as there's always ginger in every market and supermarket here. At least that one staple would be taken care of.

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 12:20 PM

QUOTE(memesuze @ Sep 25 2008, 01:12 PM) View Post
Isn't there a method of growing ginger indoors by keeping a "hand" of it in a pot of moistened sand? I seem to remember andiesenji touting it over on the other board. Never tried it myself, as there's always ginger in every market and supermarket here. At least that one staple would be taken care of.

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You need to keep a constant, warm (if not hot) temperature to be successful. A design studio I used to work in (many moons ago) had photoreproduction equipment that had to be kept turned on 24/7 and at a constant temperature, the ginger they grew on the windowsill was a lovely plant with roots that they regularly harvested.

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 12:40 PM

QUOTE(SRD @ Sep 25 2008, 06:33 AM) View Post
Over here I don't know a supermarket that doesn't carry fresh ginger.


yeah.

That why I was sorta surprised that a store in the center of the center of the universe didn't carry it.
My only complaint was that if they need to charge me $30 because they're robbing the duck to pay the boar they might as well give me a more substantial portion of flour, water, and bits of meat.

Orik, on the pasta price at Hearth in NYC
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Posted 25 September 2008 - 03:43 PM

Talies, did you actually ask them whether they carry it, or did you just not see any? Because that is just bizarre!

If they actually do not carry it, you should speak to a manager and ask her/him to stock it for you.
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Posted 25 September 2008 - 03:50 PM

QUOTE(Squeat Mungry @ Sep 25 2008, 03:43 PM) View Post
Talies, did you actually ask them whether they carry it, or did you just not see any? Because that is just bizarre!

If they actually do not carry it, you should speak to a manager and ask her/him to stock it for you.


Oh, believe me, I looked.

One place sits on a corner a block from the apartment and is my go-to place for stuff like milk and paper towels. Hm, miso...check. Pickled ginger shreds, check. Minced ginger (with cane sugar and vinegar for some odd reason)...check. No fresh ginger root though they had the usual garlic/onions/shallots.

Then went to another market a couple blocks away. No ginger there either.

At this point I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. I was making Hainanese chicken rice and there's no way I'm going to be using pickled ginger for that. So I traipsed over to the Gristede's. They had some but not as much as I hoped for. angry.gif
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Posted 25 September 2008 - 03:57 PM

Oh, and another thing. A regular bag of rice (I forget the name but it starts with a C and it's the same one I grew up on since back in the 1970s) cost close to $8.

I don't eat rice regularly (weird for an Asian, huh) and while this bag will last me quite a while, that sticker shock caught me by surprise.
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Posted 25 September 2008 - 04:01 PM

It should be a five pound bag at that price.
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