Barbra Austin

Two good meals, two wildly different price points.

Memorial Day weekend is considered the unofficial start of summer, but if anything is clear after a walk around the Greenmarket this morning, it is that spring has sprung.

I initially published this about a year ago, from Paris, where asparagus was on abundant display at every market. At Union Square the other day I was happy to see that the tri-state crop had finally come in, and I thought I’d revisit the idea of asperges crues.

All I wanted to do was make rhubarb upside-down cake. The universe (at least below 14th Street) was not on my side.