It's here, New York. Food52 has transformed our NYC HQ and gorgeous Test Kitchen over in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan into a three-day spring pop-up market: our Big Spring Spruce-Up. Scroll down for more details on the events happening at the market—but first, jot down the essentials:
WHEN?
Friday, April 21 to Sunday, April 23
WHERE?
Food52 HQ and Test Kitchen, 122 West 26th St, 8th Floor
We've basically brought our website to life, much like we did with our Holiday Market a few months back. We’ll be featuring our newest and niftiest cleaning tools, cookware, time-saving gadgets, and tabletop decor, all in celebration of this bright, breezy season we call spring. (Psssst! If you're not in NYC you can see (and Shop!) what's on display, here.)
6:00 - 7:30 PM Wedding Night with Food52 Our pop-up market is staying open late! Come sip champagne while you shop home and kitchen treasures to inspire the registry of your dreams. What's more, you can look forward to signature desserts from Mah-Ze-Dahr Bakery—they might just inspire some sweet wedding ideas.
12:00 - 2:00 PM Cookie Demo and Tasting with Ovenly founders Erin Patinkin and Agatha Kulaga
12:00 - 2:00 PM Sweetgreen Lunch + Mighty Salads Cookbook Signing Join us for Food52 custom-designed Sweetgreen salads and Matcha Fresca. Tickets: $23, which includes a signed copy of Mighty Salads. We'll have all of the authors on hand to sign it for you too!
2:00 - 6:00 PM Food52 Shop Maker Tastings Featuring Chocolate Twist, Eattiamo, Especially Puglia, La Tienda, Palais des Thés, Sugar Plum and Xocolatti Chocolate
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking with Samin Nosrat Samin Nosrat, author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat takes us through her cooking process so that we can cook like she does: intuitively, with curiosity, and with joy!
12:00 PM Ample Hills x Food52 Burnt Toast Ice Cream Contest We've teamed up with Ample Hills to host an ice cream contest to celebrate our newly released cookbook Ice Cream & Friends with twists on its Burnt Toast flavor. Come by to sample the three specialty flavors of Burnt Toast ice cream that we dreamed up—and help us determine the winning flavor, launching this summer!
Mayukh Sen is a James Beard Award-winning food and culture writer in New York. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Bon Appetit, and elsewhere. He won a 2018 James Beard Award in Journalism for his profile of Princess Pamela published on Food52.
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