Out-of-work chefs from New York’s best restaurants are lending a hand at the Greenmarket
Zaid Kurdieh, at the Union Square Greenmarket. Photo: Nina Roberts At the Norwich Meadows Farm stand in the Union Square Greenmarket, Zaid Kurdieh — who owns the farm with his wife, Haifa — carries an economy-size jug of hand sanitizer. When one of his volunteers pointed out the jug’s pump didn’t work properly, spraying the precious sanitizer in an unpredictable fashion, Kurdieh looked, and got it working in the proper fashion. “You just have to be nice to it,” he explained.
Kurdieh had to move fast, too, to figure out how to get his products to where his customers are: their homes. By late March, he was taking orders for Norwich Meadows produce boxes, costing $50 each.
Aumeunier, who hails from France and ordered vegetables from Kurdieh while he worked at Per Se, excelled at his first job, and his role quickly evolved into overseeing the assemblage of the new produce boxes. A shift now involves hauling bins of carrots and turnips, or dividing 1,200 pounds of produce into two- or three-pound bags. “Now,” he jokes, “I work more than if I was working in the kitchen.
The chefs take advantage of Norwich Meadows vegetables, too, making fermented concoctions at home, or kale pesto with the bag of produce Kurdieh gives to them. “I find myself obviously feeling down about it,” says Mirra Sims, a sous-chef from 232 Bleecker who thinks fine dining is definitely going to take a big hit and wonders, “Is this the end of neighborhood restaurants?”
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