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Farm stand fresh: Where to get these funky eggplant varieties

by Vera Chinese on August 11th, 2014
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Deep purple fairy tale, Asian and Italian eggplants are now in-season at Mar-Gene Farms in Mattituck.

While the Italian variety is perfect for eggplant parmigiana, a chef might have to find other uses for the skinny Asian eggplant and the teeny fairy tale variety.

“You can barbecue the fairy tale eggplant whole,” farmer Gene Krupski said. “Just slice them and cover them in olive oil and garlic.”

Mar-Gene Farms does not have a farm stand, but their produce is available at the North Fork Table & Inn’s farmers market on Fridays and at the Riverhead and Greenport farmers markets on Saturdays.

Fairy tale eggplant is $3.50 per pound, the Asian variety is $2.50 per pound and the Italian eggplant is $3.50 per pound.

The vegetable will be in season through late August, Krupski said.

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Asian eggplant from Mar-Gene Farms in Mattituck. (Credit: Vera Chinese)
Italian eggplant. (Credit: Vera Chinese)
Italian eggplant. (Credit: Vera Chinese)

 

 

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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