Welcome to Anarchy in a Jar Jam, jelly, marmalade and chutney made with love in Brooklyn, New York.
local.handmade.artisanal.urban
Anarchy is freedom from food tyranny.
Find Us We get around. Where are we selling jam now?
MARKETS & EVENTS
Smorgasburg: Starts Saturday, April 7th, 2012 from 11-6pm
New Amsterdam Market: Starts May 2012, 11-4
BROOKLYN
Fort Greene
>Greene Grape Provisions
Ditmas Park
>Market
Williamsburg
>Radish
>Bedford Cheese Shop
Carroll Gardens
>Court Street Grocers
>Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain
>By Brooklyn
Steve's Ice Cream coming soon to Boerum Hill in Brooklyn (420 Atlantic Ave)
Greenpoint
>Eastern District
DUMBO
>Forager's Market
MANHATTAN
>Whole Foods, all NYC locations LES Bowery, UWS, Union Square, Tribeca, Chelsea, Columbus Circle
>Murray's Cheese in the West Village & Grand Central Terminal
>Lucy's Whey in Chelsea Market
>Nolita Mart in Chinatown
>Blue Ribbon Bakery in the West Village
>Dickson's Farmstead Meats in Chelsea Market
>Forager's Market in Chelsea
TRI-STATE
>The Hop: Craft Beer & Artisanal Fare in Beacon, NY
COMING SOON to >Whole Foods Market Long Island, Connecticut and New Jersey
ONLINE
Buy our jam online at Sif Foods
or Murray's Cheese
or New York Mouth
or With Love, From Brooklyn
Local Fruit Farms Our favorite organic*, pick-your-own fruit farms in Southeast New York.
Thompson-Finch Farm
gorgeous organic strawberries and raspberries.
Ancram, NY http://thompsonfinch.com
Garden of Eve farm
vegetables, fruits and flowers. Pick-your-own and farmstand. They also have a stand at Brooklyn's McCarren Park Farmer’s Market.
North Fork, Long Island http://www.gardenofevefarm.com
Fishkill Farms
apples, peaches, cherries! Hopewell Jct., NY http://www.fishkillfarms.com
Handsome Brook Farm
raspberries and tomatoes. Franklin, NY www.handsomebrookfarm.com
Fix Brothers Orchards
cherries (sweet, sour or black), peaches and apples. NOT certified organic, but the best cherries, including the rare dark-red morello cherry! A beautiful spot overlooking the Hudson River.
Hudson, NY Phone: (518) 828-7560
Liberty View Farm
fruit, vegetable, and honey.
Highland, NY
Montgomery Place Orchards
all kinds of fruit, especially great for heirloom varieties. A beautiful spot near the Hudson River and the pretty towns of Red Hook & Rhinebeck.
Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Phone: (845)758.6338
*growing organic fruit in the NE is very hard, and therefore there are very few farms that do it, hence the inclusion of low-spray. We feel that local trumps organic: support your local farms!
Local Fruit Harvesting Dates
Tart Cherries: July 1-July 25
Blueberries: July 15-August 25
Summer Raspberries: July 15-August 15
Apples: Mid-July-Late October
Fall Raspberries: Sept 3-Oct 31 (or hard freeze)
Eco-Delivery with “Traffic Jam” Bike Delivery Service Need some jam RIGHT NOW? Do you live in Brooklyn or lower Manhattan? We can deliver the goods to your door via our bike, Bluebell.
It's a recession, people, and eating out is so passe. That's why Traffic Jam is here to rock your Sunday morning.
For details and to place an order, visit the "Get Jam" page.
Quotes from Anarchy Eaters "Tumultuously tasty." ~Edible Brooklyn
"extraordinary preserves." ~Julia Moskin, New York Times
"In Laena McCarthy's hands, chaos is sweet." ~Tasting Table
"exceptional Strawberry Balsamic Jam." ~Cool Hunting
"a delicious and quirky play at locavorianism." ~MadeMan
"The first bite was so good, saliva literally sprayed out of my mouth." ~Halle
"Nom Nom." ~Holly
"It's amore!" ~pseudo-Italian guy
"Totally rad." ~jam loving hipster
"I've been dreaming about your jam." ~ Caroline
"Nothing compares to you." ~JB
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Portada’s Pineapple Preserves
 spiral cut pineapple My friend Lauren has been helping me cook the jams on a couple of occasions, and she’s great–cheerful, funny, smart and skilled with a knife. She’s a huge fan of pineapple, and we found ourselves lost in reverie as we recalled the delicious southeast Asian roadside treat of fresh picked pineapple, lime, chili & salt. It’s pineapple season south of here, so I decided to make a pineapple preserve in her honor. I wanted to keep it a secret, but I can’t keep anything that I’m excited about a secret, so I told all her friends and then I told her. She showed me an incredible technique for cutting pineapple that she learned from a little girl in Cambodia.The fruit is sliced in a spiral, thus removing the eyes and woody bits while sacrificing the least amount of delicious flesh. It will be a rad jam, look for it at a market near you….
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Buy the Cookbook 
Our jam cookbook is almost here! Whoopee! It debuts August 2nd, but you can score a copy now.
Purchase Jam On: The Craft of Canning Fruit at your favorite bookstore or from the following sites:
--Amazon
--Barnes & Noble
--Indiebound
--iTunes
--Books A Million
Ask A Jam Queen Go to our FAQs page where the jam queens answer your most intimate jam questions and expel deceitful rumors.
Find out the answers to such zingers as:
Q: What’s the difference between jam, jelly, preserves, marmalade and conserves?
Q: What’s pectin?
Q: What’s an “heirloom”?
Q:Can jam kill you?
News & Reviews of Anarchy in a Jar
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I love love the pineapple cutting technique! Can’t wait to try it out. Always looking forward to new posts about your business. Just getting started here in Maine. Let me know if you’re up for a jam swap in late summer. It’s something I read about on underthehighchair.blogspot.com. Looks fabulous!
This looks great – I’ve always loved making jams and jarring preserves. I will have to amke some of these this summer. Nice picture too!
Hooray for the Pineapple!
Such a versatile treasure of citrus sweetness. Turning the pineapple into jam with Laena has been an enriching experience — she has a knack for making fruit taste even better once passed through her hands! A spoonful of this jam on top of toasted pound cake is pretty stellar.