Welcome to the Jamarchy

Jam, jelly, preserves 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

>Sunday Farm Market 11-5 @ Roberta's in Bushwick, Brooklyn

>New Amsterdam Market @ South Street Seaport, August 2010

BROOKLYN

>Greene Grape Provisions in Fort Greene

>Market in Ditmas Park
>Radish in Williamsburg
>>The General Greene Grocery in Fort Greene

>No. 7 in Fort Greene

MANHATTAN SHELVES & TABLES

>Whole Foods, Bowery Location on the LES
>Lucy's Whey in Chelsea Market
>Northern Spy Food Co. in the East Village
>Louis 649 in the East Village
>AKA Hotel Cafe in Midtown

COMING SOON:
Oro @ Lafayette & Spring St. in SoHo, Manhattan

Donna Da Vine Provisions in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

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.

bluebell

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

Jam on it

"Farm Frank" hot dog with hot pepper jelly, green tomato relish, radish and carrot pickles, & smoked paprika aioli

We’ve been a little bit MIA on the old jam blog here, it’s been a busy summer, what with jamming, farming and shakin’ our jammer booties at different events around town. But Autumn is upon us, [...]

How to Jam #3: Jam Crostata

In our attempts to encourage everyone to live in our jamarchy — a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom from food tyranny –we’re adding to the roster of things to do with jam. Pastry + jam = pure goodness.

JAM CROSTATA

SERVINGS: MAKES ONE 9-INCH TART

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon [...]

Blood oranges zest my world

blood oranges, before the slaughter

Blood oranges don’t need a sell, they’re perfect: tart, sweet, and bitter. The taste makes you feel enlivened and awake as the best citrus does. I’ve kept it simple and haven’t added any complex flavors. Pure. Simple. Good.

I posted my recipe last year, but decided to skip the addition of [...]

Lime & Pandan Leaf Marmalade

pandan extract about to enter the marmalade

pandan leaves in the wild

Today we made Lime & Pandan Marmalade with pandan leaf extract. We’re extremely lucky to work alongside pastry chef Carla while cooking our jam at Chestnut (her and her husband also run the delightful Mama’s Food Shop on the [...]

Recipe for Anarchy in a Jar's Strawberry Jam

Our strawberry jam tastes like pure strawberries because we use fresh picked berries and instead of commercial pectin, we use “Pomona’s Universal Pectin“. Pomona’s is an all natural pectin that doesn’t require sugar to jell, so jams and jellies can be made with less, little, or no sugar (stevia, honey, etc can be used as [...]