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, [...]

Emma, Anarchy in a Jar Jam Apprentice

Meet Emma Krautheim, the fabulous jam apprentice who has joined Anarchy in a Jar for the summer to learn the art of jammin. She’s a student at Smith College studying Sociology & Urban Studies, she’s super nice and friendly, she’s from the rad state of Minnesota and she’s [...]

My boyfriend, Ben Flanner, is starting an acre farm on a roof in Queens. It’s amazing, innovative, crazy and wonderful. The team at Brooklyn Grange needs money to help get the dirt up there and the plants growing for summer! Check out their video and all the raddness:

Brooklyn Grange will be a 1 [...]

the rad new BK farmacy & soda fountain

cool shelves @ the BK farmacy & soda fountain

bluebell about to shake her spokes on discovery channel

my little sister makes grilled cheese with jam at the market

hawking jam at the lyceum market

Where ya at? We’ve been cruisin around town, shakin’ that jam booty [...]

young anarchy fan eats a pizzella with jam

People often ask what the best jam carrier is, and the answer is, hands-down, pizzelle. I often make them for markets, and might start selling them this summer since people seem to dig them so much.

But what are they? Traditional Italian waffle cookies made from flour, eggs, sugar, butter, and [...]

ramps: foraged, loved, pickled

WARNING: this is a post about pickles, not jam.

I know, I’m a cheater. This is a website about jam and I’m squeezing in a post about pickles. Everyone knows pickles are sexy, masculine, brutish in their flavor as they swivel their savory, salty boldness in the face of the more traditional [...]

lavender baby before it heads to the roof

As springtime bursts into glorious verdure throughout the city and leaves erupt into canopies of vibrant green, we all dream of summer’s bounty and plan to this year, finally, for real, complete that DIY gardening project in our window/fire escape/roof/backyard. Our dreams are collective, as can be [...]

the Lyonsville Sugar House — photo by Carol Lloyd McCarthy

Janine Stockin standing in front of her Lyonsville Sugar House — photo by Carol Lloyd McCarthy

the beautiful finished product

One of Anarchy’s signature flavors is Easy Like Sunday Morning blueberry jam with maple syrup. I get my maple syrup from some lovely [...]

student pours jam into jars — image by Alexander Bitar © 2010

little hotties ready to be capped — image by Alexander Bitar © 2010

perfect pouring by star jam student — image by Alexander Bitar © 2010

i lecture about jamz — image by Alexander Bitar © 2010

we taste some final product: [...]

Aviation Cocktail

You know the beautiful cocktail called an Aviation? If not, you should. It’s delicious, with gin, lemon and creme de violet liqueur. I decided to get a little wild and experiment with pickling fruit, in preparation for summer’s bounty–plus, I’m so bored with winter fruit! And as I thought of pickling the local [...]