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

Menu and Tasting Notes

Ingredients, descriptions and tasting notes

Our jam is artisanal and handmade in Brooklyn, New York.

Almost all our fruit is sourced locally. Our jam, jelly and preserves are “vintage,” made from fruit grown in a particular year and under those unique environmental conditions.

Currently in Stock:

Strawberry Balsamic Jam
3′s Company Triple Berry Jam
Easy Like Sunday Morning Blueberry Preserves
Ginger Pear Jam
Hot Fireman’s Pear Jam
Grapefruit & Smoked Salt Marmalade

Summer Flavors:

small batch, not available year round

Strawberry Preserves with pink peppercorns and chocolate mint
strawberries, chocolate mint, pink peppercorns, sugar, lemon juice, all natural pectin
Sweet pink peppercorns and a variety of mint that tastes like an after-dinner chocolate make it crazy good.

Midnight Morello Preserves
morello black sour cherries, sugar, lemon juice, all natural pectin
Made from low-spray Morello black sour cherries. Gorgeous jewel-toned, dark red color. Sweet cherry aroma finishes with a tart, crisp acidity in good balance.

Apricot Jam
apricots, organic thyme, organic vanilla bean, sweet Torrontes wine, sugar and lemon juice
Delicious New York apricots, organic thyme from Brooklyn Grange rooftop farms in NYC, vanilla bean and a sweet dessert wine made with the Torrontes grape from Argentina.

Rose White Jam
white peaches, yellow peaches, rosewater, sugar, lemon juice, all natural pectin
Made from low spray peaches from the North Fork of Long Island. Long maceration process, a pure peach flavor is balanced by palette pleasing rosewater.

Blueberry Lavender Preserves
blueberries, fresh lavender, lemon juice, sugar, all natural pectin
Lavender adds a floral and spicy note to the blueberries.

Sugar Plum Fairy Preserves
Golden sugar plums, ice wine, lemon juice, sugar, all natural pectin
A delicious mix of local sugar plums and local New York State grown ice wine. Ice wine is a sweet dessert wine made from grapes left on the vine until nearly dry. All the flavors are here and hit your senses in succession: sweet, savory, bitter and tart plum. Close your eyes and eat this with a spoon.

Coming in August:

Fig-alicious Jam
figs, sugar and lemon juice
Pure, perfect fig.

I Eat NY Hot Pepper Jelly
peppers (cherry bomb, banana, jalapeno, thai, sweet), vinegar, sugar, all natural pectin
Hot and sweet peppers from Brooklyn Grange Farm in NYC–this stuff is the bomb. Farmer Ben’s peppers are amazingly flavorful and beautiful, and Laena helped raise some of these babies from seeds she started on her fire escape. Driven from farm to kitchen in our recycled vegetable oil Mercedes, this jelly has a super small carbon footprint. Feel the love. Spicy and sweet, you can put it on anything for an added punch of flavor–we love it on grilled cheese!

Ingredients and Description of Jams

Strawberry Balsamic Jam
organic strawberries, balsamic vinegar, sugar, lemon juice, all natural pectin
Long maceration process finished with a balsamic bite that brings out the sweetness in the fruit–-great with goat cheese!

3′s Company Triple Berry Jam
raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, lemon juice, sugar, all natural pectin
Easy, toast-perfect, with a great mix of sweet and tart. Perfect for those who love pure fruit flavor and an easy eating jam.

Easy Like Sunday Morning Blueberry Preserves
blueberries, maple syrup, sugar, lemon juice, all natural pectin
Wild Maine blueberries meld with a rich B grade maple syrup from Lyonsville Sugarhouse in Accord, New York. Add this to your pancakes and swoon.

Ginger Pear Jam
Bartlett pears, fresh ginger, lemon juice, sugar, all natural pectin
Pears from upstate New York pare perfectly with fresh ginger.

Hot Fireman’s Pear Jam with chipotle and cinnamon
Bartlett pears, cinnamon, chipotle, lemon juice, sugar, all natural pectin
Pears are given a smoky, hot and spicy buzz with the addition of chipotle and cinnamon. This jam smells and looks like late autumn, when the golden earth-toned air is tinged with woodsmoke. Not too spicy, but with a little smoky kick at the end. We donate a portion of the proceeds to our local NYC Fire Department.

Grapefruit & Smoked Salt Marmalade
Grapefruit, smoked salt, sugar
Sweet, slightly bitter with a hit of smoky salt. Ruby red grapefruit juice and slivers of zest float in translucent golden jelly.

More flavors are on their way, so stay tuned…

If you have questions about any of our jams, please ask us: anarchyinajar@gmail.com.