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 Making Workshop: Anarchy in a Jar Demonstration at Beer Table

jam student pours the elixer!

Peak season and you haven’t yet preserved summer’s bounty?  On Monday, August 23rd, we will be getting our jam on at Beer Table.  I’ll demonstrate simple ways to make preserves and offer other ideas for stocking up your larder (plum pickles? hot pepper jelly?). Each attendee will take a jar [...]

Limes for a rainy day

whoa, look at those green hotties!

We’re hoping the new iPhone 4G comes with a scent feature. This post would be much sweeter if you could share in the divine scent that wafts through the kitchen as the limes are cooked into marmalade. Jose, who works alongside us in the kitchen at [...]

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 [...]

La poire tre belle

We were playing with pears in the kitchen very early this morning, and the  jam looked so beautiful as it glowed in the autumn light pouring in through the back door of Chestnut.

We jammed it with fresh ginger, and also cooked up a batch of [...]

You make jam in NYC?

We get this a lot. People scoff and think it’s weird. Most small batch & artisanal jam is made on farms, in France or California, in rural areas with easy access to fresh fruit, or all the above. But NYC is the perfect locale for jam production, just like it’s the perfect place to start [...]