Where can I buy quark in NYC?

October 28, 2010 1:50 PM

Where can I buy quark (the dairy product) in NYC? Chowhound's suggestions have failed me. Brooklyn/downtown Manhattan locations are preferred.
posted by Viola to Food & Drink (17 answers total)

Union Square farmers market! Hawthorn Farms Dairy has quark but get there early.
posted by Siena at 1:52 PM on October 28, 2010

Whole Foods does not have it? I would have thought that they would.
posted by Danf at 1:53 PM on October 28, 2010

This chowhound thread is way out-of-date, but may give you some leads. I know they carry it at Whole Foods in the Boston-area.
posted by pavi at 1:54 PM on October 28, 2010

Whole Foods usually stocks it next to the mascarpone (pre-packaged cheese cooler; it comes in tubs like spreadable cream cheese). I've seen it in Atlanta, Boston, and Las Vegas WFs, so I assume it's nationally stocked.
posted by catlet at 1:55 PM on October 28, 2010

Sorry link didn't show up on previous post - http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/213119
posted by pavi at 1:55 PM on October 28, 2010

I will check Westside Market on the way home, because I am awesome.
posted by elizardbits at 1:55 PM on October 28, 2010

Murray's Cheese maybe? There's one on Bleecker and one in the GCT food concourse. Westside Market is a good bet, as would be the Garden of Eden (I'm thinking of the one on 14th).
posted by Admiral Haddock at 1:57 PM on October 28, 2010

I will check Amish Market on the way home, because I am awesome.
posted by CunningLinguist at 2:00 PM on October 28, 2010

Pretty sure I've seen it at Dean & Deluca in Soho and I bet they have it at Murray's Cheese on Bleecker. Either would tell if they have it you if you called them.

On the other hand I could swear I've seen it at Whole Foods, too.
posted by yarrow at 2:04 PM on October 28, 2010

It's the same as fromage blanc battu, n'est-ce pas?
posted by TWinbrook8 at 2:27 PM on October 28, 2010

Quark and fromage blanc are not exactly the same, no.

I would be surprised if they didn't have it (or couldn't order it for you) at the Co-Op in Park Slope?
posted by Sidhedevil at 2:35 PM on October 28, 2010

I've definitely seen it at the Chelsea Whole Foods before. I've also seen it at Sahadi's on Atlantic Avenue.

If I have my cheese terminology correct, quark is just a fresh, spreadable cow's milk cheese, not unlike farmer's cheese, no? That is very easy to make in about half an hour in any kitchen that comes equipped with a stove.
posted by Sara C. at 2:37 PM on October 28, 2010

Westside Market (14th & 7th) has something kind of similar in the first cheese display on the left when you walk in the front door. It's a French fresh cheese with a cow on the packaging just like the speisequark and is on the bottom of the display just below the appallingly delicious-looking mozzarella balls in plastic tubs.
posted by elizardbits at 2:39 PM on October 28, 2010

You can also make it yourself. It's very easy.
posted by jedicus at 2:57 PM on October 28, 2010

I know I've seen it at the Union Square farmer's market, and I'm pretty sure Fairway carries it too.

It's sad how hard to find this stuff is in the US, isn't it?
posted by the_blizz at 3:03 PM on October 28, 2010

I also came in to suggest making it yourself. If you need a lot, then this recipe has worked quite well for me. (though I use a water bath instead of the oven)
posted by kjs4 at 4:32 PM on October 28, 2010

I had this problem a few years ago when I had German friends in the US trying to make us a tradition German christmas dinner. Another German who had been living in the US for over 30 years referred us to the section of the grocery store that sold "ethnic foods" like stuff for tamales and other traditional Mexican dishes. There was certain kind of cream, I forget what it was called in Spanish, but the translation was something like "Farmer's cream".

The German guests tried it and verified it was the same as quark.
posted by chillmost at 3:32 AM on October 29, 2010