Earth Day Celebration on 4/20/2024 from 12pm-3pm! Come join us at Precycle (Prospect Heights) on 4/20/24 and celebrate all things Earth Day. Precycle is a local shop (Bushwick and Prospect Heights, Brooklyn) who carries City Saucery products and practices Earth Day’s message everyday of the year. Reducing packaging waste is at the core of their philosophy and we think that’s really great. We both believe every customer has the right to know where their food comes from and to be given the choice of reusable instead of disposable packaging. NO WASTE! Full-on transparency is the driving force be ..read more

Tomato seed catalog circa 1920 Did you know that people have feared tomatoes for 600 years? Since it’s Halloween, I think it’s time we understand the maligned history of tomatoes beginning in Europe in the 1500s. Once deemed “flying ointment” for witches broomsticks by actual witch hunters (oh, yes!). Eating raw tomatoes was also believed to turn you into a werewolf (uh, huh). Also, considered poisonous since naturalists in Europe didn’t know a thing about them at the time (yup). Oh, it also didn’t help that there was a witchcraft panic going on in Europe when the mysterious New World fruit ..read more

Roma tomatoes take a hot bath. Despite what food bloggers, Instagram influencers and big box chain stores want you to believe; tomato season is far from over! I mean, WE are the tomato whisperers after all, not Walmart. In the last three weeks alone, we’ve canned and cooked over 5,000 LBS of local tomato varieties: Romas, Yellow plums, tomatillos, cherries, Speckled Romans and green heirlooms. All by hand and with a kitchen operating at about 80% capacity right now since one of our main work-horses (that would be our 35G tilt-skillet braiser) broke down on us recently and our repair person is ..read more

We cooked 1,500 lb of these golden beauties this week Tomato season is still going strong in this part of Brooklyn, folks! We just got over 1,500 lbs. of organic yellow plum tomatoes delivered to the Saucery recently and we’ve been canning and cooking up a storm. It’s a lot of arm work but totally worth it! The variety we used this season is a bit different, but still yummy. It’s plum style like last year’s batch but slightly bigger than 2019’s batch (God, I miss that 2019 batch). When tomatoes are on the larger side, the water content tends to be higher, so cooking time is longer. That sai ..read more

Our Original Ugly Tomato Sauce I’m sure many of you have walked down the pasta sauce aisle of your grocery store without even realizing it. I’m also sure you’ve glanced at a jar or two of the many MANY sauce jars on the shelf. Did you ever stop to take a good look at what these pasta sauce brands are actually up to, though?… … Well, I have and for good reason (hello! we’re a sauce company). More importantly though, to know and really understand who our competition is out there. We have walked down the pasta sauce aisle many times and have read all the sauce jars on the shelf (i.e., ingredien ..read more

This is a question we hear very often, and the answer is: Why not? Grocery stores don’t want tomatoes that are bruised or overripe because of cosmetic reasons. Would you like it better if we called it “upcycled tomato sauce”? I didn’t think so. We handcraft quality sauces and condiments with upcycled tomatoes and help prevent food waste at the same time. Our approach (and technique) is not new at all but very ancient. Cultures have been doing this for centuries. A technique my Italian mother brought to the City Saucery table when we first started our food brand 12 years ago. A technique we sti ..read more

Our seasonal Leafy Greens Sauce is loaded with more fresh kale and chard than ever, making this the most vitamin K packed sauce we produce at the Saucery! All the kale and chard for our first 2022 batch is from Greenmarket’s own Grandpa Farm. We work with these folks a lot since their produce is exceptional in both flavor and color (so much vibrant color!). This sauce is one of our oldest, too. We started producing our ‘tomato sauce with benefits’ in 2014 and we’ve kept at it since because so many of you love it. Our kale of choice is the Curly variety since it is easier to work with and pair ..read more

I hear it all the time as people pass by our Greenmarket stand: your sauces look delicious but I’m trying not to eat pasta. My response will always be the same: then don’t have it with pasta. Tomato sauce is not just for pasta! It’s high time we start thinking outside the pasta box when deciding on how to use our delicious ALL-PURPOSE TOMATO SAUCES. Tomato sauce is a base or a condiment used to enhance many many pasta-less dishes. Our sauces have no added sugars, are 100% vegan, gluten-free, and are lower in sodium all around because we want you to have the freedom to use our sauces howev ..read more

You see and read the same recipes over and over again on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, NY Times and, yes, even Facebook! (I think the current trend is carbonara?) How many carbonara recipes have you seen in the last week? I have seen too many, unfortunately. Of course, you have your different interpretations of carbonara sauce out there which range from 100% vegan to 1,000% classical (at times puritanical). I’m not ragging on carbonara (or its many many interpretations), but I am pointing out something that’s a bit of a pet peeve of mine: recipes over technique. If you don’t have a technique, yo ..read more

The Saucery’s Brooklyn HQ Many “pasta sauces” out there on market shelves are attached to a restaurant. Ever notice that? It’s probably why 99.9% of them jar the same recipes over and over and over again! They’re not really interested in the actual recipe or quality per se more than they are in promoting their own agenda. I get it from a marketing perspective but why only pasta sauce? Why not wine? Mustard? Hot sauce, even? Have pasta sauces become a cheap formula for restaurant owners to use as a vehicle for promotion? Sure does look that way to me. After all, I do make sauce for a living so ..read more