Farmers Market

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Markets In The Modern Era

If you believe that traditional markets with exotic touch could only be found in a less-developed country, I’m afraid that you might be wrong. Even a modern city in this developed era has its own market with its own exoticisim.

Close to the Alpen Mountains, Munich, in Germany, also has an exotic market called Viktualienmarkt. If you happen to visit this market you can feast your eyes on pyramids of the big, white radishes Munchners love sliced and layered on top of buttered, chivesprinkled bread; mounds of cabbages and stout leeks for hefty soups; honey in hive-shaped vats; barrels of sauerkraut; craggy crisp-crusted Bauernbrot; shops filled with meats and game. Do also stop for a hot wurst and a Munich Weissbier, a pale brew sparked with a dash of lemon. If something different is what you are looking for, it is recommend that you join market workers for a lusty breakfast of boiled beef at Beim Sedlmayer (Monday-Friday 7 AM-8 PM; Saturday 7 AM-2 PM).

If you are looking for a true farmer’s market and want to know the hometown favorite in the big-apple, the address is New York’s Union Square Greenmarket. For many city dwellers, the fruit, vegetables, and flowers sold here provide a sense of season. Rhubarb, chervil, and lacy salad greens herald spring, soon followed by strawberries, new peas, and peonies. Midsummer is marked by corn, tomatoes, peppers of many colors, zinnias, and roses. Tastings, book signings, and performances by street musicians add to the festive hubbub. Visit Broadway at E. 17^th Street on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 8 AM-6 PM.

Mercato Della Vucciria in Palermo, Italy, grants you the passionate shouting, promising, and bargaining make shopping as entertaining as it is practical. Here there is a giant, roseate octopus, there a trophy-size head of a swordfish and tuna as blood-red as beef. Sides of lamb and goat are split and hung to show organs in situ, and olives glint like polished stones. Piles of eggplant, tomatoes, and peppers, next to trays of salt-dried capers and bottles of golden olive oil, will put you in the mood for caponata. For lunch, try a focaccia stuffed with innards and a gelato in brioche, the world’s most remarkably lush ice cream sandwich. The market heads south from Chiesa di San Domenico, from Monday to Saturday 6 AM-6 PM.

If you’re in Tokyo, don’t forget to visit Tsukiji Fish Market. This staggering warehouse sprawl rises from the mists on the edge of Sumidagawa River. Heaped with stacks of just about everything that swims, it is a whirlwind of activity. Most spectacular is the tuna hall, where fresh and frozen specimens are lined up like fighter planes on an airfield. There in different hall you’ll be able to find live shellfish, kept in vats of bubbling water. Your early morning appetite can be satisfied with some of the city’s freshest, cheapest, and simplest sushi. For your information, this market opens from Monday to Saturday between 5 AM-6 PM.

Finally, visit Dupleix Marches Volants when you come to Paris. This is caravans of itinerant markets that set up weekly in different neighborhoods. Vendors arrive far before sunrises to errect their tables and tents, and depart shortly after lunch. In between, they display a dazzling array of all the foods France is famous for, including meats, woodlands of wild mushrooms, and dieter’s nightmare of tarts and breads.

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