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Call me a food geek but I really enjoy visiting local farmers markets when I’m on holiday. It feel I am getting to know a place when I see what types of produce are grown and made nearby. It’s also fascinating to see what rules the market goes by. Some markets are citified foodie destinations [...]
San Francisco; March 2010 The setting was the Saturday farmers’ market at the San Francisco Ferry Building in early spring. The sun was shining and the stalls were selling asparagus, strawberries and spring flowers – branches of pink blossoms and bunches of fragrant narcissus. Around the corner by the water, I saw these buskers – [...]
San Francisco; February 2010 This is a statue of Indian statesman Mahatma Gandhi behind the San Francisco Ferry Building. From this angle it looks like he is gazing out at the reflected sunset and full moon rising over the Bay Bridge. I took this with my new digital SLR and I’m particularly pleased with the [...]
The latest post in my series on sustainable food in partnership with Chris Perrin of Blog Well Done. It’s time to buy groceries. You are armed with a shopping list, cloth bags and the best of intentions to buy food that is sustainable in every way. But the organic apples in Whole Foods are from [...]
Welcome to the second week of the series on sustainable food that I am writing with Chris Perrin of Blog Well Done. What is sustainable food? Food is what sustains life. For millions of people, this is the primary function of food. If you don’t have enough to eat, you’re not going to turn your [...]
Goroka, Papua New Guinea; September 2007 After yesterday’s post on Borough Market in London, here is a market of a wholly different kind. This is the weekly market in Goroka in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Papua New Guinea is a vast country with a tiny population – just 6.25 million people in an area [...]
Borough Market is one of my all-time favourite places in London. It’s a gourmet food market right near London Bridge and South Bank and a definite must if you come to London and have even the remotest interest in cooking or eating. It’s not exactly a farmers’ market but there are plenty of farmers plying [...]
Lintong, Sumatra, Indonesia; December 2008 We made quite an impact when we visited the local market in Lintong, Sumatra. I wasn’t even with the camera crew but we had children following us and people screaming with laughter when we asked to take a picture. No one gave us any hassle or used the hard sell. [...]
* Lao-Ocean Girl has a review of Star Chef restaurant in Seoul, Korea. It looks mouth-wateringly delicious. * I love the sound of these vanilla-poached quinces from Spittoon Extra. Best of all that the fruit was free! Here in the northern hemisphere it’s definitely the season for cooked fruit desserts – we had baked apples [...]
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