To Market, To Market

Sunday’s farmers’ market included more riches for all the senses and stimulus for the imagination:

• woolen slippers in muted (mulled) colors
• kittens for adoption finding their children
• porchetta sandwiches charred on a grill
• an orange zest scone wrapped in paper
• tender lettuces bundled into a wooden crate
• the year’s last tomatoes and seedy peppers
• little tart apples, some gnarled in interesting ways
• olallieberry jam to stir into oatmeal
• wild sole to pan fry for tomorrow night’s supper
• mole negro tamales from the Oaxacan Kitchen
• the smell of curry, and of spit-roasting chickens
• chocolates, olive oils, cheeses
• the art supply store, brushes and easels

image:  Christie B. Cochrell, Peppers, Alcudia Sunday Market