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Skriven 2006-05-02 18:16:54 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
    Kommentar till text 985 av JOAN MACDIARMID (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: Strange Eats
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*** Quoting JOAN MACDIARMID from a message to CAROL SHENKENBERGER ***

JM>  My area, a 2-county one including Buffalo and Niagara Falls, has seve
JM>  farmers markets spread out strategically, and some central organizati
JM>  seems to be assigning locations to the vendors so each location has g
JM>  variety. So when my sausage-maker I got wonderful Hungarian smoked sa
JM>  from retired, another sausage-maker showed up. I don't buy from him,
JM>  I remember we used to have 2 cheese vendors, but one disappeared, pro
JM>  to another market. Besides a variety of truck farmers and orchards, a
JM>  a few vendors who just buy wholesale to vend from the truck (those ba
JM>  are NOT local to Buffalo!) we have the cheese lady, the sausage guy,
JM>  vendor of bulk spices and baked goods, usually one or two bakeries (o
JM>  is Mennonite), a lady who hand-makes pet treats, a honey products guy
JM>  sometimes some craft vendors, and often some snack vendors selling st
JM>  kettle corn and fresh pork rinds. Hmm, we now have a coffee-bean vend
JM>  Always one flower vendor, and in the spring lots of the truck farms o
JM>  flowers for transplanting, too. Things are starting to pop now! One f
JM>  I appreciate here is that this outdoor market is open all year! The p
JM>  are slim in midwinter, but some farms still send a truck over in frig
JM>  winter to offer apples, cabbages, potatoes, fresh-pressed cider, squa
JM>  until they run out, some baked goods; the cheese lady is almost alway
JM>  the sausage guy and the coffee guys most of the time. You haven't liv
JM>  until you have shopped at -5F for half frozen cider and a block of
JM>  Mozzarella! If I go out there in such conditions and find vendors, I
JM>  honor bound to buy something to justify our respective insanities!

Ah Joan!  That sounds as lovely to me as Tonoo Market!  I leave for sea in a
few hours (we were slightly delayed) but it holds out hope for just as much
fun as my 'new' haunt in Japan.  Yes, done the 'frozen hunt' too here.  Cant
say Japan hits -5F often, but I've been cold enough at the teens!

                                       xxcarol

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