AUTHOR: Linn Woodard TITLE: Fresh, Local, Farmers Market Produce Deliciousness DATE: 7/01/2008 02:03:00 PM ----- BODY:
Friday's loot.
Fresh, local, amazingly good produce.  That's what I'm finding these days at our farmers market. Do you recall the first day I tried out the farmers market as our regular place for weekly produce? Well, now I'm an old pro. A regular, as one of the vendors put it last Friday. And doesn't everyone love being a 'regular' somewhere? I'm happy to find such deliciousness at my 'regular' place!
It's been several weeks now, and I'm to the point where I just can't pick up produce at my regular market anymore. It seems so strange to me to be eating tomatoes flown in from who-knows-where, when the most delicious tomatoes are being grown within miles of my house! I love walking through the two aisles at our farmers market with the boys, salivating over the freshest fruits, and Tyler becoming covered with the juice of whatever sample he's found.
Okay, so I know I'm spoiled, produce-wise, by living here in southern California. Yes, you can find most anything locally and there's always something fresh, even in the middle of what others call winter. I wouldn't have really thought much about it until recently when I've started thinking about where our family's food comes from.  And I'm not really sure what kinds of foods are grown around here in December (I'm such a city slicker, as my parents would call it,) but for now, the farmer's market is the best place to be for cherries, carrots, strawberries, just about everything.
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