Sunday, November 4, 2007

Oil & Vegtables

Here you have some pictures of people selling cooking oil of unknown origin. So, this is one item that Mark and I have been buying at a regular grocery store.

For rows and rows, farmers set up their fresh produce. Currently, radishes, eggplant, corn, apples, mushrooms, leeks, lettuce, cabbage ( I have seen cabbage and cauliflower the size of basket balls), carrots, tomatoes, peppers, and cauliflower are the most common items sold at this time. Vegetables sold depend on the season. There are fruit that seem to be always available like bananas and oranges. More locally pomegranates and persimmons have been for sale.
I wondered what the difference is between sellers, why does one shopper go to a particular farmer to buy their vegetables? I have closely inspected vegetables displayed by different farmers and must say that there is no "material" difference. So, I believe that over time people buy stuff from the person they have build a relationship with or know. Mark and I have not reached that stage yet, we don't have the tomato guy, or the lettuce woman we exclusively buy from. We buy things from pretty much any farmer if it looks good, and I mean the vegetables not the farmer.
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