the maestro's view of the world

rambling commentary about living in a college town, enjoying culinary delights, surviving in a red state, and traveling to wonderful places

Monday, July 11, 2005

el mercado

after class today I went to the market and just walked around. it is a huge open-air market without air conditioning (a theme you´ll see a lot in my Merida blog). I saw (and this is not an all-inclusive list): live birds, live chickens, live guinea pigs, live puppies, dead chickens, avocadoes, tomatoes, onions, dried and regular peppers and chiles, chiote, flowers, marzipan, cilantro, radishes, and of course much more for sale.

1 Comments:

  • At 5:08 PM, Blogger Unknown said…

    sounds like a ton of fun. I spent today on Devon Ave on the north side of Chicago gathering ingredients for a couscous - the couscous itself, a halal leg of lamb at a marvelous pakistan butcher, some ras el hanout, and harissa.

    I adore open markets. The more live livestock, the better!

     

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