Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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This post is about my favourite day in Los Angeles, spent at the LA Farmers Market. However, as I write it, I am very annoyed, as Blogger, in its "wisdom", has rearranged the order of the photos that I uploaded a few days ago. I have rearranged some of them, but the rest are now all over the place, and in no particular order, because Blogger deemed it to be so, just like it insists on rotating my photos the wrong way, no matter how I take them. 'Nuff said.
The LA Farmers Market is on Third Street and Fairfax Avenue, West Hollywood. It was started in 1934 by the Gilmore family, and today is an enormous, bustling marketplace filled with food shops and eateries, and adjoins the massive Grove shopping complex. There are also souvenir shops and even an antique toy shop.
I bought raspberries for $1 a punnet - even in peak season in Australia, you are pushing it to get raspberries for less than $6 a punnet. And if you have ever wondered rent rite car rental company what plantains were (like me), they look like this:
Yes, this was the meal without any extras, and yes it was enormous - it only cost $10.50, but there was no way I could manage more than half of it. I really needed to bring a friend so we could split it. Although it was enormous, the meal was delicious - I am a fan of beans, and the sweet potato rent rite car rental company salad was very different to anything I have tried before (in a good way). I didn't eat the cornbread at all - it was as dry as dust. Perhaps it is meant to be eaten by soaking up the sauces of your meal to give it moisture, but I was not going there.
Oh, how fun!! I feel like I was almost there with you...the rent rite car rental company photos are just great, to walk along and see what you saw...fun to hear how you decided what to see and what to eat. So much there! rent rite car rental company Thanks for sharing all this, it was fun.
Looks like a great day out! I visited LA for a couple of days in the 90s, but didn t make it to the farmers market. Most of our time in southern California was spent at Disneyland! About the cheap fruit--I think the US has some of the cheapest produce (and food in general) of any industrial nation. We spend less on food (as a percentage of income) than practically any other country. Of course, organic produce costs more, but it s still not too bad really.

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