One of the amazing sights in Sucre is the Mercado Central -- a huge outdoor/indoor market full of almost every type of fruit and vegetable imaginable, chickens and meats, spices, a whole row of juice bars, eggs, pastas and dried goods, farmer's cheeses, flowers and a whole upper level of food stalls serving prepared foods. Mangos, starfruits, avocados, kiwis that look like they've doubled and tripled themselves, chirimoyas, nuts, strange but delicious fruits that we've never seen before -- like the ones that look like green pods and have a white fruit that surrounds large inner black beans. Dozens of varieties of delicious potatoes, and ladies that called Rebecca "mamacita" when she went to buy things. It made Berkeley Bowl look as sparse as a convenience store produce section.
Rebecca spend an afternoon photographing the market, the food, and women (and man) working there. Here are some her photos:
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I brought some of those tamarind-like green crescent-shaped fruit seeds (shhh! don't tell customs!) and am now trying to grow them. WHAT ARE THEY CALLED? love and will reveal ID later. ;0*
ReplyDeleteThose photos are so beautiful! I want whatever the big round (bread? cheese?) things are. Yum. Are they as good as they look?
ReplyDeleteI have had those long pod-like fruit in Costa Rica and they're great.
I applaud your friend's initiative but having studied invasive plants, critters, fungus, etc. that wipe out native flora and fauna, can't say I approve of sneaking 'em into another country.
I too would like to know what they're called -- can't remember what they called them in CR.