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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