Haymarket

I don't know why it was so unusually hot today. Lately it has been turning cool but today was definitely a throwback to high summer. So this morning I decided to wander down to Haymarket, boston's biggest and possibly cheapest one.

Haymarket definitely reminded me of the dayak sunday market in Kuching, where all the wares were laid out in the open...with some differences. For one thing rich americans can afford to have a wooden stall complete with shade rather than simply putting everything on blankets. For another the vegetables were beautifully displayed in boxes.. and beautiful vegetables they were too. Granted you weren't for the most part allowed to pick your own (they get it for you), or test the veges (no poking... they bruise the veges) but for the most part they were beautiful. Large red tomatoes of all kinds selling at 3 lbs for a dollar. Fruits, vegetables and spices. Another of a differences between this and the Asian style wet markets was the lack of meats or fish. In a great concession to hygeine the only meats there were were in the stalls that were around the Haymarket area. Actual butchers, grocers and such. There was even a cheese stall that I walked by.

The haul from Haymarket today would have been more except my fridge is already overflowing with food. But what I did come back with was - a lb of portabellas for 2.50, a lb of large white mushrooms for 2.00, a lb of jalapenos for 1.00 and 4 clumps of garlic for 1.00. As you can tell, they sell by the pound, ah well America is not kind to singles - not the way Japan is at any rate :-p