28 May, 2006
A good holiday means that every breakfast feels like a Sunday breakfast. You aren’t constantly on the run, you aren’t harried and flustered. Or at least you aren’t most of the time. A party of 3, which includes a 10 year old just on the cusp of her growth spurt and…
27 May, 2006
Trolling the seafood section of a non-tropical market is always filled with discovery and surprise. Frankly, I have always felt that “cold countries†eat fish fillets and that’s about it. It’s an unfair view and I know it. I guess too many fish and chips tales and TV and movie stereotypes…
26 May, 2006
Part of the rationale for renting an apartment in Barcelona was to save over 50% on exhorbitant hotel rates (say USD450 for a triple in the neighborhood we wanted) and to be able to take advantage of food from the nearby market. Of course no one wants to cook constantly during a busy…
26 May, 2006
What was particularly impressive about La Boqueria besides the tremendous variety and quality of produce and foodstuff that you would generally see in any good market around the world, was the abundance of all the unusual or special stuff that is common to local cuisine or that gourmands generally view to be among…
25 May, 2006
The Mercat San Josep or better known as “La Boqueria” in Barcelona was absolutely fantastic! Located on La Rambla (or Las Ramblas or Les Rambles, confused folk those Catalans…) in the Raval District (next to the gothic District), it has certainly earned a place in my list of “Top 3″ favorite markets around…
25 May, 2006
Barcelona, Florence and Rome, here we come! A quick post on mode of transport while in Europe. After the butt-numbing 13 hour flight on KLM to Amsterdam…the thought of more airtime really weighed heavily on our psyche. So here is the dreamy Marketman post on how to get around the continent…
23 May, 2006
Holland is one of the top three exporters of agricultural products in the WORLD. They export shipload after shipload of bulbs to the U.S., Germany and Japan that are then grown and the cut flowers and plants sold in those markets. Doing some quick research yielded this incredible factoid…that Holland exports 540 million…
23 May, 2006
A recurring theme in the posts of our recent European trip will be food, markets, art/museums, events, ice cream and perhaps a little shopping… In Amsterdam, we made it to the Van Gogh Museum on Paulus Potterstraat which we thought our daughter would appreciate a bit more than the heavier “stuff†at the Rijksmuseum…