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Knowing Your Market
Appears in
Published 1997
When I have visitors whom I take to see Rialto, I know in advance that some will remark on how lucky I am and what would I ever do without such a market. I would do as I have always done and as I still continue to do when I am cooking away from Venice. I’d shop carefully, wherever I happened to be.
An encouraging development in America is the appearance of farmers’ markets in cities and the proliferation of farmstands near agricultural communities offering vegetables and fruit that are local, nostrani. Some of the produce I have bought at such markets and farm-stands, although limited in variety, need not envy—and sometimes may even surpass—the freshness and flavor of what I can get at Rialto.