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Market Report
Pasadena, Calif.
Aug. 22, 2009

The Market:
Victory Park Farmers Market
Sierra Madre and Paloma / map
Pasadena, Calif.
Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 
(626) 449-0179


Market-Goer
: Mark Thompson

 


What I Bought:

pineapple, brandywine, red and green zebra tomatoes

Price: $3-3.50/lb.


(left to right) Osborn, yellow kadota, brown turkey and black mission figs

Recipes: Five ways to preserve fresh figs
Recipes for fresh fig cookies, a cake and a tartlet

Price: $4/lb.


an assortment of eggplant varieties

Recipes: Seven eggplant recipes from around the world

Price: $1.50-2/lb.


okra, purple tomatillos and basil

Price: $1/bunch of basil
$3/lb. for okra
$2/lb. for tomatillos


an assortment of peaches, nectarines, plums and pluots

Price: $2/lb.


white cap, cranberry and coco robaca beans

Price: $2/lb.


(right to left) sweet Anaheim, yellow and red bell peppers, passillo chili
Price: $1.50/lb.


(top, left to right) Asian pears, jujubes, Hass avacadoes
(right, left to right) red flame and concord grapes 

Price: $1.50 for four avocadoes
$2/lb. for Asian pears, jujubes and grapes

 


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