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The Market:
Union
Square Greenmarket
17th Street and Broadway
New York City
Mon., Wed., Fri., and Sat.
8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Market-Goer: Mark
Thompson
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New York City was still noticeably
buzzing with excitement today after yesterday's election
victory by the city's clear favorite candidate for U.S.
president, Barack Obama.
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But the mood wasn't dampened by the
light rain that began to fall in late afternoon. The
market was quite full, with some last-of-
fast-fading-summer crops, such as tomatoes and
eggplants, sharing space with lots of apples, winter
squash, potatoes and other cold-weather crops. |
produce from the market
photographed on the
Delware & Raritan canal, near Princeton, N.J.
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What I Bought:
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Brussel
sprouts, butternut squash, turnips
Price: $3/stalk of brussel
sprouts
$4/lb. loose brussel sprouts
$.80/lb. butternut squash
$1/lb. turnips
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(left
to right) Ruby Crescent, purple Peruvian and La
Ratte potatoes,
Jerusalem artichokes
Price: $3/lb.
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Rome
apple, quince, black twig apple
Price: $2/lb. Rome apple
$3/lb. quince and black twig apple
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eggplants There
were still piles of Jersey tomatoes in the
market today, and also some end-of-the-season
eggplant. There have been some light freezes
in recent weeks in the farming regions
surrounding New York City, but it's seemed
like a warm fall to me, a recently transported
southern Californian. I'm still eating my own
home-grown tomatoes from my backyard garden in
Rocky Hills, N.J., which I picked green
several weeks ago and have ripened on the
kitchen windowsill. So I'm not surprised to
see a few summer crops still hanging on in the
market, like these eggplants.
Price: $1.60/lb.
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