> Did a double-take when I saw this label. Most of the geeky computer people I worked with lived off pizza, Big Macs, Coke (also non-capitalised….) and coffee. Didn’t really…
> There are the Wagnerian Brünnhilde and Sieglinde (now adopted as the name of a strain of spud) and Siegmund (Victory Mouth) and Siegfried (Victory Peace). Urmgard is one you’ll…
> …..comes around. It’s asparagus time again. A bit early for me – I’ll wait until the unforced stuff comes on the market and then we’ll pick it up…
> …that purple is THE fashion colour of the coming season. Even for accessoires such as potatoes…
> Satisfied Caffee Moguntia customer waiting for the caffeine rush to kick in. And txting/smsing/twittering/facebooking his mates with the profound news that he’s just knocked off a latte machiato and…
> The guy at the Kaiser organic bakery stand on the market spun what sounded like a pretty tall tale yesterday. “Essener bread has nothing to do with Essen (Ed:…
> …big city medium-sized market town. We are a state capital, mind you. Seen on the Christmas market. Mexican, I think. Quality cocaine they had, too…
> Quince jelly at the market
> I always though “olive green” was like …..greener? Signora Anna on the market told me how to preserve olives. First, whack your olive with a hammerNext, put it in…
> Poultry stand lady at the market is a dab hand at transferring eggs from a big tray to the standard 10 egg box. 2 at a time. Almost robotic.…
> when sweetheart cabbages, leeks and celeriac start crowding out raspberries, blackberries and nectarines…
> I’m sure that there’s a booming industry, supplying the local poultry farmers with polyester feathers and fake chicken faeces. And a service industry paying people a pittance for gluing…
> You can do 2 things. You can go to one of the ubiquitous bakery chains and buy a roll with the consistency of cirro-cumulus enveloping a slice of plastic…
> Minding my own business on the way to the market the other day when the water normally issuing from the fountain miraculously parted in front of me.. Stopped. Took…
> Open Air Market. Thanks a bunch. Of the 20,000+ digital images I’ve got stored on iPhoto, in excess of 19,500 (I think..)are of the market in Mainz. Lazy as…
> Samira runs the wonderful everything-Italian-with-some-French-stuff-thrown-in-for-good-measure stand on the market, with a little help (Saturdays only) from Alessandro, a waiter we know from our local Italian restaurant. Asked Samira if…
> …stands for échalote. Or expensive bloody onions. This lot will put you back €6 a kilo. Worth it though….
> Not the worst time of year. Raspberries, redcurants, blackcurrants and blueberries on the market at the moment. Thank goodness the strawberry season’s finished. I can go back to bananas…
> Not sure who was having more fun – us at Caffea Moguntia or these 2 having a glass of wine on the market the other day. Thinks: Them, probably…)
> There are 3 4 ways of making Grüner Sosse, the salsa verde Buy it at the delicatessen (Not really…) Grow and make it yourself (Obviously) Buy the herbs nicely…
> Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Eric, for the correct spelling of “colour”….. Trivial Pursuit claims that the colour combination with the highest contrast (apart from black and white)…
> “Quite rightly” would say Donovan Leitch. Multicoloured Achillea millefolium blossoms (Common Yarrow or Schafgabe to you….) on the market. I was convinced that they put the stems in different…
> Signora Anna on the market has real veggies. And organic lemons that a supermarket chain would reject for “not being perfect” She also has the only zucchini blossoms on…
> ..Texas Mainz. Phenomenal ravioli at the excellent cheese/excellent ham/excellent pasta/excellent everything stand on the market. These are filled with ricotta and either basil, rocket or cep mushrooms. Simmer in…
> …that time of year. Season runs until St John’s Day – 24 June
> …and carry a big stick push a Zimmer frame. On the market. This’ll be me in a couple of years….
> OK, REALLY serious stuff is when you grow your plants from seed, but this is pretty close. Cabbage plants, lettuces, celery as far as the eye can see.
> Alles in Ordnung on the market in Mainz. Someone else appears to be responsible for enforcing litter laws, though…
> …. something beginning with “R” RucolaRocketRauke (Aragula, too, but that’s only in flasher restaurants and then it costs twice as much. Same thing, though). The producers are holding their…
> Crikey, was this tourist guide chappy spinning some yarns! Talk about inventive! And they BELIEVED him too! I was about to leap in and put him straight, but other…
> Tends not to get the feminine hormones in quite such an uproar as the white stuff….
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