market day
I got to the market today despite not being as convalesced as I’d hoped. Despite it being the height of winter, Spring ingredients are already appearing. I bought a bag of baby artichokes, for instance. Winter potatoes are still around, but in much more limited varieties.
It’s a very strange year. I’m using my market visits to remind myself that cooking changes with the seaon and that climate plays a terribly important part in historical cooking. I know I’ve said it before, but this one is worth saying over and over.
This is as true for indigenous foodstuffs as well as European and American origin ones. The weather has always affected what the land can grow and when it can produce. This is one reason why the earliest European settlers in Australia were heavily dependent on their imported bags of flour and etc.: they had to learn the land and climate before they could work its seasons.
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