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The Market:
Venice Farmers Market
Venice Blvd. at Venice Way
7 to 11 a.m.
Market-Goer:
Mark Thompson, publisher of this Web site
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What I Bought:
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Assorted
Stone Fruit The flattened peaches in the
foreground of the photograph above are known variously as
Saturn or Donut peaches. They are white-fleshed and
meaty and very good. The other fruits pictured above
include Flavor Queen and Dapple Dandy pluots and a
Satsuma plum.
Price: $2/lb
$2.50/lb. for donut peaches
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Chinese
eggplant,
okra, Italian sweet peppers Since
I'm still overwhelmed with tomatoes from my backyard
garden, I pass up the tomatoes that fill the market
today and look for other hot-season vegetable
favorites, like these..
Price: $2/lb.
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Basil,
Chinese and Japanese eggplant
Price: $1/bunch for basil
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Grapes
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