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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 20/3/2021: three Mercado Central vignettes
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:02:53 +0000
References: <E5078F4E-AF41-4388-AD42-85610D516C51@frozenlight.eu> <CAH1UNJ3BdZkUCCfH9-b7qm_MVaK9JUQ23DR-Eb8ekvXrb8x1pg@mail.gmail.com>

I agree, but maybe it's tasty. Here's something to try 
https://www.mzansistylecuisine.co.za/sheeps-head-gugulethu-style/

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On 22/03/2021 06:25, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> The last one is grotesque, to say the least!
> Cheers
> Jayanand
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> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:31 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
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>> Going to the Mercado Central here in Alicante used to be one of my
>> customary Saturday morning pleasures, often more to look than to buy.
>> During the pandemic I have been going much less often; the layout of the
>> market is such that keeping the 2 meters distance is virtually impossible,
>> and I found it a generally unpleasant experience in the circumstances. But
>> now that I have had the Covid myself, I am less concerned for my own
>> safety, and also I have to say that compliance with the sanitary measures
>> (masks, hand cleaning etc.) is quite exemplary. So on Saturday I walked
>> around the Mercado a bit. I was pleased to see that some of the posts that
>> had gone out of business last time I was there in the autumn have now
>> reopened under new management. The character of the market is slowly
>> changing; there are now several small bars and caf?s like in the Boquer?a
>> in Barcelona, something that did not exist at all a year ago. There are
>> also a couple of new higher-end shops, such as one selling good coffee 
>> from
>> around the world (I have never had Cuban coffee!), and one selling 
>> products
>> from Germany, where I bought some excellent bratwurst from
>> Baden-W?rtemberg. As always, much of the pleasure is to photograph the 
>> more
>> traditional part of the food. I choose B&W for these 3 images, just 
>> because
>> I felt like it.
>>
>> Seafood counter:
>> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-H7HfDFn/A
>>
>> More seafood?that pulpo looks really good:
>> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-RvcQ6dW/A
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>> Not for the squeamish, goat or sheep heads (I think the latter, but I am
>> no expert on such things):
>> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-8zRSC5G/A
>> (I also had no idea what people do with these, but obviously there must be
>> a demand for them since they being sold).
>>
>> After all this, I cooked a vegan dinner last night, a Japanese aubergine
>> curry.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>>
>> Alicante, Spain
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