[Leica] Nathan's PAD 20/3/2021: three Mercado Central vignettes

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

The last one is grotesque, to say the least!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:31 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> 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 cafés like in the Boquería
> 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-Würtemberg. 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
>
> 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
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> Alicante, Spain
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