California Ave Farmers Market in Palo Alto, CA
Weekend farmers market in Palo Alto
Quick summary: Free samples of food everywhere, kittens to adopt, best naan (Indian pancake) I've ever had, live music, cloudless skies.
I'm a sucker for good fruit and the samples of apricots, peaches (5 diff kinds!), blueberries, strawberries, grapes, pluots (plum/apricot hybrid) might just be enough to convince me to start buying organic. I usually feel lucky as hell when I pick up fruits at the supermarket that are as sweet as those (and I'm not a shabby fruit-picker), but the amazing thing was that every single sample was just as sweet as the next, even between different vendors! Might just be worth the extra cost to get fruit that good all the time.
After walking around for two hours, I finally settled on Indian food - lamb curry and 3 pieces of naan for 10 bucks. So filling. While waiting in line (the longest line in the whole market), I got to see the naan being made inside a coal oven. It reminds me of Jewish latkes but healthier and not greasy. Also picked up some freshly squeezed OJ to wash down a nice big lunch at a picnic table nearby.
Kittens? Kitten farmers? Letting people adopt pets in an alleyway next to a farmers market? There's gotta be some kind of crime being committed there...
