TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: #California - Purple Carrots, Black Radishes, Multi-colored Cauliflower at the Santa Monica Farmers Market

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

#California - Purple Carrots, Black Radishes, Multi-colored Cauliflower at the Santa Monica Farmers Market

I visited the Santa Monica Farmers Market and saw for the first time purple carrots, black radishes, and multicolored cauliflower.

I was looking for orange-yolked eggs, like the ones I had in France and England. I bought eggs from two vendors. Back home I fried one egg but the yolk did not have that deep rich color.

Maybe I'll have to go back to Europe to find those eggs.

Here are a few pictures taken at the Farmers' Market. That's MP and Milan, guests from India, who had great fun at the market.

Historic Chez Jay Restaurant in Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica City's New Tongva Park

Almost Summer in Santa Monica

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.