FruitSlinger: Scenes from a Chicago Farmer's Market

Saturday July 11, 2009

"Yesterday I had a long discussion about raspberries with a frequent customer. She had plans to make jam, but wasn't in love with the raspberries.

'They're still too tart,' she said.

'But don't you want tartness in your jam berries?' I shot back. 'You're going to be burying them in sugar. Don't you want something that will stand up to that? Something that will be a little bright after all that sugar?'

She bought six pints of raspberries."

-- Daniel Shumski, from his Chicago-based blog Fruit Slinger, aka the blog where you'll want to eat the photos while you savor the words. It's a city cyber-connection to Mother Earth, and I find it irresistible. You can also follow him on Twitter: @FruitSlinger.