Friday, October 14, 2011

Market Report October 14, 2011, Kyiv

Back in Kyiv and time for another market report.  It was a chilly, windy, sometimes rainy day,  but friendly market vendors made for a great visit.  Here's a bit of what Caleb Zigas and I saw today.
 Outside, a small selection from a single village garden.  Squash, dill, horseradish, and yellow berries whose name I haven't figured out yet.  Readers, your guesses?
 Caleb getting his first taste of Ukrainian pickled things, including pickled dates (smoky, sort of, but surprisingly good).

Nuts, with accompanying squirrel.
 What I think of as winter market staples here:  beets, potatoes, onions, carrots.
Melons,  both a canteloupe sort of one, but elongated, and watermelons, the ones found outside on street corners in metal cages in the summer.

 Two great looking market ladies, working outside.
 
And seafood--above, from one of the street side vendors,  crayfish,  live in a crate, and below, fish in their baby bathtubs.  More market reports to come over the next two weeks.

2 comments:

  1. pickled dates, you say? hmm...

    some of the nuts (filberts) look like they have already been run over by a car. ;-)

    I-)

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  2. As far as I know it would be sea-buckthorn berries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-buckthorn

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