Today I was at the divine farmer’s market, known as Sant’ Ambrogio, before the sun came up.  I snapped a bunch of photos as the merchants were setting up their offerings for the day.  Yowsa!  What a market!  Che mercato, per favore! My Italian lessons are starting to kick in.

It won’t be hard to follow your mother’s command to eat your vegetables with this amazing collection of offerings, in December no less.  Can you imagine the September produce?  Mamma mia!

Guardiamo (let’s look)!

Ignore the oranges below because I am planning an entire post on them, so lovely are they and so much do I love to eat citrus. But do check out the Jerusalem artichokes which are plentifully in season adesso (now).

The artichokes are spectacular fare in a local trattoria. Believe me, I have been eating them all week!

Mangiamo!  Let’s eat!