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| - What a wonderful farmer's market! You name it, they've got it.
Fresh cheese, fruits, veggies, plants, cheese, meat, pastries, bread, and did i say cheese???
me + 13 of my pals headed to the farmer's market, and with $20 Canadian apiece and an hour ran around the farmer's market to put together the best picnic feast we possibly could. Some of us went a little past the $20 mark (I spent over $20 on 2 giant blocks of pressed cheese curds alone - see review for La fromagerie Hamel), but we came out with one hell of a feast! Polish donuts, cheese curds, fois gras, pates and baguettes, tomatoes, cherries, ground cherries, apricots, peaches, plums, mangos, fortune cookies... if you can think of something that sounds fresh and amazing, we probably purchased and consumed it (we spent the next 3 days grazing on these delicacies).
the real enticing thing about this market is the samples - EVERYWHERE. that things smell fresh, that you can taste the slightly salted cukes and tomatoes, and you can nibble on slices of the perfectly ripe fruits. When I was trying the pressed cheese curds (which I've never had before - only in straight curd-form), the woman slicing it probably gave me another $3 worth of cheese just in enormous samples.
Watch out, Jean Talon - the next time I come to Montreal, you may just find that I've moved in.
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