September is perhaps the sweetest month at the market. Summer produce is still coming in, and lettuces that suffered in the heat and drought are freshening up as evenings get cooler. Now the market brims with apples, squashes and plump pumpkins. Last Thursday Silverbrook Farm brought a basket of decorative gourds; they looked harlequinesque, for want of a better word - pear-shaped with big bold white and yellow stripes, with a little green-and-white stripy patch at their base. Our bakers have...
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