To Market, To Market is a new book that tells the story of a boy accompanying his mother to shop for honey, kale, cheese and other foods often sold at farmers’ markets – and then recounts how each is grown or made. This Thursday Eight Cousins bookstore promises to bring this distinctive children’s book and its author, Nikki McClure, to our market’s spot at Peg Noonan Park for a reading and book-signing (from 11 a.m. or so to 12.30, as the market sets up for its usual noon business.) T...
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It’s pea season. Shelling peas, sugar snaps, and snow peas appeared at the market last week--oh happy day for those of us who like to eat our peas. Even English shell peas were so sweet, so tender, we popped the pods and gobbled the peas inside raw.

This week we’re cooking…peas! Though, in truth, fresh peas hardly need cooking. Sugar snaps, if you can resist eating them raw, need only stringing and a quick dunk in a large pan of rapidly boiling, well-salted water until they turn an almos...
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