The Meadows Farmers Market a Misnomer. BUT WITH GREAT BREAD

 




Sarasota has a downtown  "Farmers  Market"  every Saturday.  It's hardly your local Farm Market.


It's a place to see and be seen, especially if you have a designer dog.

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Much nearer to my home (two miles away) is the Farmers Market at "The Meadows"  - a community with many small "villages".

Zion and I went there this morning.  What a let down!  There was but one produce stall, with cleaned up and shiny vegies.

I could have bought Magical Crystals, Health Insurance, Lobstee Rolls ( at 1030 a.m?) but no great Bread.

That was until I came across the Italian Woman who bakes bread at her home.



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Such good wheat bread - not for sandwiches or toast; but to be slathered  with butter; to be dipped in the very best olive oil;  or maybe to mop up the sauces left on your plate after dinner.

It's the very best, with a crispy crust and a well flavoured  and textured flesh. 

The baker uses wheat grown from ancient  seeds which have been preserved in Sicily. In this case  Russello


"Russello, Ruscio or Russieddru, is another variety of ancient grains: a durum wheat with a red-coloured ear. Its cultivation is widespread in the Sicilian hinterland.It has got a medium earliness of sowing, late maturation and low productivity. Russello is used to make the hard bread from the Hyblaean Mountains. The bread made from the Sicilian flour produced from this ancient wheat develop a slight herbal aroma."



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There is a good Farmers Market on Sundays in neighbouring Lakewood Ranch.  There you can buy produce "with the dirt still on it!"  A couple of local artisan bakers also sell bread

Sadly the Market moved from the easily accessed Hospital Parking lot to somewhere in deepest darkest LWR.






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