A scientist in the kitchen

Where do you shop for your food? Have you been to your local farmers’ market recently? Have you been to some farmers’ markets in your travels? Share them here at To market, to market…

And for those who are joining this event, here’s the catch: I’m giving away the recipe book: Home Chefs of the World (Rice and Rice-based Recipes) in a raffle. This is a compilation of rice and rice-based recipes as cooked in kitchens of the world’s leading rice scientists (I’m still far from being one of them, though…). This book contains over a hundred recipes from 27 countries with rice as the main ingredient or dishes that go well with rice. Get a chance to know the origin of rice, too, and find out why rice is one of the most food crops in the world.

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Lemongrass is one of my favorite herbs and have been using it a lot on soups and roast chicken. I can’t believe I haven’t used it with pork barbecue until I read Katie’s Lemongrass Barbecued Pork recipe. Katie B., of Other People’s Food, is my partner for this month’s Taste and Create event - a brain child of Nichole from For the love of Food.

I used the same ingredients as the marinade but used pork belly instead of boneless pork loin. And instead of lime juice, I used kalamansi, the Philippine version of lime. The family is more partial to pork belly and we love to eat grilled pork belly every week. I love the aroma of lemongrass on the barbecue with each bite I took. I know I must do this again.

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It’s either summer, autumn or spring in any part of the world. For some who lives in the tropics where there is an abundance of produce all year-round and where the variety is not at the mercy of winter, I came to this realization when I organized the first To market, to market event. Not everyone can join since their farmers’ markets are not available come winter time. So I’ve decided to make this into a regular event where we can share how our markets look like. Or during our travels, we might have come across these markets that are so different from or own but nevertheless as fascinating and as varied.

Here’s how to join:

1. 1. Blog about the local market where you buy your food. Include a picture of the place (e.g. your favorite stall, a local delicacy, a seasonal produce). Talk about the sights and sounds. You can also blog about a market you have come across in your travels. It may be an organized one with its own building, a street market or any out of the way place where locals put up their produce.

2. Only one entry per blog.

3. Blog posts not included in the previous round-up are also welcome.

3. The post should include a link to this announcement.

4. Once you have written your post, email me at mgccarrillo AT gmail DOT com. Include the following:

* Your Name
* Your hometown/region and country
* Blog name
* Blog URL
* Post title
* Post URL

Please include “To Market, to market” in the subject line so I don’t lose your email.

5. Submit your entries by May 10, 2008 May 31, 2008.

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Cooking is a reflection of our culture, inasmuch as our local markets is a reflection of our cooking. For this first round-up of “To market, to market…”, entries came from the four corners of the world, up North in Canada to down South in Australia, from the West in the US to the East in Malaysia.

North America

Jenn, The Left Over Queen  shows off these Swiss chard (I’m jealous, I haven’t tasted Swiss chard yet) from the farmers’ market in Saint Augustine, Florida.

Australia

Johanna of the Green Gourmet Giraffe fame (how fascinating a blog name can you get?) shares with us a bite of that jam donut she has had since she was a kid which is sold at the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne.

On the other side of Melbourne is the Prahran Market where Cakelaw of Laws of the Kitchen shops for her kitchen needs.

Europe

This Little Piggy Went to the Market and here’s what she got! Pixie of  You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato shows off the Maidstone Market in Kent, UK.

Another market in Birmingham and this where Devi of Devi’s Kitchen shop, the King Norton’s Farmers’ Market.

Nuria with the most delectable Spanish Recipes shares with us the street market in Barcelona, Spain.

Nicole of the For the Love of Food (Think of Taste and Create!) allows as a peak at an open air market in Furth, Germany.

Gizelle of Was zum Kochen und Essen (und sehen) talks about Naschmarkt, Vienna, Austria, the farmers’ market closest to her place in Vienna.

North America

Nilmandra of Soy and Pepper shows us how colorful and fascinating is the Chinese New Year market in Singapore.

Phil Lees of The Last Appetite shows us a glimpse of Kota Bharu’s Central Market in Malaysia. Check out more of his blog for a treasure trove of pictures from Asia.

When Vegeyum of A Lifetime of Cooking visited Siem Reap, Cambodia, her search for true Cambodian food led her to the New Market.

My entry is on the vegetable medley you can get in a typical market in the Philippines as well as some photo entries:  Colorful it purple in Old Quebec, Seattle’s Pike Place Market, and Food from the Rice Terraces.

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Thanks for joining the event. One thing I realized though, is that we live in different parts of the world with different seasons and not everyone has a farmers’ market going on at this time of the year.  Well, then, I’m giving this a second round, with the round-up in early June! Special mention goes to Andy and Sweetnicks for the announcing the events.
 

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Where do you buy meat, vegetables and fish? Where do others buy their meat, vegetables and fish? There’s still time for you to submit your entry to “To marker, to market…” a blog event dedicated to the farmers’ markets around the world.

 Come back next for the round-up and check out the colorful world of farmers’ markets where food bloggers get their inspiration for the next dish.

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