The lovely people from the Baking Emporium in Dunmanway are usually at the Farmer’s market. They do a fantastic range of bread, much of it in the German tradition.

If you go into the English Market in Cork City there is at least one fabulous craft bakery there.

Farmer’s Market here should be in full swing during the summer. Hope you enjoy when you get here.

One poor kid tried to double-dip his tortilla chip in the smoked salsa sample and the lady on the stall grabbed his hand before he got a chance.

I assume they have to be that way to make sure they give no excuses to EU rule-drones to ban them.

Unfortunately, too, our local stentorian regs prevent most people from serving foods at our markets. Not even tasters. One lad–who even had the commercial kitchen behind his product–was raided and all his teryiaki sauce poured out because he wasn’t federally inspected. Welcome to America–land of the free, home of the brave, realm of the small minded and gastronomically minded simpleton.

And thanks for the Raw Milk link thingy. I’m downloading that show now. I am an active advocate for the choice to have raw milk. I live in a fortunate State, but perhaps not for long. Stupid farmers doing stupid things keep giving Raw Milk a worse name. I am thankful that for the moment I live near a raw milk dairy–the only one fully licensed in the state, and the only one the inspectors leave alone. They haven’t had a problem with bad milk–ever. That it’s run by Benedictine nuns with a direct line to the Milk Master probably doesn’t hurt. . . .but where else can you get great tasting raw milk from doe eyed Jerseys hand milked by virgins???

The photos aren’t so bad by the by. It’s hard to concentraite while drooling. . . .