The Market Maven loves her food and wine. She is a Southern California native who lives for visiting grocery stores and public markets during her travels. While at home, she enjoys hunting down colorful, unusual, independent grocery stores in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. The summer between her junior and senior years of college, she worked in a Migros grocery store in Geneva, Switzerland, perfecting her French and learning to appreciate the Swiss approach to grocery shopping. One of her all-time favorite markets is in the Amalfi Coast hillside village of Scala, Italy. In this tiny store–the largest in town–the elderly owner graciously endured the Market Maven’s ruthless butchering of the Italian language the entire week she was there. The Market Maven was recently featured on Portland, Oregon radio station KPAM’s weekly travel show.
COPYRIGHT Pamela Corante-Hansen and themarketmaven.wordpress.com, 2009-2011. All rights reserved.
Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Pamela Corante-Hansen and themarketmaven.wordpress.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.Read earlier posts here
Tags
Pages
June 2012 M T W T F S S « Aug 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Oh, Market Maven, you bring back so many memories of my own Italian neighborhood deli in Anaheim. With $1, Iwould trot off through the empty lot at the end of our street and over to the deli. I had strict instructions, that I dared not ignore, lest my portfolio as 7 year old shopper be revoked. I was to purchase 1/2 pound cotto salami and 1/4 pound hard salami. The hard salami would be the fodder for my own lunches the rest of the week.
The smells from that market, Cortinas, still haunt my dreams. It is still there, but it has been remodeled. The food is still good, but the pungent smell has gone. As for my $1, it won’t even buy the string that ties off the salami.