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It isn't meant to be as reliable. There is only supposed to be corn or apple or blueberries at your local farmers market for the relatively short period of time

It isn't meant to be as reliable. There is only supposed to be corn or apple or blueberries at your local farmers market for the relatively short period of time every year when they are in season where you live. Instead of going to the farmers market with a list of ingredients for what you want to make, you are supposed to go and see ingredients are available and plan meals accordingly. Compared to the modern supermarket where everything is available all the time it is certainly a pain in the neck. But in exchange you (sometimes) get produce that's so much better than the visually flawless but tasteless items you often get in a supermarket that it doesn't even seem like the same plant.

kchoudhu 9y ago
> you are supposed to go and see ingredients are available and plan meals accordingly Farmers markets are not part of a serious urban domestic supply chain where reliability matters. They are for fun, and that is ok! I love picking up a weird jar of flavored honey or some fresh blackberries for snacking. I just wish people would stop suggesting that farmer's markets are some kind of solution to all that ails the urban cook. I get the urge to go back to simpler times when people spent two hours shopping before spending all day over the stove, but by and large, I think it's silly. We've moved on, and the number of people that turn up unannounced at our home for a warm evening meal tells me that even the degraded produce in markets today is more than sufficient to produce great meals.