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A sudden thought after reading another bunch of blog entries about the credit crisis and thinking about the etymology of "economy": so that's why those chapters in Jurgen and Figures of Earth were titled "Economics of (Whatever)". Also, the phrase "home economics" is something of a pleonasm.
The Mountain View farmer's market has a bewildering array of produce of various qualifications. At this point I'm pretty sure that strawberries selling for under $10 a half flat are conventionally grown stuff at a $1-2 markup over what you can get at Milk Pail Market. Organic strawberries are about $5 more. For the uninitiated, a half flat is 6 baskets, or about 3.5 litres (or 3½ quarts.)
Update (2008/06/18): Whoops! After taking out the 3 baskets I trimmed and froze and weighing them, it turns out to be only 2.5 litres.
Some vendors are also at Sunnyvale, although not the honey seller. I'm sticking with the can of mesquite from Trader Joe's, because I have Plans for the dark jar of buckwheat I got a few weeks ago. Other vendors are at Sunnyvale but not in Mountain View, such as the Dibrova sausage stall. In its place is TLC Ranch, which is a pretty bare-bones affair; just a guy, a board with prices, and some styrofoam coolers. I got some organic Italian sausage, hot and not, and have been working it up for dinner this week.
Cooking it on medium-low heat for about 25 minutes with summer squash works pretty well, so long as I cut the sausage up and don't try to cook more than one layer of squash slices at a time. Then add ¼ cup of cooking sherry, scrape up all the brown gunk, add a little water, shovel all of the squash back in, and cover it for 5 minutes. I can definitely taste the increase in caramelization over last night's effort with two whole links and the heat a notch lower.
