Vegetables

N.B. – Many of these vegetable

dishes constitute a course in

themselves, and are intended to

be served as such, after the meat

or fish, when their full flavour

will be appreciated.

The Vegetable Market at Palermo

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‘The near end of the street was rather dark and
had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of
vegetables – piles of white and green fennel, like
celery, and great sheaves of young, purplish, sea-
dust-coloured artichokes, nodding their buds,
piles of big radishes, scarlet and bluey purple,
carrots, long strings of dried figs, mountains of