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The Tenth Thing to Love About Madison: The Farmer's Market

September 16, 2007 6:47 AM

o, although I've lived in Madison for over three years now, I had never made it down to the famed farmer's market around the capital. This was partly due to the fact that I hate getting up early on weekends--or at all, really--and the fact that I don't really buy a lot of produce, anyway. But I finally went this weekend, and it was pretty good.

First of all, there's not just produce, although there's certainly lots of that. But there's also a shitload of a really good baked goods (I had an awesome cheese danish), lots of meat products (some of the beef jerkey and beef sticks were awesome), and, of course, lots and lots of cheese. As it turns out, the cheese was my favorite part. I've recently decided that I actually love bleu cheese, and there was some damned good bleu cheese there. My favorite, by far, was this bleu cheddar stuff. It was fucking amazing.

Second, Saturday was the perfect fall day. The air was just a little chilly, there was a little breeze, and the whole day suggested that winter's just around the corner, but it's not ready to snow just yet. There really wasn't a better way to start the day than at the farmer's market. And there was certainly no better way to continue it than a trip to the Fitchburg Dane for lunch and the Badger game. Although the Badgers looked pretty weak in the first half, it was nice to see them really start kicking ass in the fourth quarter.

After the bar, we went back to L-Dawg and X-tina's, where we took turns napping. God, I was exhausted--I had gone to bed at about 1am and gotten up at about 6 for some reason. Still, we kind of watched the Michigan game and, despite all my prayers to the contrary, they annihalated Notre Dame.

Eventually, we went bowling, which was a lot of fun, but which also spelled the end of the evening because, frankly, L-Dawg, X-tina, Utah, and I were all about to pass out.

All in all, it was an almost perfect autumn day.



5 Comments


dicta said:

i've never been to madison, but i think i'm jealous of your farmer's market.

dominique and i recently moved (june), and i've found a small farmer's market-ish type thing nearby, and there's another every saturday morning that we have yet to get here. fresh food is the best food.

September 17, 2007 12:12 PM



Issy said:

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November 24, 2011 2:48 AM



Audel said:

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November 26, 2011 12:15 AM









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