Boston Public Market open Wednesday to Sunday, 8 am to 8 pm, serving lunch, too!

[merrily]

Great story on Chronicle tonight about the Boston Public Market. https://bostonpublicmarket.org/

It's above the Haymarket Square T Station, selling locally grown food.

It's not for profit. It's year round (unlike the outdoor farmers' markets that dot Boston until November).

All but 2 of its vendors are from Massachusetts, so it's "hyper local."

It matches SNAP dollar for dollar, thanks to a Boston Mayoral program.

Everything isn't fruit and veg. There are doughnuts! And locally "grown" honey.

There are cooking classes, including one for kids that is taught by Children's Museum staff and Cooking on a Budget, sponsored by Project Bread.

There is an educational program called "taste of the season" sponsored by Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/greater-boston/bpm-1024.html

And more.

It's the first indoor public market to open in Boston since the venerable Quincy Market.

It serves lunch.

Check out the website and y'awl come!

[Warpy]

1. Sounds great, I used to go to the outdoor market there

every weekend, without fail, returning home with a week's groceries in a backpack and a couple of canvas bags. Moving it indoors will make it a bit less miserable in soggy weather. I just hope the space rents aren't prohibitive. I know they're higher, it'll take people 5 days instead of 2 to make their money.

[merrily]

2. There is an outdoor farmers' market at City Hall. However, the one at Haymarket proper, while great,

is surplus stuff, not always the "cream of the crop," so to speak. However, it's fine, if you use the stuff relatively quickly. Though the vendors sometime include less than desirable pieces of fruit and veg in the bag with the good stuff, the prices are still good, even after you discard the undesirable bits. I love buying things there that are relatively pricey in supermarkets, like fresh figs.

[Warpy]

3. Oh, yeah, I ate well there

and I knew the veg were from the wholesale place, all the stuff that the supermarkets had turned down. I didn't care, it was cheaper than dirt and plentiful and a short walk to the North End to stock up on olive oil and still warm Italian breads.

Living in the city meant getting shafted on rent, but everything else could be cheaper if you spent the time to look for it.

[merrily]

4. True. I've always said that NYC is a very cheap place to live, as long as you don't pay rent.

Boston is not as cheap as NYC, but also very live-able, again, if you don't pay rent (or real estate taxes!).

You know those figs I mentioned in my prior post? My next stop after the Haymarket would be a North End shops for prosciutto, bufalo mozzarella and some great bread. Grill or broil the figs and wrap in them in the cold prosciutto and eat with the great bread. Have a caprese salad and an ear of corn and some great bread.

And now I'm hungry.