farmers' market

The farmers market, held on Wednesdays and Sundays, isn’t bad either.

Silver Lake The meat in Silver Lake’s walkabilty sandwich is Sunset Junction, where Santa Monica and Sunset boulevards converge and there’s plenty for pedestrians to peruse, including Mohawk General Store and Taiwanese noodle shop Pine & Crane, a twice-weekly farmers market and one of the best Erewhons to people-watch in.

“First two weeks, you’re afraid of the war,” said Christine Codsi, a managing partner at Soul Al-Tayeb, a farmers market operating in central Beirut.

The place where Souq Al-Tayeb held its farmers market was converted to a meal preparation center, drawing dozens of volunteers to prepare 4,500 meals every day.

I discovered this Oakland-made condiment at a Bay Area farmers market last fall, intrigued by the addition of pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds to what looked like a traditional Asian-style chili crisp base of oil and dry chiles.