Ciao Venice!
This morning, we're going shopping at the famous Rialto Market via the Rialto bridge:
Elizabeth David, the cookbook author, portrays the Rialto markets as a visual feast:
"The light of a Venetian dawn is so limpid and so still that it makes every separate vegetable and fish luminous with a life of its own, with unnaturally heightened colours and clear stencilled outlines
"In other markets, on other shores, the unfamiliar fishes may be vivid, mysterious, repellent, fascinating, and bright with splendid colour; only in Venice do they look good enough to eat. In Venice even ordinary sole and ugly great skate are striped with delicate lilac lights, the sardines shine like newly-minted silver coins, pink Venetian scampi are fat and fresh, infinitely enticing in the early dawn."
And she was right. Look at this seafood!
And still more seafood!
How about some veggies and fruit?
(Look at those zucchini flowers and artichokes!)
Yes, it was irresistible! This is my daughter buying up a storm.
How about some ham, sausage and herbs?
Shopping is done for the day so I took my granddaughter on her first gondola ride! (Circa 2008.)
Come along with us......
Our last night, a drink in Piazza San Marco. (My son, daughter and granddaughter.)
Ciao, Venice!
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