Spaghetti. We've been here a week and a half and not opened a tin or a carton. The largest, ripest tomatoes were €0.29 (£0.25, $0.45 CAD) a kilo. They simmer with onions and garlic and long sweet red peppers and a courgette and some parsley into a thick rich sauce. Mushrooms added at the end. Whole wheat pasta. Grated mature cheddar. Almost everything local (not the pasta, obviously, and not the cheese in this case, although there is a lot of good local cheese). Oranges still have the leaves and were on the trees pretty recently - it's still early in the season for them. They're on trees along boulevards, in gardens. Sometimes inconveniently planted mid sidewalk. Cars also habitually park on sidewalks, even where the streets are not narrow enough to indicate this. Must be a nightmare for wheelchair users and mums with prams.
