The market of 1001 tastes

I've been living behind the Amsterdam foodcenter for almost two years now. It's a huge wholesale market where a lot of small and large Amsterdam shops come and buy their fruits, veggies, meat and fish. This Sunday they had an open day for the public. Which meant loads of yummie food I sampled till I couldn't sample no more;-) I bought some carrots at a stall selling socalled 'forgotten' vegetables: red, white and yellow carrots, and beettypes we used to eat a lot in Holland say 100 years ago. Check out those beautiful tomatoes!

Mushrooms galore.




I bought asperagus sprouts from van der Plas Sprouts. This company grows anything from well known alfalfa, to sprouts of garlic plants and the taste is amazing!

The traditional Dutch raw herring on a piece of 'roggebrood' or black rye bread with a gurkin was a little too much for me, although it looked great. I did take a bowl of what looked like a red fruit stew with cream. It contained raisins and berries, but the main ingredient surprisingly enough was 'gort' which is kinda like rice. Very unexpected and lovely dessert.

You can wake me up for a lemon curd tartelette any hour of the day (seriously) so these cute lemon merengue tarts had to come home with me. Not all of them of course, just two. 

This tiny shop in a car had a wide variety of foods, anything from sausages, coffee, cheeses and anchovy.

Photocollage of people working in the foodcenter in the past decades.

While the public was enyoing all the food, this lad still had to work and deliver the bread on time.