A great thing to do when in a foreign city is to visit the farmer’s market.  The Borough Market in London is great, and the Saturday one at the Ferry Building in downtown San Francisco.  I put together two picnics on two consecutive sundays.  This being the beginning of October the produce available was tomatoes, pluots, peaches and apples. 

my first picnic consisted of a french baguette and sticky bun (like a sweet bread) from a bakery in healdsburg ca, assorted cherry tomatoes (nice and juciy), green zebras (nice lemony, citrus flavor), yellow heirloom tomatoes (yay clare!), amazing pluots and some triple cream cheese (think brie but milder) from cowgirl creamery.  all enjoyed at the gardens of yuerba buena park behind the metreon.

my second picnic was a tomato focaccia pizza fromt he same bakery, another sticky bun, green zebra tomatoes, a white nectarine (a natural sweetness), and the most amazing thing in october–farmer’s market strawberries.  they weren’t quite as good as the ones from april, but they were within 90% of that mark and worlds better then the junk sold at the grocery store.  i had resigned myself in may that i’d have to wait a whole year before strawberries again, i ate the strawberries in one sitting!