Suggestion for Sili Valley Folks

Have you had a cantaloupe lately? They are particularly wonderful this year, even after a 3000 mile journey from California to Alaska. I love that even with giant agribusiness, we still have nature pulling the strings. Unusually cold or mild Winters, unusually early or late springs, extra rain, less rain, subtle combinations of these things and more change the yield and flavor of the following crop season.

So now that I am gone from the Sili Valley and no longer need to protect my secret, I will tell you where to get the World's Best Melon. Go to the Mountain View Farmer's Market on a Sunday morning, and find the guy who sells only corn and melons. He also has wonderful corn, white, yellow, and mixed, five ears for a dollar. People will be swarming all over his pile of corn, peeling back the leaves to peek inside (why do we do that? I'm always peeling back and looking inside, and I've never found anything of note). Anyway, off to the side, he'll also have a giant box of melons, with only four or five melons left since they've mostly disappeared before you got there since you like to sleep in on Sundays. But even the five rejects will be wonderful--sweet, fragrant, perfect. They are pale green and smooth-skinned on the outside (like honeydews), but have orange flesh (like cantaloupes). He sells them perfectly ripe, so you should eat them that day. Mmmmmm

You're welcome.

P.S. if you are my sister you may be able to get a discount since he might think you are me. :)