My Trip to Pikes Place Market

The Famous Pikes Place Market in Seattle. All the brochures say that at 102 years old, it is the longest continuously operating farmers market in the country. The people in Soulard might have something to say about that though...

Anyway, this market has a pretty cool history. Apparently between 1906 and 1907, the price of onions in Seattle skyrocketed. The citizens were angry about paying fees to middlemen who brokered the produce. A councilman at the time suggested a public street market where consumers could deal directly with the farmers. On August 17, 1907, the market opened to 10,000 customers and sold out before noon. Today, the market has 120 farmers and another 190 craftspeople.

This is where they throw the fish. Unfortunately, no fish were being flung as I snapped some photos on Wednesday.

Monster sized wild King Salmon.

Shrimp as big as your head.

And lobster tails.

The market had more than just fish though.

There were all kinds of locally produced honey and chocolates and preserves and salsas.

Where are the farmers? The sign says "farmers market" too!

Oh how I love chiles. I should have brought an empty suitcase with me.

It was "Organic Wednesday" so all of these blackberries, raspberries and grapes were organic. Heaven.

Some brightly colored veggies.

And flowers everywhere. Bouquet after bouquet of $5 arrangements. If I lived in Seattle, my home would have fresh flowers everyday.

Here's a vegetable that I have never seen in real life. Its romanesco, a type of broccoli. I was stunned when I saw it. Its like the unicorn of vegetables.

Pastries of Seattle aka Food Porn

Today, I shamelessly bring you a content free post. All I've got for you here are some pictures of some tasty little pastries I ate while I was in Seattle. I can guarantee that you will not enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoyed the treats!

Above is the Lemon Curd Tart with Toasted Marshmallow and Candied Grapefruit.

Here we have an Espresso Eclair. Yum...breakfast.

This was my favorite of all things tasty Seattle. A Coconut Cream Pie Bite. Yowza it was delicious.

And finally as promised earlier, a Buttermilk Lemon Thyme Cupcake with Huckleberry Buttercream. It was phenomenal. (Hopefully you can't see that the other side was smooshed. I ran into the bakery door with cupcake in hand and smooshed one side of it into my boob. Which was a nice little icing souvenir on my sweater all day.)

I am seriously going to miss being in a place with a bakery on every corner.