London’t first slow food Sunday market features produce from 30 vendors and artisans selected for exceptional quality.
It is the only dedicated slow food market in London and is located on High Holborn Street.
Slow food refers to regionally produced, fresh, clean produce, which has been thoughtfully harvested using responsible practices.
The aim of the market is to foster connections, and a sense of community between small scale rural producers, and urban London dwellers.
There is amazing chocolate and lots of it!
The items for sale here are not mass produced. The food takes time and care to produce.
Obviously, it is much better for you, and tastes entirely better then the produce created by large scale agri-businesses so prevalent in the USA.
Fresh tomatoes burst with flavor like tomatoes should, and bread is prepared from scratch and tastes divine.
There are wonderful local artists with displays as well. All in all it makes for a most enjoyable, and tasty, Sunday stroll!
Cheers to you from London’s Slow Food Market~
For more about Slow Food in the USA, check out: https://www.slowfoodusa.org/about-us
What a yummylicious post…. 😀
Yes, I would love to toast some of that bread right now!
Scrumptious!
And good for you too!
WE need people like this in this world to come together to grow food the way it was meant to be grown. It has grown so difficult to find food that even tastes good anymore. No taste means dead food. Even the organic foods are tasteless. I remember the days of my youth when food tasted SO good. How I long to have those days back again! Beautiful post, Cindy!!! Just beautiful!!! Love, Amy ❤
You are so right. I suspect there are hordes of people who have no idea how fresh picked and properly grown produce is even supposed to taste. How can we ask people to eat fruit and vegetables when the junk they buy at the grocery store is utterly tasteless.?
Lovely, you had me at slow food. ☺ Van
Yep, I am now officially a devotee!
Great post! I LOVE markets and have a ton of pictures from them. There are markets like this one in the USA as well, as in any other place in the world. I have to write a blog one day 🙂 I have amazing pictures from a State fair in Utah, USA. Thank you for sharing!
The best food of this nature that I have had in the US in the Amish and Mennonite communities. It tastes utterly unlike the food one buys in the grocery store. We do have an active slow food movement in the US, see the link, and people can google where to find the closest slow food market.
True, it tastes different. My grandmother was a self-sufficient farmer who went to the grocery shop to mostly buy her salt and sugar. I used to be quite spoiled with a quality food, and it was hard to get used to the regular products. I guess the world’s population doubled since then and someone has to eat whatever they get…
Tiene todo tan buena pinta que apetece ir a comprar a ese mercado. 😉
Ahhh, muchas gracias mi amable amiga y tiene una buena fin de semana! ❤
Did you see how big those cheese where? Those should be delicious. And the chocolate….. I think you took that picture not because of the chocolate but because of the stud standing behind the stand
Actually, it was the chocolate! 😉
yeah yeah…..
Delicious Cindy it looks as good as if it was grown in your own back yard and cooked with love at home.
Yes, which I know you and I do! ❤
Well there’s a day well-spent! Slow food, with photos, what could be better? Ken
I wish I was there right now! I know you would love it Ken & great to hear from you my friend~
Love the artwork and will definitely head over their some time soon. Cheers. 🙂
Please let me know what you taste so I can enjoy it vicariously!
Leave the vicar alone, naughty, 🙂
Laughing…….
Looks like there was a lot of lovely fare there
I can see it expanding and becomming very popular~
A good movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food
In Canada, we’re still having a tough time getting the prices of “organic” food down.
Yes, that is a real problem, the more businesses that go organic, the more the prices do drop though. Many of the orchards around The Holler are organic, and they actually require less expense than the non-organic orchards, no pesticides, herbicides, leading to resistant insects, resistant plant disease, and the host of other problems organic herbicides and insecticides can create. Some orchards still aerial spray with helicopters which of course is super expensive and spread the chemicals in the wind over the organic orchards.
Looks like an awesome market!! Hugz Lisa and Bear
I wish it was close to The Holler!
Looks like a very interesting place, Cindy! Actually, it’s a little after midnight and I would love to have some fresh bread with butter on it. None here though. We just moved from a house to this apartment. Feeling a little disoriented right about now. Yep. yummy bread…comfort food!l
Hard feeling discombobulated and adjusting after a move. I wish I could send you some of this bread, cheese, and wine! ❤
I love London in the summer, I hope your having a fabulous time, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, Wigmore Hall, the West End ☺️ my brothers first job in London was in Holborn so I know this area well. I love artisan markets too, great photos.
It is such a fun city, and spring and summer are optimal times to visit, but a friend who lives there told me Christmas is pretty special too. I would love to spend a Christmas in Europe seeing all the Christimas displays, but all my family would need to come too!
Oh, dear, if I thought I was hungry before I opened your post. Everything looks so yummy! I love our local farmers market. I would so rather buy my products from the local farmers! Great photos! 🙂
Yep, there is no comparison to mass produced food is there. Happy Sunday Linda~
Schöne Fotos. Klasse. Freundliche Grüße, Wolfgang
Danke und haben eine wunderbare Woche Wolfgang!
We love open markets like these. Food forms an intrinsic and important aspect of a nation’s culture. Fresh foodstuff and delicacies sold in the open market is as close as one can get sans a homecooked meal to an authentic culinary experience.
I agree whole heartedly with your sentiments my friend and applaud them~
These look fabulous! A much nicer experience than shopping in a supermarket. I love going to local markets to source food, plants and crafts.
Wow. It looks absolutely magic.
echt schön, eine gute Woche wünsche ich dir, Klaus
Vielen dank Klaus und Froliche Woche mein Freund!
danke sehr
Yum!
You could have some with a salad if you have any lettuce left growing! 😉 😉
The turkeys are eating it all.
I know you told me! What turkeys! 😉
Hello Cindy! Here on Brazil we have many farmer’s markets using responsible practices. The price is a bit higher but worth it. Beautiful photos… 🙂 🙂
I love Brazil! You definitely have more healthy growing and food production practices than is so common in the US and one can taste the difference. Good for Brazil! ❤
Okay, Ging & I are in the kitchen eating like hogs now!! lol 😉 What a beautiful market place. And the food…..Yes!!! Loved this post & the last Cindy. Sharing it now. 😉 xoxo ❤
I wish I was at your place eating like a hog with you! I am dieting. I am always dieting. Except of course, when I’m not! 😉 So great to hear from both of you and cheers, hugs, and thanks you’s two’s, are flying your way!
I love that, ‘slow food’. What a perfect name for this genre of foods and art. I’m in awe of their set up too. The tents are really creative and market tables gorgeous. Even all the pots and topiaries in the background are perfectly manicured and displayed. We have a fantastic market in downtown Edmonton too. Although it doesn’t look quite this stylish, there’s an amazing array of goodies and crafts every Saturday till October. So fun to meet and chat with the person that grew your carrots 😀
You have an artists eye my friend and I agree, the set up here is one of the nicest I’ve seen. They had driftwood horses around that were just gorgeous. The visual appeal of the food, the booths, the artistry of it all was a treat to the eye, and of course, everything tasted awesome, so I was a very happy camper!
What a fantastic concept! I wanted to grab one of those flat loaves of bread and devour it right then!
Yes! It would be so lovely with the meal I am cooking now! Great to hear from you and hope all is well with you~
Thanks for the wonderful journey. 🙂
So glad you came along! ❤
Cindy, this sounds like my kind of market. Fortunately, we have similar ones close by. 😉
Cindy,
The first photo brought back wonderful memories of going to the Sunday market in Clapham last summer. The bread from that particular vendor has got to be some of the best in London! Great post. Thank you! Rona
I wish I could beam myself places. I would beam to this market for bread, to Alsace for cookies and schnitzel, and Antartica for sunny day photos! 😉
I just read an article in the latest edition of the Colonial Williamsburg mazagine. It was about the excavations done in 2013 to locate the prior market places in the historic district and present reconstruction that is going up. The article traced the origins of colonial market places to English market places, very much like what you have photographed here. Of course, guess where the English markets originated… yes, Roman and Greek forums. All roads lead to…
Oscar
They do and I really wish I could beam myself back in time to shop at the forums in Athens. Now that would be a good blog post! 😉
Your photography is amazingly beautiful! Thank you cindy!
Awwww, thank you more for such kindness!
I really like the idea of a slow food market. Your photos are lovely.
It is a great concept isn’t it! Thanks much & cheers to you~
Living markets are always fun to go too.
I love the smells of the goods – especially the floral section. 😉
*to – not too
I always mix these up, so I never noticed. I am powerless over flowers, especially if they have scents!
Awesome photos! You make it look fantastic! 🙂
Thanks, but the credit for that goes to the artisans who set it up!
Wish I could have dived through the computer scene and landed at that fabulous market! Don’t know if you have Masterchef over there but we’ve just finished a series here and I am hooked. My son gave me a fabulous cookbook by Matt Preston and I made a slow-cooked Beef Stew with herbed Dumplings for dinner. It had such a weird hotchpotch of ingredients like Swede, apple cider and Vegemite but it turned out really well. I watched Julie & JUlia recently and bought Julia Child’s cookbook and am working up to making the Beef Bourignon. xx Rowena
Cooking is so much fun and making Julia’s recipes is a blast. I make her Bourignon, potatoes dauphinese, roast chicken, many of her recipes, even though I eat much less meat these days, and only buy from organic small scale farms, which helps me cut down. One of my favorite recipes isn’t Julia’s, but Julie’s from the movie. It is the the bruschetta on sour dough that has been crisped in olive oil. Julia makes it in the movie and I found the recipe. Everyone says it is the best bruschetta they have ever had. These recipes are phenomonal for special occasions. If I ate them regularly, I would get fat! I am making sour dough bread today, but I doubt it will be as good as these artisan loaves!
Wonderful to see these pictures…
So pleased you enjoyed & cheers to you~
Thanks and cheers to You…
❤
Cindy, the photos were great and I think everything looks delicious in fresh farmer’s markets. We have two downtown sidewalk days/eves. Saturday morning and a perfect mid-week Wednesdays after work, time to refill our vegetables and fruits. From May until sometime in September. After this time, our Delaware Community market is set up like a co-op in a shop. I look for sales there on things like inside herb garden produce. This was my community service announcement which you actually began!
You are fortunate to live in such a progressive community Robin. Have a wonderful weekend my friend! ❤
What a wonderful gathering. Sure wish I could have attended. Did you bring me some of that chocolate??? 🙂
I didn’t even eat any myself darn it! I am always watching the calories…..add up! 😉
What a fabulous series,dear Cindy!You stirred up sweet memories … Happy Monday 🙂 xxx
So pleased and hugs to you my dear friend~