In one of my first posts on this blog, I referenced an article in The Atlantic discussing Madrid's local markets, and how they have changed. On Monday, Gretta and I visited the Maravillas market, Madrid's largest. It was impressive and vast. Each individual stall was rather tiny, but there were more than 200 of them. The amount of meat and seafood was impressive: all manner of strange North Sea fish, sardines, crabs, langostinos, pig heads, cow tongues, whole rabbits, and every possible cut of pork. The fruits and vegetables were no less amazing, though the tomatos we picked up were somewhat crappy. Nonetheless, for less than 15 euros I was able to pick up quite a bit of food, and we made ourselves a pretty nice meal: bocadillos de chorizo, espárragos, jámon, pepinos con tomates, y pan.
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