Missing Seattle: Pike Place Market
This is such a huge tourist spot, but locals actually go, or at least I did both times I lived in Seattle.
Back in the '90s, my lovely half-Italian roommate worked at one of the food shops here and made friends with the crab guys and would bring the three of us girls that lived together home fresh Dungeness crab and we'd melt a stick of butter and spread newspapers out on the living room's hardwood floor and feast. This happened all the time...it was wonderful.
More recently (four years ago), I lived in Queen Anne, which is right up the hill from the Market, and once a week or so I'd come down with my little red basket and buy vegetables and strawberries and fresh fish (although honestly, I like the fish market at the Fisherman's Terminal better, but that's another post). And the tulips this time of year, oh my. They grow them in Washington, you know, and the ones at Pike Place Market have the longest stems imaginable--they're like three times longer than normal. Those tulips were always one of the highlights of my week.
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