Vegetable Shopping for a New York Kitchen

Victor Kerlow

Dear Diary:

Overheard by my husband while he waited to buy radishes at the Union Square Green Market:

Worker at vegetable stand, holding the fresh carrots just given to him for purchase:

“Do you want me to cut off the greens?”

Woman purchasing:

“Oh yes. They’re for a friend and she has a very small apartment.”

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