Borough Market

My younger cousin, Annie studied abroad last summer in London and kept insisting that I visit Borough Market. I only finally got to go today and I love it! Just south of the London Bridge is London's oldest food market, which features top-quality fish, meats (I saw fresh pheasant and rabbit gutted and hanging, with its fur still on - I decided against posting those pictures - trust me, you'd thank me :), vegetables, cheeses, olives, chocolates, bread, coffee... which leads me to the unwavering wonder of how a country with such first-class ingredients, has such shite-food! Granted I can't cook, but I know when you're missing the core ingredient of... oh, let's say... salt! Which is always missing! Just the other day, my co-worker (who's also American) got beef teriyaki for lunch, but it was so tasteless, he threw it away. How do you mess up beef teriyaki?... we concluded they forgot to add "teriyaki." This will not be the first or last time you hear me griping about the food here, but I digress!

Borough Market was awesome. Michael and I shared a German brautwurst, Thai green curry rice, 2 coffees w/ Costa Rican sugar (waah?), and hand-picked chocolate truffles within the hour that we were there. We will be coming back!

Michael: "Brautwurst? Pffff... I've had real German sausage - in GERMANY!"

"But I'll eat it anyway."