TRAVEL
Places, Food & Drink
"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.
You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky --
all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it."
-- Cesare Pavese
International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association
2025 Photo Contest Award
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CATEGORY: FOOD
BOXES OF BERRIES MINUS ONE
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At Little Italy’s Saturday Mercato Farmers’ Market in San Diego, California, baskets of freshly picked blueberries and raspberries stopped me in my tracks. Then I moved along to peruse more of the famous six-block long marketplace held every Saturday -- rain or shine -- at Piazza della Famiglia, Little Italy’s largest square. When I returned to the display of berries, an empty space left a compelling narrative. Was it a box of blueberries or a box of raspberries?
ATHENA LUCERO
Whether you’re in search of inspiration for your next adventure or keen to learn something new, I hope you’ll indulge -- and simply enjoy.
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