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Vegetable Walla In the courtyard of Radha's
apartment complex in Bangalore, the vegetable walla sells his produce
every afternoon from a large, flat cart. He wheels it in on foot, parks it
in one corner, and waits for the women to descend the stairs with their
pocketbooks in hand. Here, the walla weighs
Radha's carrots by hand with a balance scale while she tries to convince
him to add another one for the price. Depending on your tummy's desire, dinner tonight
could include: hearts of young banana stalk (the pale cylinders), tender loofah (the
long, ridged squash), bitter melon (the bumpy ones), winter melon (that
thin wedge of white), plantains, coconut, tiny eggplant, cabbage, young
ginger--just to name the ones I could fit into my photos. I didn't touch a
single vegetable; his arrangement was already perfectly beautiful.
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