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    Good Food

    Market Report

    David Karp is a pomologist with UC Riverside and a freelance writer for the Los Angeles Times food section, where he writes the Market Watch column. This week he describes the Crane Melons sold at Windrose Farm at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. He also discusses the definition of heirloom.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    David Karp is a pomologist with UC Riverside and a freelance writer for the Los Angeles Times food section, where he writes the Market Watch column. This week he describes the Crane Melons sold at Windrose Farm at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. He also discusses the definition of heirloom.

    You can see David’s Market Watch column about the Crane Melon here.

    Amelia Saltzman

    is the author of the

    Santa Monica Farmers Market Cookbook. See all of her melon suggestions on the

    Good Food Blog. For information on Amelia’s demonstration at the Good Food Festival,

    click here.

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    The full episode

    2 of 8
    Culinary Big-Wigs, Alice Waters, Julia Child, Ferran Adria
    1. 0:00Julia Child in France
    2. 0:00Market ReportYou’re reading this
    3. 0:00A Critic in Disguise
    4. 0:00Ferran Adria
    5. 0:00Michael Pollan
    6. 0:00Music to Cook By
    7. 0:00Jonathan Gold on Wolfgang Puck
    8. 0:00Mark Bittman
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