When my husband and I were on our honeymoon in the States and Canada, we often found it really difficult to find fresh fruit and vegetables. Leaving LA was a Godsend - not only because it was such an unfriendly city, but because the whole time we were there we had been subjected to some pretty unhealthy food! Most impressive was blue, red and bright green corn chips served with a Mexican meal one afternoon! We did find a few salads on menus around the place though and one night feeling a little peckish at midnight, my husband and I decided to order room service. We ordered a salad to share. It arrived in the largest size mixing bowl in a standard kitchen set and consisted of an entire iceburg lettuce and what seemed like a kilo of bacon and a litre of blue cheese dressing! It was awesome - but not really what we had in mind when ordering a light salad to snack on!
When we arrived in London Ontario, about an hour and a half from Toronto we walked the city to try and find some fresh produce. We finally discovered a beautiful indoor space called Convent Garden Markets. We went nuts stocking up on vegetables and fruit to snack on, just to try and combat the scurvy that had set in while in the States! But it wasn't until we got to Toronto that we found the Holy Grail of produce. The angels had sang and a light came down from the heavens - It was the most inspirational and beautiful display of vegetables I had ever seen. This was such a phenomonal sight it was almost enough to turn vegetarian...
If it wasn't for the memory of that dripping hot, crackly bacon on that bloody salad in LA!
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