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More city dwellers connect with their food via street markets
Reuters
By Sonia Elks
LONDON, June 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From Moscow to New York, street markets around the world are finding new fans as urban dwellers look for a deeper connection to their food and local communities, market managers, property developers and tourism bosses said on Thursday.
Shoppers are being drawn in with foodie experiences such as the chance to sample locally foraged mushrooms in the Latvian capital Riga, or chat with the farmer who grew the vegetables on sale in Detroit, heard an international conference in London.
“There are different places, different customs, but at the end of the day everyone wants to eat,” said Andrea Rasca, founder of London street food market Mercato Metropolitano.
“Markets reconnect the rural economy to the city: in a market you get in touch with the people who are producing their own stuff.”
Street markets have existed for centuries, often offering basic household goods, ingredients and meals at low prices.
In the United States, farmers’ markets have almost doubled to some 8,700 in a decade, government data shows, while the turnover of Britain’s 1,200-odd markets grew to 3.1 billion pounds last year, industry body Mission for Markets said.
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