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Ferry Building Farmers Market

It's an heirloom-tomato-eat-heirloom-tomato world out there at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. SF's resident foodies, not content to settle for something as banal and yesteryear as an Early Girl (unless it's dry-farmed, of course) are always on the lookout for what's new, hot, the latest!

Beyond a small frenzy over Ella Bella's dry-farmed tomatoes (I saw Italian cookbook author Carol Field buying up bagfuls), this is what my trip to the market last Saturday revealed:
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Best of The Farmers Markets

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Pluots, dino kale and rainbow chard—so turn of the (last) century. We shopped our local farmers markets to bring you the latest menu darlings.

Pluots, dino kale and rainbow chard—so turn of the (last) century. We shopped our local farmers markets to bring you the latest menu darlings. photography by Stefanie Michejda

Ancho Cress
Star Route Farms (Marin)
This peppery cress is used as a side salad at Delfina, tossed with cucumber, radish and lemon vinaigrette.