Opera, cava, dancing at the Valencia Market!

Wake up St. Lawrence Market and for that matter all markets — in November opera singers disguised as shopkeepers were selling produce at various stalls at the central market in Valencia , Spain .  Suddenly Verdi ‘ s Il Trovatore  started playing over the loudspeakers, and watch what happens!   YouTube video

Now this is what the joyless  Slow Food movement should be advocating !

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About Gina Mallet

Gina Mallet is the author of Last Chance to Eat, The Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World, which won the 2005 James Beard Award for writing on food, an account of the lost world of eating. She is a former theatre critic, and now the restaurant critic for the National Post of Canada.
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