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PASSAGE NINETY-NINE

Good trip

1.The freezing Northeast hasn’t been a terribly fun place to spend time this winter, so when the chance came for a weekend to Sarasota, Florida, my bags were packed before you could say “sunshine”. 

2.I left for the land of warmth and vitamin C, thinking of beaches and orange trees. When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness. 

3.Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets (at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon) filled the weekend.

4.but the best part—particularly to my taste, dulled by months of cold-weather root vegetables—was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasota farmers’ market that proved to be more than worth the early wake-up call.

5.The market, which was founded in 1979, sets up its tents every Saturday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine, along North Lemon and State streets. 

6.Baskets of perfect red strawberries; the red-painted sides of the Java Dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.

7.Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened promise, I’ve refused to buy winter tomatoes for years. 

8.No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they’re unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless. 

9.But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the Brown’s Grove Farm’s stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist.

10.These were the real deal—and at that moment, I realized that the best part of Sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn’t be experiencing again for months.

11.Delighted as I was by the tomatoes in sight, my happiness deepened when I learned that Brown’s Grove Farm is one of the suppliers for Jack Dusty.

12.A newly opened restaurant at the Sarasota Ritz Carlton, where — luckily for me — I was planning to have dinner that very night.

13.Without even seeing the menu, I knew I’d be ordering every tomato on it.

第九十九篇

美好的旅行

1.寒冷的东北地区今年冬天并不是一个非常有趣的地方，所以当周末有机会去佛罗里达州萨拉索塔市时，你还没来得及说“阳光”，我的行李就已经打包好了。

2.我去了温暖和维他命C的国度，想起了海滩和橘子树。当飞机降落到蓝天和温暖的空气时，我送上了一个小小的感恩祈祷。

3.游泳池、品酒和粉红色的日落(在正常的晚上，而不是下午4点)充满了周末。

4.但最精彩的部分是早上7点去萨拉索塔农贸市场的冒险，这对我来说是最好的，因为我在寒冷的天气里吃了几个月的根茎类蔬菜，感觉很乏味。

5.这个市场成立于1979年，每周六从早上7点到下午1点，沿着北柠檬街和州街搭起帐篷，风雨无阻。

6.一篮子又一篮子的红草莓;加瓦道格咖啡车漆成红色的侧面;最重要的是西红柿:又大又软又圆的红西红柿。

7.我对许多落空的、成熟的诺言感到失望，多年来一直拒绝购买冬番茄。

8.不管它们在商店里看起来多么吸引人，一旦我把它们拿回家，它们总是又干又硬，而且没有味道。

9.但我不确定地来到了布朗格罗夫农场摊位上的一张特别的桌子上，桌上摆满了我拳头大小的新鲜柔软的西红柿。

10.那一刻，我意识到萨拉索塔冬天最好的部分是吃到我在纽约的家几个月都不会再经历的东西。

11.当我得知布朗的格罗夫农场是杰克·达斯迪的供货商之一时，我的欣喜之情加深了。

12.萨拉索塔丽思卡尔顿酒店新开的一家餐厅，对我来说很幸运，那天晚上我正打算在那里吃晚饭。

13.我连菜单都没看，我就知道我要把上面所有的番茄都点了。