A Day At Findlay Market

Since I'm in Cincinnati now I've been doing all sorts of nati-type things.  You know like eating a large variety of regional food, trolling large suburban malls, and bonding with the fam.  My sisters and I are planning a fondue party for Saturday night so my Aunt Suzy offered to take me to Findlay Market to stock up on cheese.  (More on the fondue party later)

I'm ashamed to say it, but I've never actually been to Findlay before this visit.  For those of you who are not Cincinnatians, Findlay Market is a food market in Over-the-Rhine, and according to wikipedia is Ohio's "oldest, continuously operated public market."

Suzy is definitely a good Findlay Market tour guide so I'll let you know where she went to stock up.  One of our first stops was a sausage stall, Kroeger and Sons Sausage.  This stall had a huge variety of weiners - all shapes and sizes - but mostly German.  Now of course I don't eat this stuff, but if I did it would look pretty enticing.  See.....

Man, talk about a sausage fest!

Next up was Colonel De Ray's spices.  Apparently he, "takes the common and makes it uncommon."  And he sure had a wide range of spices.  My mom instructed me to pick up herbs de provence and south western spice for her, but when I asked for southwestern spice they asked me which type.  Apparently they have 3 different kinds!  So of course I called my mom and told her asssistant to interrupt her meeting due to this "life and death situation."  She needed Debbies Southwestern spice - CRISIS AVERTED!

Last but not least we went got to the big cheese, literally.  I mean I bought over 8 pounds of cheese.  The woman behind the counter at Silverglades was very helpful, and we came up with an assortment of mostly emmental, and some other baby swiss cheeses (which mostly help to cut the cost - fondue isn't cheap!)

We finished off the day with two tasty crepes and some good conversation.  Findlay Market is such a neat little Cincinnati treasure I'm shocked I haven't been sooner.