Torrey Peters’s Grub Street Diet

"A giant concrete market building whose first floor is the meat market (producing a blood-and-gore smell), which drives shoppers to buy the best fruit from vendors on the surrounding streets instead; evening is a poor time for produce because items have been out in the heat all day. The market area yields rarer tropical fruits — the author lists purchases such as zapote, loquat, pineapple, sweet mangoes, cloudberries, pitaya, mint, Florida avocado, starfruit, and mangosteens (described as having a candylike, Jolly Rancher–adjacent flavor)." - Rima Parikh, Maanvi Kapur