This is the week that we face the truth: The days are getting shorter, and the nights colder. (As I type this, I’m wearing a sweater for the first time since June.) Like most fairs, parts of it have become garish and cookie-cutter — but this one still has agriculture at its heart. (For more ways to fulfill your fair food fix, check out Marissa Conrad on how vendors are navigating the closures of state fairs.) And now is the moment when it seems like everything’s in season: cherries and cucumbers, figs and eggplant, zucchini and apples.

Source: New York Times September 02, 2020 14:30 UTC