Mark’s Food

Mark is a cheerful man. He set up his world wide food stall at Cardiff Central Market just over a year ago. Yesterday I tried to resist buying handfuls of tasty things when he catches my eye with big grin, and, as he is notorious for, beckons potential customers and myself over to his market stall to try some FREE samples. He’s nice like that.
This week the offerings laid out on top of the counters include delicious chocolate coated sunflower seeds. I try a few, and then a handful, they are sweet, small, and have a delectable crunch. He knows I’m veggie and picks a few olives out on cocktail sticks for me to try. Olives stuffed with feta, olives stuffed with garlic, olives stuffed with pimento. I love olives. I am currently in favourite food heaven. As well as a delicious selection of olives — always tasty, never disappointing — Mark also sells an amazing range of nuts (Almond, Chilli Cashew, Salted Pistachio, Wasabi, Smoked Almond, Honey Macadamia etc.), dried fruit, liquorice (seriously, ALL my favourite foods), Turkish Delight, Baklava, chocolate raisins, chocolate brazil nuts, chocolate honeycomb (Mmmmmmmm), lots of yogurt sweets, vine leaves and Feta.
I drool and eat and drool and eat and end up leaving with brown paper bags of goodies — sumptuous sundried tomatoes, pickled garlic, and more of those chocolate-​coated seeds. Just you try not to do the same, you’ll fail. Mark won’t.