The act of grocery shopping has become increasingly sanitized and miniaturized for most people in most places now. But visiting an old-style open market where produce appears in abundant piles sold directly by people attached to the food in front of them and you seems to restore a natural balance to the process. Seeing the piles of dates or nuts or rows of fish arrayed like an army of sustenance you re-see them for what they are. Treasures plucked from the earth or retrieved from the sea and brought to you while they still have the sheen of nature over them. No shrink wrap or tin cans to get in the way.