Cheesecake and Densuke watermelon

Mexican style rice and lentils with tomato salad

Food Diary (June 21, 2011)

Breakfast: Rolled oats with raisins, coconut, sunflower seeds and flax seeds

Lunch: Mexican style rice and lentils with tomato salad

Dinner: Oat sourdough toast with cheese

Baking/sweets:

  

Today's Favourite Photo

Source: In Good Taste

Glenn’s Cheesecake

Today’s Favourite Blog

Source: Wall Street Journal

On my way to a business meeting today I walked past a supermarket that had watermelons on special – US$0.90/€0.65 for a kilogram. I didn’t buy it as I thought it may look a bit unusual if I walked into the meeting with a big watermelon, especially since it was my first meeting with the person/organization, and the meeting was totally unrelated to fruits or food or anything edible.

Anyway, afterwards I read this post on Wall Street Journal about recession affecting the price of watermelons in Japan. The price of the Densuke variety fell sharply and sold for only 300,000 yen, about $3,740 on wholesale this year. Bargain hunters dream come true. In 2007 the price was $8,100. This year Isetan purchased the lot and they will retail at a nominal 5% markup.

Densuke is no ordinary watermelon. It is grown exclusively in Hokkaido, there are only about 100 of the stripeless watermelons available on the first day it goes on sale each year. The watermelon is crispy and extra sweet. I would imagine they are crispier and sweeter than the US$0.90/€0.65 watermelon I saw today.