Spanish Market

Happy shoppers shuffle through another leisurely day at the market lazily making this deal or that while chatting about the latest news and contemplating the quality of this week's lemons. There is a curious kind of life to the Spanish market. A life that brings the health and wealth of fresh food and mixes it with the abundance and grace that is a whole community coming together to exchange goods and get fed. Spain has long been Western Europe's leading producer, and the world's foremost exporter, of oranges and mandarins. In the early 1960s, the production of these commodities averaged 1.8 million tons a year, and by the 1980s the annual yield averaged about 3 million tons. Grapefruit, lemons, and limes were also grown in quantity, but Spain was second to Italy among West European producers of these fruits. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=91266