Market Report: Catering to low-income clientele in Richmond, Calif.; Plus, recipes for two Italian specialties

The 21-year-old farmers market in the San Francisco suburb of Richmond offers Asian vegetables such as gai choy and taro and also a selection of vegetables that our Bay Area correspondent, Victoria Slind-Flor, carries home and turns into a couple of Italian specialities. With eggplants and tomatoes, she makes a Sicilian relish called caponata. And with these fresh-shelled cranberry beans, some chard, a leek, and other vegetables, Victoria makes a hearty Italian soup called ribollita.

Here is Victoria's report on her recent visit to the Richmond, Calif., farmers market.