Ode to Brixton Market

allelujah, the vicious plans to pull down this exciting fount of exotic foods and erect yet another Faceless Temple of Bland Edibles and Mindless Consumerism have come to none! Brixton Market is here to stay.

Tesco's 2-pound Curry Pack and Starbucks' Cardamom-and-Chili Soy Milk Crappuccino aficionados will have to go elsewhere and leave us alone to enjoy the colourful cornucopia of African, South American, Indian, Chinese, Caribbean and Middle Eastern groceries.

Brixton Market keeps us from the sad fate of having to sustain on Tesco and the ilk's substandard fodder. Where else can you buy in one place

• Columbian sausage,
• Thai durian,
  
• Nigerian fufu,
  
• Jamaican locust fruit,
• Turkish bulgur,
  
• Panamanian chayote,
  
• Chinese daylily buds,
• Brazilian mandioquinha and
• Ghanaian garden eggs

and at a price anyone can afford?