Andrés Dávila ducks into a covered market in Quito's Unesco-protected colonial centre. Aisles are laden with baskets of colourful fruit,sacks of spices and tables piled high with legs of beef. He buys a choice of herbs from a smiling matriarch who sells greenery ranging from leaves for tempering altitude sickness to the gherkin-shaped San Pedro cactus
Source: casagangotena.com