Anyway, as we try to remember those three numbers you call in the event of medical emergency, we hope we make it to this evening's 12 South Farmers Market, revving up another successful year in Sevier Park today from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. That gives you plenty of time to stuff your pockets with broccoli rabe before tonight's sold-out Jack White shindig at the Ryman, and maybe even order a sandwich from The Grilled Cheeserie, a Doc Braden Creole-seafood tart or one of Riffs Fine Street Food's award-winning Caribbean creations.

There'll be dairy farmers, meat purveyors, makers of artisanal breads, and vendors of everything from herb-infused lemonade and vegan snacks to candies, pies and cheese — not to mention the first flowerings of what's looming as a spectacular summer for vegetables. Stop by also for live music from The Human Revolution, led by a troubadour who bills himself simply as Human. (We confess we were even more excited early on, but then we realized we'd misread his name as Hunan.)

For a full list of vendors, click here.

Jolie Ayn Yockey, the marketing director at NFM, sent out a note alerting us that tomorrow's Night Market will be the last for a while.

"We are going to take a little break to focus on our Grow Local Kitchen, give our merchants a little reprieve from what has been such a busy last few months in the food and farming world before the busy season starts again, and do some specialty events. Unless the public really wants night markets back ASAP we will sit out not less than January-February and not more than May," Yockey said in an email.

So, the last Night Market before the hiatus is 6 to 8 p.m. tomorrow, Dec. 16, and as Yockey says, it's "a great opportunity to shop for local holiday gifts and foods while sipping on fun libations, enjoying NFM restaurants, music by Paper Lantern and more."

She adds: "If you haven’t quite made it down [to Night Market] or know others who haven’t, now is definitely the time!"

• A tidy bundle of "pan" from Shreeji Market.

Like last week, browsing the extensive freezers and refrigerators at Shreeji International Market in the Farmers Market. It's like a treasure hunt — so many exotic frozen vegetables, and lots of frozen Indian dishes plus frozen parathas and naans for a quick Indian dinner.

At the end of the refrigerated cases I spotted a tray labeled "sweet pan." Bolt of discovery excitement! Never seen this for sale before! Know what it is! Must try! I plucked a foil-wrapped paan.

Paan, a mixture of nuts and spices rolled into a betel leaf, is chewed like tobacco in locales from India east to Indonesia. Vietnam has a paan traditon, too. Sweet paan, a combination of fruits and fennel seeds, is used as an after-meal chew for its flavor and breath-cleansing properties. I needed a little of that after Arnold Myint's powerfully garlicky eggplant salad from AM@FM.

• Behold! The paan uncovered.

"I know what it is, more or less. I'm getting it." Talk to the hand, South Asian gentleman—this paan is going home in my bag!

I unwrapped my prize in the car: an emerald betel leaf folded around scented, candy-colored nuts, seeds and bits of mysterious Eastern things. It was, hmm, much bigger than I expected, much bigger than a quid of chewing tobacco. But oh well! No one's watching — here goes! I stuffed the green wodge into my cheek.

Dinner is a vegetable extravaganza of delicata squash stuffed with quinoa and chevre; field peas; roasted tomatoes; wilted greens with garlic; and brown sugar poundcake with muscadine preserves, all just like granny would have made if she'd had quinoa.

This week's film is The Garden, the story of a vast and lush 14-acre community garden created in Los Angeles after the 1994 riots, mostly by immigrants, then sold out from under the community to a developer for less than market value and bulldozed despite protest.

Farm market starts at 5 p.m. on the church lawn. Dinner is at 6 and film at 6:30. Make a reservation by calling 321-8500.

Wednesday is also the third and final Local Night Fair at Whole Foods Market in Green Hills, so get on out there and meet the people who grow, bake, craft and ferment your food. It's an excellent lineup of all the vendors you love, or meant to try. Bathtub Gin, Walnut Hills beef, Ousley Ouch salsa and Raw Food Warriors — you've read about them here on Bites and now you can visit them all in one place. Adelia Bakery and Green Door Gourmet are new to me but pretty excited to meet them. The vendors go beyond food to include jewelers Simon & Ruby, vegan soaps from Music City Suds and all-natural vegan pet food from Spoil Me S'Mo.

Hours are 6-9 p.m. and the fair takes place along the sidewalks in front of Whole Foods and Whole Body. Giving Grill will be operating — order a veggie burger or meatful burger, chips and drink for $5 and the money goes to Second Harvest, which uses it to raise awareness of hunger issues. First 50 people to buy get a freebie local product!

• Sage burgers from Raw Food Warrior

Savory and just slightly spicy, despite the pepper's ferocious reputation, they were a pleasure to eat. So I bought more Warrior food: sage burgers, falafel, lemon coconut tart.

It's not the raw food you typically think of, like a handful of nuts, some salad and loads of fruit.

Proprietor Carrie Cooper says she was motivated by boredom — and love — to look for more in a raw food diet. "In all honesty, my diet was monotonous until [husband] Jon came around. I was eating salad three times a day. And you can make dips and pates all day, but you get tired of that too. I wanted to try making more things, so we got a dehydrator and just started trying recipes."

Jonathan and Carrie have access to a commercial kitchen twice a week where they prepare the burgers, falafel, crackers, tarts and Hearty Italian bread. Their products emphasize foods nearly in their natural state, with dehydration replacing cooking (which raw-food proponents say destroys vital nutrients). A raw food diet intrigues many for its health claims, simplicity or as a weight-loss strategy.

And a diet is so much easier to stick with when there's deeply delicious food like Warrior's flavorful sageburgers, fresh and filling falafel, and an apricot lemon tart as sweet and frosty as you could hope for.

• VUMC

Today Vanderbilt kicks off a second Farmers' Market at its medical complex inside the repurposed 100 Oaks shopping mall. Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks (apparently the words "One Hundred" make for a classier name than the three-digit number) will host the new market 3 to 6 p.m. today. Here's the announcement:

The highly anticipated Vanderbilt Farmers' Market at One Hundred Oaks begins Thursday, July 7.

Enjoy the convenience and the tasty pleasures of local offerings every Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m. through Oct. 27, across from the movie theater at the south end of the mall.

On the main Vanderbilt campus, the market remains in full swing every Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m. on the Medical Center Plaza.

All through the season, you can go to the Farmers' Market section of the Health Plus website to keep up-to-date with the latest seasonal highlights, recipes, vendor spotlights, and more.

The Vanderbilt Farmers' Market is a Health Plus, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and Nashville Farmers' Market collaboration.