Most absurd corner of the berry market might be Erewhon’s $19 strawberry flown directly from Kyoto. Reason it’s so expensive: in Japan, there’s a farming concept called “hatsumono” (translates to “first of season”).  Take any produce (cucumber, tomato) and first farmer to market fetches multiples of the avg. price and gets all media fanfare. Strawberries are an extreme example: the traditional growing season starts in Spring (April-May). But the race to get to market first has made…