When Daryle Dutton's local food co-op was shut down to make way for high-rise condos, he and his neighbors found themselves having to get in the car and drive 30 minutes just to pick up a tomato for d...
We don't think Whole Foods deserves the moniker Whole Paycheck. In fact, there are certain products that are cheaper than at other stores, especially New York City stores, that we routinely stock up...
RegionalBest.com is a new e-commerce site offering hundreds of foods that are raised, caught or produced by local artisans. Foods appealing to me right now are Maryland blue crab cakes, Idaho grass-fe...
One of San Francisco's oldest and longest-standing food markets is Molinari, which has been around since 1896. Since then, Molinari has been making some of the tastiest salamis and selling Italian gr...
We're not sure if this is a new product or if it's been there all along, but we were excited to discover arborio rice on a recent shopping foray to Trader Joe's!...
In an era almost bereft of "local" grocery stores, we are so excited that City Feed and Supply has opened up a second location on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain! More details after the jump......
Do you shop in Chinatown? We're always intimidated by the markets there. The produce is often unfamiliar, and a language barrier doesn't exactly help. But we snapped some pictures while walking alon...
On this past week's episode of Splendid Table, Steve Jenkins of Fairway Market reminds us that there was indeed a time before foodies were foodies. He knows because was there to when it all began!...
Whole Foods wants the name calling to stop. Yep, that's right, with the economy slipping Whole Foods just doesn't want to be known as Whole Paycheck anymore. Whole Foods insists they can be an economi...
Twitter is a free micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates of up to 140 characters in length. Most updates come from mobile phones, which makes Twitter an useful service for blogging ...
A recipe for vegetable skewers with muhamarra – our new favorite dip – from Supernatural Cooking by Heidi Swanson sent us to Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood this weekend. We were in search of o...
We love shopping for food - it can be an adventure into something new, or it can be an experience for the senses....
A new Piggly Wiggly store opened in Myrtle Beach, SC, last month, and it is laid out in an unconventional way. Instead of the traditional model — produce on one side, dairy in the back — the sto...
The exact size of old-school gumballs, these little nibs of pretzel and chocolate are the perfect salty-sweet combination. Biting down on one (or a handful) gives a soul-satisfying crunch that we've b...
I sometimes forget that fine cheese isn't so easy to find. I'm a spoiled New Yorker, and whether I'm close to home or work, I'm only a few moments away from a trusted purveyor of the kind of cheese...
We are blogging our way through major national grocery store chains and letting you weigh in with your impressions, thoughts, and opinions. Today's pick: Kroger. Kroger is a grocery store behemoth. ...
If you live or work in Manhattan you've probably walked by it a hundred times. You may have even popped in to pick up the odd bunch of organic chard or carton of soy milk. But for those of us who l...
The Lunar New Year is here, and you’ve got a craving for handmade dumplings, citrus fruit wrapped in red paper, and red bean sweets. But hitting San Francisco's Chinatown isn’t an option - the ...
Whole Foods - where do we even begin? In our ongoing review of regional and national grocery stores, Whole Foods is an obvious choice to review, and there is a lot to say about this juggernaut of heal...
We are kicking off our yearlong review of major national grocery store chains with a staple of the Southern United States: Publix. Publix supermarkets are a familiar sight in the Southeast - especia...
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