When I was a Poodle Nanny to Corky I would frequently go down to Long Beach to care for him. And I loved going to Whole Foods on Pacific Coast Hwy to shop for exotic foods. It is more expensive, but I didn't mind splurging now and then to try something new. In 2012 this was one of my favorite to-go dinners.
Thanks to Kali the Baking Goddess (whoever she might be) I enjoyed these delicious crackers.
They were always really crispy, I suppose because they were packed with a Desi Pak.
And the seafood chowder was fantastic. Helped by the fact that I would never spend the time or money to make it just for myself.
When Corky went over the Rainbow Bridge I slowly stopped going to Long Beach. But Whole Foods built a store in Brea, diagonally across the intersection from my closest Starbuck's drive-thru. Wow, I thought I would shop there all the time. But it has been several years and I have only been twice. It is an enormous store and they have music all the time - LOUD music that is not something I would ever listen to by choice. Not long ago I was in Long Beach and stopped into the Whole Foods I once haunted, it is the same calm, fascinating, quiet place it always was. How can two stores be so different? I'll try Whole Foods - Brea again one of these days, just to see if I am mistaken, but I imagine I will still find it vast and way too noisy. Perhaps that is why I find people who hate Whole Foods. They just haven't hit on the right location.
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1 comment:
I love Whole Foods! Wish we had one.
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