If I was a fan of the small-to-medium sized Whole Foods in Millburn, I might now be considered a stalker of the large-to-excessive sized location, newly opened in Union.
See, I shop there everyday -- as if it's not the most expensive grocery store in the world.
I'm on a first-name basis with at least two of the employees, one who has taken a personal interest in my well-being, god bless her, and has offered to help me find a job there; the other a total hottie that makes me wish their liberal free-sampling policy applied to everything in the store.
Did I mention that I'm there EVERYDAY -- as if it's the quaint food-stand on the corner or an outdoor market somewhere in Europe, conveniently located on my bike-route home?At first I told myself it was the coffee. My 16 oz., iced, decaf-skim mocha made perfectly by Jahonna, or Bonnie. It costs the same as my former favorite daily coffee at Starbucks, but is far, far superior.
Then of course there is the wide array of organic produce, and more importantly, organic dairy products that they sell. Whole Foods was an essential selling point when we moved here from Brooklyn in 1999, replacing the beloved Park Slope Food Coop that I belonged to for many years. If I'm going to consume any "milk-of-another-species" based foods, as we refer to cow's milk in my my house, it has to be both hormone and pesticide free. If locally produced too, all the better. That's akin to being self-righteous in three languages!
But the truth is that Whole Foods is my Tiffany's. It's shiny, it smells good, and they're nice to me there. As Ms. Golightly asserted of that iconic Fifth Avenue institution: "Nothing bad can happen to me here."
And in this time of global economic and literal climactic meltdown, don't we all need a place to feel safe? And wouldn't it be nice if you could wrap up that feeling and take it to go?
Lisa Duggan is the print-publisher in exile of The MotherHood Magazine, and now publisher of this blog. She can be found at the Whole Foods in Union most days between 8:00 and 9:30am, and invites you to join her for breakfast, anytime.
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2 comments:
Sheesh! The Whole Foods in White Plains has to have someone who directs traffic so the crazed drivers don't run over each other. You have to pay for parking and the whole place is just a pain. Maybe I will enjoy your nice, new WF once we get settled over there in NJ!
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