September 21, 2010
We continued on our merry shopping way through the Whole Foods store (we have heard it called "Whole Paycheck") in West Palm Beach on Saturday. There is a dizzying array of shiny, colorful goods to be had at WF. Who knew that there could be so many different kinds of olive oil? Here - just a small selection of their olive oil shelves - are: Toasted Almond Oil, Sundried Tomato Oil, Porcini and Truffle Oil and Lemon and Ginger Oil. When the revolution (or the big hurricane) comes, I want to be locked in a Whole Foods Store. I am someone raised on Mazola Corn Oil as the all-purpose cooking oil of a well-run household, though we have come around in the last decade to believe that good olive oil is a basic necessity, these dazzling little jewel-like tins were amazing.
Luckily the New England thrift gene kicked in, or we would have a new collection, and the children would have been forced to come home from college, because their acquisitive mother had just spent the all the tuition money...

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