Tag Archives: Grocery Outlet
The Berkeley Wire: 06.22.10
Bicylist fatally struck by car on South Park Drive in Tilden Park [ABC7]
Who knew? Berkeley-based Grocery Outlet eyes expansion in lean times [SF Chronicle]
Former Eccolo sous-chef on breaking the rules in the Bay Area [The Atlantic]
Benefit for Berkeley’s East Bay Humane Society post-fire [East Bay Express]
City council meets tonight: thirty-seven item agenda [City of Berkeley]
Photo: At the Berkeley Farmers’ Market by fom/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Essence of Berkeley: Food shopping as worship
In case you missed it, a post on this site last week elicited an entertaining rumination by Berkeleysider EBGuy on Berkeley’s food stores and their role as our new cathedrals — or temples, or synagogues. More Berkeleysiders weighed in with their analogies. Here’s the full list (so far):
Farmers’ Markets: outdoor tent revivalists. This is where the Food Fundamentalists go. Berkeley Bowl: non-denominational mega church. Draws from the surrounding region. You go there, right? Berkeley Natural Grocery: storefront religion at … Continue reading »
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