Supermarket porn
In New York it feels like anything could happen but this title doesn’t refer to any lurid goings on in a supermarket. No, I have sometimes wondered where I’d like to be laid to rest and when I got here, Whole Foods Market entered the stakes; it’s like a good night out, with your daily vegetable quotient thrown in.
I’ve been taking pictures of vegetables in Wholefoods and the other day met a woman who shared my zeal for how beautiful everything looks, like a loved urban harvest.
‘The pumpkins, now honey, they’re the best to shoot when they’re in season’.
A kooky pair, we walked around the fruit & vegetable department at Columbus Circle musing about which displays we loved most. I was misty eyed over the artichokes but she went for the carrots, ‘see how they’re stacked, look at the patterning, gorgeous, hold this’. I held her basket, she took pics and returned the favour when I cried, ‘mushrooms!’
The first weekend I was here I got so overexcited at the local Wholefoods on 96th that I bought enough cheese and supplies to see us through a war. I naively lugged it home on the subway and had frozen shoulder for almost 10 days. But you see it does that to you, Wholefoods, it seduces you into thinking that if you buy those two bunches of asparagus for $3.49 you’ll get closer to enlightenment.
I’ve now experienced Union Square (full on but great people watching, models with crispbreads and boys with two day growth, great outfits and I am convinced it is a pick up joint), Bowery (fromagerie and restaurant on top, with art!, giant eco-boutique), Chelsea (less impressive but great soup for flower markets), 96th (local, love it, on first name terms with the security guard) & Columbus Circle (ridiculously large cake dept) and tomorrow, Tribeca. Ah Wholefoods, a far cry from Franklins.
Would you look at that stacking?
Mushrooms! Are you excited? They're blue
I heart artichokes
Golden beets
Soup for an army
More mushrooms!
Crunch time
Sunshine cup cakes
Cabbage helmets
Potato stack
Edaname lunch
I'm not alone, my Wholefood's friend
Antipasto
Who buys packaged roast veg??
You could build a house with this
Cupcake enlightenment
That's lunch from the self-serve bar...yes Dad, that's is a serving of macaroni cheese...
Cafe @ Bowery (in a supermarket - art and everything!)
Oh Lisa – this was one of my fave things in NYC…
Divine.
There is good coffee at the Chelsea food markets – can’t remember address – other great foodie spots in there as well.
xx
Ah, Wholefoods… we were staying about a block from the Columbus Circle one – Scott LOVED it and bought soooo much fruit although he had been in India for a few months beforehand which could explain his obsession. Enjoying your blog – it is on the google reader!
I hear you!!! I have just returned from Las Vegas & NYC and I have to say Wholefoods (yes there was one in Vegas thank goodness!! Thought it were a mirage in the desert!) was a bit of a highlight…even their brussell sprout salad looked good!