In article >,
Stan Horwitz > wrote:
>In article >,
> (Curly Sue) wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:51:19 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >Lots of changes since those times.
>>
>> Years ago when you made 'scarole, as for soup, you had to wash it
>> forever to get the dirt and sand out. Now you can buy it in the
>> grocery store and it has been cleaned up a lot. My mother almost died
>> from happiness when she discovered that.
>>
>> When I moved to the midwest in the '70s and brought in escarole soup
>> for lunch one day, it was looked at like soup from another planet.
>> Then, Bon Appetit published an RSVP recipe for "Italian Wedding Soup"
>> and it has a name and foodie credibility :>
>>
>> Even common vegetables are conveniently packaged- baby carrots, for
>> example.
>
>What's more, the grocery stores seem to carry a wider range of fresh
>produce than they did years ago. One supermarket near me have a whole
>wall filled with different kinds of bagged salad greens. Just today, I
>went grocery shopping at a supermarket in Delaware and I noticed this
>store had a lot of fresh mushrooms that I had never seen before.
Some of the produce-buying advice I got from my mom was "when you see
raspberries or asparagus, JUST BUY THEM, don't fret about the price" which
was true then, as rasps/asparagus had a short spring season.
Now they're available year round. (I generally won't buy them outside
season though ... too expensive and I just think it's wrong.)
But the selection was more limited and far more seasonal, even in the
California farmland.
Charlotte
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