maggiethecat

Whole Foods? Blech. Overpriced---way. Condescending hippyshit "Mission" I go there because they carry full line Burt's Bees and the greeting cards ain't bad. Everything else can be bought better cheaper around Chicago. Caputo's in Hanover Park has the best , widest variety, international produce section I have ever seen. It is vast. Prices? Key limes, 10 for a buck. Fingerlings, 29 cents a pound. I often feel as if I'm stealing.

Stella is no snob. That junk she hates is horrifying slop. To paraphrase Duke Ellington: "If it tastes good, it is good." (I admit to a fondness for California dip made with dry onion soup mix, an ingredient that would never hit my pantry if not for the dip!)

I make liquors at home. No biggie. But what is the active ingredient in Canpari? We know about the nonalcoholic bitters. But what makes Campari Campari? Herbs and so forth?

The frozen green beans, are, so help me, from France! Slim, green, beautiful, tasty. A bottle of pretty decent plonk costs under five bucks. And the cheese is better than acceptable and damn cheap. And there is, of course, the candy aisle. Thank God I lack the chocolate gene or I would be as chubby a kittycat as Morris!

I have never in my adult life eaten without candlelight....unless I was eating outside my home. As a matter of fact, my dining room has no light fixture, so it's a necessity. Ikea has nice candles cheap. My silverwear is sterling, English and all over 150 years old...all thanks to Mum. It is all I use. Beautiful and indestuctible. Linen napkis, tablecloth...sure! Hell, life is short. Use the stuff.

Growing up, as I did, in Quebec, I know the answer to this sucker: A full-sized, unleaded pepsi and a bag of poutine (delicious greasy frites smothered in gravy and hard curd cheese.