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Monday, March 31, 2008
Bloomin’ Onions and Other Fat Attacks
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Have you read Kessler’s piece on bloomin’ onions? Where do you go for yours? What’s your favorite fast-action fat attack food?
Check out the story here:
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Passover PastTimes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ABOVE: Chocolate-covered coconut macaroons: a double threat (to my waistline).
Photo: Phil Skinner/AJC staff
With Passover just around the calendar corner (it begins April 19 at sundown), I’m reminiscing about my days in New York, when friends would have me over for first seder. I could eat my weight in matzoh (even though social civility kept me from doing so).
One special treat that was always around, and that is always seen on grocery shelves this time of year, are the cannisters of coconut macaroons made by Manischewitz. The triple chocolate kind are super moist, bite sized and coconut-ty to the last. There are few bakeries that can recreate this flavor for me, though I never met a macaroon I didn’t like.
Chocolate, triple chocolate, chocolate dipped — who makes the best coconut macaroons?
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Where are the best grocery stores in Atlanta?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I hear often from people who complain about the supermarkets near them, or, more to the point, the lack of choice in the supermarkets near them.
Folks south of I-20 pine for a Whole Foods or a big farmers’ market like Harry’s or DeKalb. Some of my neighbors in Cobb regularly drive to the DeKalb Farmers Market because there’s nothing else quite like it out our way. And many neighborhoods are in what’s called a food desert, with few, if any, grocery stores that sell fresh vegetables and fruit. Instead, residents rely on convenience stores that stock mostly processed foods for their main source of food.
And then there’s Buckhead. Throw a rock and you hit a supermarket, but not just a run-of-the-mill one. Fresh Market, Whole Foods, Publix and Kroger are all there. EatZi’s used to be, until the chain closed most of its stores. Many smaller stores, like Souper Jenny’s and Savor, offer gourmet takeout. There’s a Wal-Mart Supercenter that’s just on the outskirts, a couple of blocks from Via Elisa and its fresh pasta, tomato sauces and Italian gourmet foods.
And Kroger may be considering opening a prototype natural/organic foods store, Fresh Fare, at the site now occupied by Disco Kroger, in the shopping center at Piedmont and Peachtree. (Next to the old Limelight, for you longtime Atlantans.)
What’s the grocery shopping situation like in your neighborhood? What kind of stores would you like to see more of? Or would you just change what the existing stores carry?
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