do you hate 'corporate' supermarkets?

this lady sure does:
F**K corporate groceries dot net

found it via TOC... a great mag when i actually get a chance to read it...

j3s, the creator and author, is a sometimes poster on LTH. She hasn't posted in a while.

It is an excellent blog.

Best,
Michael

I'd forgotten about that blog(thankfully). It's so culturally-myopic it's hysterical.

After 4 years of hilighting small, independent markets in Chicago j3s is hanging it up. You can read her last post at the site linked in the OP.

I, for one, think she did a great job of promoting mom & pop shops around town. The Chicago blog world will be poorer without her contributions.

Best,
Michael

I avoided her blog because the title was such a turn off. I read her last post and her list of food markets and bakeries, most I'm already familiar with. My family, unlike hers, always prepared fresh foods purchased at the grocery store, first the A & P, then National and then Jewel, and I followed. Mom purchased Japanese ingredients at Star and then Heiwa (now Mitsuwa). Jewel was always accomodating and now there's more choices. I like her passion for fresh foods and her determination to eat fresh foods daily. For her, it's a counter culture stance and it changed her palate.

eatchicago wrote:I, for one, think she did a great job of promoting mom & pop shops around town. The Chicago blog world will be poorer without her contributions.

Perhaps somebody else will pick up where she left off.