Confession: I Miss Going to the Grocery Store To Buy My Own Food
The pleasure of picking out ingredients helps me feel in control of my life and prepared for anything
There are lots of basic things about being an adult that I’ve never quite mastered.
Planning menus and shopping for my own food is not one of them.
I love coming up with a diverse mix of recipes each week, making my list, and wandering through the produce section surveying my options. Selecting leeks in delicious anticipation of sautéing them to buttery softness. Peering inside a pint of raspberries to make sure they’re fresh enough to provide the perfect topper of bright, firm sweetness for my bowl of yogurt or oatmeal. I take great pleasure in knowing every item I decide to buy might lead me down a different road of culinary inspiration, depending on my mood.
I enjoy chatting with the clerks at my local stores who all know and remember me because I’m a frequent customer, asking them about their families, running into people from my neighborhood and holding the doors for them so they can push their strollers inside the store.
