Whole (lotta) Foods...

I have been to Whole Foods only on occasion...I've gone there for very specific reasons...maybe accompanying a friend or to get a quick bite. I went in yesterday for the first time for "real" grocery shopping. That in the process of "associative shopping," I picked up random stuff and my bill totaled 80-odd dollars is another matter altogether and will be dealt with appropriately in a post on financial catharsis; for now, I must relate what I felt as I wended my way through aisle after aisle arrayed with a cornucopia of "gastronomical delights."

And I thought to myself, oh my god, what a great amount of food for granola-eating set of Cambridge Mass. [and surroundings...]...while, yes you guessed what I am going to say, so many of the world have to fight for food, as such reports have surfaced again, with major economists weighing in also. I do not really know the economics of all this, especially the global economics, but I do remember the feeling and popular expression in India, that "khana paida karne waala hi bhookha rehta hai" (the grower/producer of food goes hungry).

Here I was looking at different kinds of apples, apricots, pluots, avocados, at rows upon rows f cereals, granola bars, Icelandic and Greek yogurts, Asian salads...and I thought, how much of a (corporate) effort in sourcing and stocking this one place (and a few others like it)...how much of food in this one place...and how little in so many others...