Kids have been conditioned to expect things sweet. And smooth. And perfectly homogenized. This is a cultural phenomenon especially prevelant here in the United States where families simply do not make much food from scratch at home any more. Whole ingredients have become a rarity in favor of processed foods out of boxes. Consequently I […]
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Some of you may remember my little dust-up with a clerk in the bulk section at Whole Foods over steel cut oats. What it boiled down to was, the label on the bin said “steel cut oat groats,” but what was inside the bin was actually whole oats. Since whole oats was not what I […]
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I am not afraid to use the Customer Service desk at Whole Foods. In fact, I’ve spent a good deal of time at the Customer Service desk. So if you are at Whole Foods and hear over the loudspeaker, “Someone from the grocery team to Customer Service to assist a customer,” that’s probably because I […]
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