Fairway

Now one of the coolest things about living in New York is the Fairway at 125th street. You can buy anything, but without the fancy-pants gourmet attitude. Less crowded than Zabar's or Fairway at 72nd, it has an aisle dedicated to olive oil and hot sauce, a massive olive bar, and 45' of wall cases devoted to cheese. Instead of cooler cases for meats, there is a giant, refrigerated "cold room" with the fish, meat, flowers and eggs. It has the usually array of ethnic spices, European spreads, and Latin veggies that any NYC store has, but huge by NYC standards, warren-like in its floor plan and crammed like a bodega. All their organic coffee is fair trade, meaning the farmers get more than 1c a pound for their product. I took a bunch of pictures, before security followed me and said, "What'cha takin' pitcha's for?" Apparently, corporate grocery spying is a big deal. So I asked the corporate office if I could use my pictures in this blog, but they didn't get back to me. :(