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Article: Gourmet Not Just for Connoisseurs
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- January 15, 2001
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MALCOLM FOSTER, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
01-15-2001
Gourmet Not Just for Connoisseurs
Picked wild in a Bulgarian forest, prized chantarelle mushrooms are packed into crates, flown to Paris, then to a refrigerated warehouse in New Jersey -- filling Web site orders in days.
In a cheese cellar in Nantes, France, a computer screen shows a visitor to Cheese-online.com wants a seven-pound wheel of brie. It's whisked to the customer's doorstep in Cincinnati for $100.
Shoppers at D'Agostino Supermarkets in New York pick from 15,000 specialty items -- from yellow Caribbean starfruit to $75 Italian balsamic vinegar aged for 20 years.
Gourmet isn't just for connoisseurs anymore.
Whether it's ...