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Article: If it's Hay Day, we must be home
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 14, 1988
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WESTPORT, Conn. Homesickness is the down side of our profession. As
much as we love traveling, we miss our dogs, the daily mail and our
own refrigerator.
The other thing we miss is local grocery shopping. Oh, it's
wonderful to snoop through grocery stores away from home. But it can
be frustrating: itinerants such as ourselves, with a pantry no bigger
than a car's trunk, cannot stock up on boudin noir in a Louisiana
butcher shop, or Tillamook cheddar in Oregon, or black bing cherries
in northern Michigan.
One of our favorite rituals upon returning home is going to a
nearby farm market named Hay Day, where we buy a cart full of
vegetables, pies, short-lived herbs, brown eggs, runny ...