The Great Grocery Store Hunt-5/6/09
The most challenging thing about the project of making every recipe in each month's issue of Gourmet is not making the recipes at all. It's finding all the ingredients required to make those recipes. I primarily shop at 3 different grocery stores each week to find the items I need. Let me give you some reasons of why this is necessary. I've mentioned that Super H Mart is my local Asian grocery that also has an extensive Hispanic foods section. This store is great for produce and hard to find ethnic ingredients. It is not good for cheese or other dairy products and has a limited pasta, cereals, and breads. My closest grocery store is Kroger and is good for cheeses and other dairy products and has pretty good produce section for commonly used vegetables and fruits. Publix is another local grocery store that has lamb, something rarely carried at Kroger, and a much better bakery. Sometimes I've just got to search at all three. For example, for last month's Rhubarb Oran...