Yes, we lived well before Whole Foods and the like. Do you remember Oakville Market, on Pacific off Polk? Quite extraordinary stuff at comparable prices. I remember once remonstrating a deli person for using so much interface plastic between slices of >$20/prosciutto.
Prices there were outta sight.
Petrini was excellent quality, quite a big store.
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Another good reason to season everything with powdered Xanax.
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I remember Petrini’s, mostly in Walnut Creek and Moraga and their quality in groceries . Piedmont Ave Market in Oakland was closer to us and we shopped there, but would visit a Petrini’s if we were venturing mainly in CoCo. Narsai David would talk them and Andronico’s upon his radio segments.
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I admire that. I come from a long line of mentally ill and suicidal alcoholics - I never went back home for holidays after I left for college in 1970. No regrets and no apologies.
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I’m a pretty compliant client. Say “do this!” and I do.
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You gotta do what you gotta do and more 
power to you! Remember the best and forget the rest and keep on keepin on’
(insert Mr. Natural—I have no Robert Crumb image to post)
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You are inspiring me to make my own too! Maybe chicken, though.
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Are the cranberries a bit cooked first? Trying to picture this. It sounds good.
I hear you. My late mother had a technologically sophisticated surgery at a top-tier hospital in another city. Also terrible food, but because she was willing to eat it after she got out of a stay in the ICU I took it as a positive.
Later in the course of her illness, the community hospital where she stayed for a bit had food she would have enjoyed. But by then she rarely wished to eat. Still saddens me.
The US healthcare system can and should do better in terms of nourishing the folks in its care. Sigh.
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Oh, yes, one of my m-i-l’s specialties. And yes, cooked or canned cranberries.
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I agree with this. Didn’t get any and didn’t care.
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I remember going to Petrini with my aunt. One of their conceits was packaged produce, before packaged produce was common. Everything neat and tidily in plastic wrapped trays. Fine if you wanted the number and size they put together. But considered very modern in the late '50s.
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Interesting! This one has them raw but macerated. https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/cranberry-fluff-salad/
And canned here: https://www.mybakingaddiction.com/cranberry-fluff/
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For many years I lived in Mill Valley and Sausalito so would go to Petrini in Greenbrae. I used to be more impatient and once was there and didn’t want to drive around and around looking for a parking space.
I only needed 2 items so parked in a red zone in front, leaving my daughter (junior high age) in the car.
When I got back to the car there was a ticket. My daughter said she begged the policeman not to ticket, told him I would beat her if the car got ticketed. He gave her the phone number to report child abuse if that occurred!
I never parked in a red zone again.
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Wow, sounds wonderful! I couldn’t have dreamed of anything remotely similar with my 3 joint replacements!
I expected 1.0. -1.5 g. too. I try to stay around 2.0. I love salt and salty things. - but this was awful. I guess it’s because I’ve become selective on what I spend my “salt allowance “ on every day.
I took a bad ladder fall and, among other things, tore off the supraspinatus tendon and had a couple of linear tears in the infraspinatus. Luckily on my left/non-dom arm.
The shoulder doc couldn’t repair until I was walking with a cane only in my right hand, which took a bit over 11 months (*). If we went over 12 months he wouldn’t bother with trying finding the end of the tendon, so I slid in under the wire. He and the leg surgeon coordinated and put off an upcoming “just one more” operation on my leg to have time for the shoulder work and rehab.
I do still have limited ROM but at least I can raise/lower my left arm and pretty much use it like I used to. Not his fault - by 11 months he didn’t have a lot of tendon left to work with.
I didn’t know it before selecting him, but apparently this guy has quite the reputation. I had 4 different therapists over that first 11 months while working on the leg. As they asked me in turn who’d do my shoulder, they each commented something like, “Oh, fantastic; his patients always recover so well!”.
I guess I got lucky, although I did have a personal reco from a friend, as well as my leg guy’s opinion of him.
(*) I pop in from time to time just to say “Hi” to the 2 therapists still there. I have the hospital record for most consecutive months of PT at 15, generally 3 days a week. Mainly that was the leg.
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This version is fresh and uncooked cranberries. It’s got quite a nice punch to it, between the sweetness of the pineapple and tart from the crans, plus some crunch from the crans being uncooked. I don’t think it’s written down anywhere but if I see anything similar online I’ll shoot you a PM.
I’ve learned that my unsweetened whip cream comment was wrong, by the way. The daughter who put it together said Grammy told her an 8-ounce tub of Cool Whip. She knows I’m kind of biased against that stuff, so she made it with heavy cream, but trying to make it the same as Grammy does, she used confectioner’s sugar while whipping.
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I’ve been pretty lucky. The closest hospital is just down the street and I was there for a couple of weeks in August 2008, and the food was really quite good, both the patient in-room service and cafeteria food the wife and kids would get while visiting. My wife was there about 6 weeks across 2017-18 and it was still all good, and my MIL is there now, and same story.
But I’ve seen the other side of the coin, too. I ended up needing to be transported to another hospital during that Aug`08 episode, and that place had lousy food. I’ve had better food in the field from Army mess tents.
