“Cooked” my very first meal in our new place in Seattle… we walked to the Pike Place Market and bought Dungeness crab… even got the guy to knock a buck a pound off the price, to $4.
It was so good, especially with a lovely Chinook sauvignon blanc… I really love Chinook winery, run by one of the pioneer women winemakers in Washington. Kay Simon is one of the few vintners still committed to that underappreciated varietal, semillon. Used to be able to find the absolutely awesome L’Ecole No. 41 semillon in Memphis… ask for it, it’s great.
Another bit of welcome culture shock: yes, you can buy wine in grocery stores here. Why, oh why can you not do that in Memphis??
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Responses to “Getting crabby at the Market”
January 9th, 2007 at 10:07 am
That was something that was a big shock to me when I moved to California - finding something other than beer in the grocery store. If I wanted a bottle of wine, all I had to do was walk down to my local Safeway or Albertson’s. They also don’t have the silly blue-light laws which dictate that you can’t buy it before noon on a Sunday.
I’m not entirely sure what the reasoning is for not allowing grocery stores to sell anything over a certain alcohol content. Liquor stores in Memphis aren’t allowed to sell anything that ISN’T alcoholic. Funny, that. I’ve grown so accustomed to BevMo! out here 
January 9th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Other than states that have ABC stores, TN is one of the most expensive places to buy wine & liquor. Just think how ironic it is that you can’t even buy Jack Daniel’s where it’s distilled because it’s a dry county!
I still remember the night in Oct. 1974, that I spent in the emergency room at the regional hospital in Kent, WA, having had a reaction to Dungeness crab! It sure was good until I found out I was allergic to it. At least it’s only crab & not all shellfish, tho.
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