1:00 pm
December 7, 2010


It all started two nights ago.
It was the fourth night of Chanukah.
We have a couple Menorah's here at the house,
but I did not have a set of my own candles.
Shame on me! Following the Hillcrest Farmers' Market on Sunday,
9 am-2 pm, I had this nagging feeling that I wanted
to light my own chanukah candles.

I went to Whole Foods Market Hillcrest.
I would have delighted to buy the candles there.
They had two kinds. The first sold for $4.99.
They was totally sold out. another set of candles
were 100% beeswax in a very lovely box but sold for $23.99.
I could see burning that much money to support a good company,
that was doing conscious commerce, but in that moment,
$4.99 seemed a bit more in my budget. The team member
was helpful and went back to check if they had more of
the less expensive candles. Nope.

I have done some special projects for the store. Years
ago, Anthony Zolezzi, the famed entrepeneur
and co-creator of Greenopolis and
Oceanopolis,
gave me $500.00 from his Family Farm Non-profit to back a project I did.
I spend more than two months for many Sundays, carrying
unsold locally grown, fresh picked organic strawberries
into that Whole Foods Market. The frangrance was overwhelming.
The customers who imbibed became lifelong friends. That
event will one day make the Guinnesss book for the freshest
strawberries ever to be sold in a Whole Foods Market.
Another time, when I wanted to go to Tecate to feed children
organic fruit, my old friend Michael Besancon, my original
avocado sandwich maker, O.K.'ed another $500.00 within 24 hours
so I could pay my expenses to go to the Foundation La Puerta
World Environment Day event.

I still know a few of the employees at the Hillcrest Whole Foods Market.
I was tempted to call down the store Team Manager and see if I could make a deal,but I just did not have the oil in my own lamp to have that communication. I left the store a bit frustrated, but my resolve to find
a set of candles was willfully intact.

Next I stopped at the Safeway store in my neighborhood,
located a few blocks from San Diego State University.
I checked the shelf. No Chanukah Candles.
THere did have some Shabbat Candles, not the large size
I wanted but I felt I simply had to satisfy my impulse to buy
something so I bought three boxes. The check out man told me they had
Chanukah candles but they were all sold out. He directed me to
another part of the store where an additinal assortment of
Jewish foods were specially featured. I trekked the distance
across this food desert of goods that would hardly pass
Food Safety in my life. I again came away empty handed.
but my religious appetite was not to be quenched without the flame.

It was then I headed for The Place.

Aw, The Place! Of course, a Jewish grocery and restaurant not far ahead,
a place of service to the local community: but would they have
Chanukah candles on the fourth night?????

A man greeted me near the door as I entered.
He said, "Shalom Alechem!" The corners of his tzitzi
were hanging out and he was wearing a Yamulkah,
a Jewish beanie.

"Do you have chanukah candles?" I asked.

Yureka! Gan Eden!
(...the promised land..)...I found it!
There were no less that seven boxes left
plus a big box of Shabbos Candles.
You can't have enough of those,
so I bought one of the big boxes, knowing
I needed some extra blessings during these dark days.

My bill came to about $11.00. I now had enough
Shabbot candles to last until the Messiah came,
Mosiach to us Yids.

I noticed a number of people eating. There were
also trays of jelly dougnnuts, and sort of wondered
what the connection was between Chanukah and
eating the tradition of eating doughnuts.

I stopped to talk to the man who had greeted me so
hamishly--friendly. He told me he was new in town.
He was working the check out and doing assorted jobs.
He was the Mashgiach, the one who is the gatekeeper
of "Kosher only" coming into the store.

He said he was from Crown Heights in New York.
My nephew Morris Becker lives there in another part
of Brooklyn, so I asked
if he knew him. He thought maybe the name was familiar.

There was a bit of rain drops falling as I left,
and my heart was half longing for something from my past,

It was Eva Becker, my niece who had originally
led me to the promised land of The Place.
Eva is a great science high school teaching in L.A.
She also takes after my side of the family that leans
toward organic although eating a jelly doughnut in the
name of being one with the Tribe on Chanukah,
would not be beyond Eva in spite of the calories.


MORE TO WRITE....

In Part two...the next night,
after a hard day at home,
I decide to return to the scene
of the Candles. Wanting to make
The Place more my place, I brought
in some of my favorite foods from
Eden Organics.

I was hoping to find a friendly face again
and lo and behold, there he was the Mashgiach.
I introduced myself and told him I wanted to write
a story about the Jelly Doughnuts. Why was it
they were a Chanukah tradition?

He told me more of his story.
His name was Yosef. He had recently found
his new wife and because she lived in the nieghborhood,
he moved here from New York. It turned out he
lived right down the street from the Enchanted Garden,
my home. Then, the plot thickens.....


I got to get ready for acupuncture.
Just spoke to Sua Ann Potter of the Eden Organic foods
and Amy who is sending Morris Darey, the owner of The Place
a Catalogue.

To BE CONTINUED...


A POEM
goes here...
Unfinished...with my Ancestors...



THE PLACE
The Place-Glatt Kosher Market Restaurant
6499 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92115-2646 (619) 286-6499 ?


EDEN CATALOGUE

http://www.edenfoods.com/mediacenter/catalog.php

EDEN FOODS
A BPA PIONEER
http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/07/eden-foods-a-bpa-free-pioneer.html

RELATED
JEWISH GLOSSARY
http://www.harryc.com/jewish-glossary.htm


Mashgiach - Inspector, overseer or supervisor of Kashruth in restaurants & hotels.

SENATOR FEINSTEIN URGES
CONSUMERS TO VOTE WITH
THEIR POCKETBOOKS
By REFUSING TO PURCHASE
PRODUCTS THAT CONTAIN BPA

"Senator Feinstein, also a key champion of the proposed ban, disappointedly but with determination as well said:

The evidence against BPA is mounting, especially its harmful effects on babies and children who are still developing. I very much regret that the chemical industry puts a higher priority on selling chemicals than on the health of infants. I will not cease in my efforts to remove BPA from products where it can harm human health, and I urge consumers to vote with their pocketbooks by refusing to purchase products that contain BPA."

http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2010/11/26/chemical-industry-proposed-law-to-protec...

QUOTES FROM SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN
MADE ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE
IN BEHALF OF BABIES TAKING IN BPA DANGEROUS CHEMICAL

http://www.saferstates.com/2010/11/bpa.html



SENATOR FEINSTEIN URGED TO STOP BLOCKING
FOOD SAFETY; SEN DiNGELL WRITES THIS LETTER

Read his letter here:

http://usfoodtrace.com/blog/dingell-tells-feinstein-to-stop-blocking-s510.php

MORE ON THE HONORABLE DIANE FEINSTEIN,
THE FIRST WOMAN SENATOR
http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Dianne_Feinstein


I SEE AND SEED

Senator Feinstein, U.S. Senator from California
will honor Eden Food's Michael Potter for his stand
on BPA Free lined cans. Eden Organic Foods
was one of the first companies
in the U.S. to pioneer a BPA Lining Free Can in spite
of 14% higher costs of production. Michael Potter
did this because he could not see hurting people
and innocent babies just to make a dollar.
He pursued the creation of the can with a manufacturer
as early as the late 90's.


I SEE AND SEED

Morris Darey of The Place to be honored for increasing
sales of BPA Free cans to local San DIego Jewish Community.


RELATED

HIP SURGERY PRAISE
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1706724


STRETCH FOR REAL FOOD SAFETY
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1729422


THE ENCHANTED GARDEN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY
GROWING GROUNDS ON FACEBOOK ASKS YOU TO COME
AND GARDEN

We need you to eat from our kitchen wholesome foods,
help our plants grow through your good intentions,
and help us buy this land to be placed in a Trust to
make a museum some day about the History of Peace on Earth.





JOIN THE ENCHANTED GARDEN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY
ON FACEBOOK

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118218208198816


GIVE $.99 of your hard earned money to help us
build a Trust with our Future.

Use the Paypal Here
http://pr4progress.org/plantyourdream/?page_id=715



MY DAD IS IN THIS VIDEO



ADDED
BPA APP
TO BE MADE BY DRUMBEAT MEMBER
ANDREW REIFF?

BPA APP?

Which cans have BPA, and
which do not.

Fulfilling the coaching of Senator Dianne Feinstein

IS BPA REALLY THAT BAD?
http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/index.php/Bpa

added
December 17, 2010
6:25 am

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