>But let me defend the honor of Berkeley: "foofy food masquerading as
>progressive politics" indeed! I've never yet heard anyone claim that going
>to Chez Panisse transforms anything other than your stomach...
A few years ago when I was visiting Berkeley, my host enthused about Alice Waters' conviction that growing exotic lettuces would transform the consciousness and life circumstances of the urban poor.
>Andronicos, however, is very close to my image of food distribution in a
>socialist utopia--with one exception: those pesky cash registers up at the
>front of the store...
What I've heard - Patrick? Chuck? Jordan? Kirsten? - was that Berkeley's older poor, unable to afford the new food regime, ride the bus for an hour or more to Oakland to shop.
Doug