Most new mom's have one favorite thing, say the coffee from Oslo or walking aimlessly through Target or maybe sleep (but let's be realistic), and that one favorite thing gets them through the rough days, weeks, months of the begining of their little one's life. My one favorite thing is going to the Fairway Supermarket in Red Hook. Really. It makes me so happy that I could cry. In the begining I would make excuses, like "oh, wow, are we out of gourmet olives again...you know where they have great gourmet olives...?" Now, however, I don't even make excuses and sometimes I don't even buy anything. I just go and walk around. Sad. I know.
I've always been a supermarket person, maybe because living in this city usually means buying your groceries at the nearest deli or bodega, so supermarkets, real supermarkets, are a luxury. The Fairway in Red Hook is like going on vacation. It's huge and it has lots of yummy samples, like a gazillion types of olives and mountains of cheeses from all over the world. The best part, of course, is the little cafe in the back, with the outdoor seating right on the harbor. Red Hook has a sort of other-worldy feeling or at least other-worldly by New York standards. Surrounded by water, with a briny smell (on good days), an ocean breeze, cobble stone and waterfront warehouses it's easy to forget the rush, rush urban, chock-a-block city I live in and feel like I could be somewhere else, even if that somewhere is well, pretty much like Massachusetts.
Today was a good day. Welcome to Otherhood.
2 comments:
My favorite thing was to catch the L train to 6th ave at 7AM Sunday morning, have a bagel at Murrays, get an espresso machiatto at Joe the Art of Coffee and then go grocery shopping at Whole Foods. I love manhattan early on Sunday mornings, it's so quiet.
Hi DD. I totally should have said "most new parents.." My bad. Mmmmm. Machiatto. These days I rarely make it onto the L train.
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