Cooking & Baking

I used to ship at a neighborhood market, the Sunshine Supermarket, in the early 1970s, and I don't recall it being as rustic as you describe. We did get our meat from the meat counter where it was displayed and you could pick out exactly which piece you wanted, and I recall it being wrapped in "butcher paper" which was white but waxed on one side. I loved our butcher, who also owned the market. His name was I.J. "Jack" Schvid. He is long gone now, and may his afterlife be as happy as he made his customers. After we moved, we shopped at another neighborhood market, Len's Super Val-U. It was a little bigger, but it boasted an in-store bakery. I do remember that this store was probably the first one I shopped at that had its meat wrapped in plastic wrap on styrofoam trays. We rarely went there ear;y in the day though, and for one specific reason---we learned from a friend that the baker had fresh hot pumpernickel bread and would sell it to you unsliced if you went there late at night when he was taking it out of the oven. There is nothing better than fresh hot pumpernickel, slathered with butter!I can still taste that....