One of the problems of everyday life, even if you master the language decently, is how to ask for... So as I want a confortable chair to sit and enjoy the afternoon shadow with a book or write the blog, etc. How do you ask for it? I need soemething to lean in the courtyard, I want a reclining chair, a rocking chair, either too generic or too specific, the attendant looks at you with strained eyes and slowly says, no we do not have those.
They really did not. I went around three Antiques shops, they do not sell old beautiful furniture, but just old, second hand stuff, but they did not have anything for outside. Thus today I will probably go to Home Depot a chain of department stores specializing in everything for the house.
In the meantime I am trying to find my way around the lifestyle in this area of california, of Los Angeles.
Yesterday I went to visit a piece of history of Southern California, the first Trader Joe's store ever opened in 1958. Trader Joe's in a sense stands to Southern California as Dunkin' Donuts stands for New England, a philosophy of eating. But Dunkin' Donuts is a fast food chain providing caffeine saturated fat and sugar, Trader Joe's is a chain of quality and foreign food supermarkets dressed in hawayan shirt. It started in the sixties to market food from abroad with a focus on quality. They have a Hawayan logo and shirts that was introduced to distinguish the company from rival food chains.
I was not particularly impressed by the store itself, but I suppose that forty years later all chains have learned to have their quality section...
Open food market with fresh product is a political statement. http://www.pasadenafarmersmarket.org/ Every tuesday and saturday there is a farmer's market. I long to go and have a look. They say that tomatoes are tasty, I want to check that out.
In the meantime at the Huntington, this morning upon entering the library there was a basket of free lemons, very tasty and juicy, from the botanic garden.
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