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This recall of deli items that contain bowtie pasta was not in the FDA's weekly digest of food recalls and advisories and is not yet showing up on the FDA's searchable page, but it was issued yesterday by Albertsons Companies:

"Albertsons Companies Saturday, Sept. 27 announced a recall on select store-made deli items containing bowtie pasta for possible listeria monocytogenes contamination.

Five store-made deli items that contain the bowtie pasta manufactured by Nate’s Fine Foods of Roseville were recalled, including Basil Pesto Bowtie Pasta Salad, Grilled Chicken and Basil Pasta, Ready Meals Basil Pesto Bowtie Salad and Randalls Basil Pesto Bowtie Pasta Salad with sell thru dates of Sept. 8 to Sept. 26 and Sept. 11 thru Sept. 29.

The recall was initiated by Fresh Creative Foods, a division of Reser’s Fine Foods and supplier of the bowtie pasta.

“Consumers who have purchased these items are urged not to consume these products and to dispose of them or return the items to their local store for a full refund. The FDA recommends in these cases that anyone who purchased or received any recalled products to use extra vigilance in cleaning and sanitizing any surfaces and containers that may have come in contact with these products to reduce the risk of cross-contamination,” Albertsons officials announced.

The select store-made deli items were available for purchase at the following stores, which have locations in California and 14 other states:

Albertsons

Albertsons Market

Amigos

Andronico’s Community Markets

Carrs-Safeway

Eagle

Pak ‘N Save

Pavilions

Market Street

Randalls

Safeway

Tom Thumb

Vons

Consumers with questions should contact Albertsons Companies’ Customer Service Center at 1-877-723-3929 Monday through Friday from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. PST.

It was nice knowing you Andronico’s. Andronico’s was a local grocery store in the Bay Area, and let’s face it, it was tailored for the wealthy white people - it can be more expensive than WholeFoods. I enjoyed the bakery section of Andronico’s. They had some of the tastiest grocery store bakery stuff. I also liked the hot food bar at the grocery store. But again, everything at the store is pretty expensive. $8.99/lb for the hot food bar. I was trying to buy some ready to eat boxed salad - that includes the forks and dress - and they were selling it for $5.99. Even with 30% off, that’s still pretty expensive for a single salad. There was also a lot of people in the checkout lines, so I just left and went to Safeway.

Freshly posted on Refreshed:

NoCo start-up FoodStar aims to do something about the fact that a staggering 52% of the food grown or raised on US farms winds up in landfills.

Often, a large portion of fruits and vegetables don’t even make it to the shelves under the assumption that consumers won’t purchase them due to cosmetic flaws. FoodStar believes that if customers can get these items at a discounted price, the weight of their less-than-perfect appearance will significantly drop.

The company organizes ”flash” sales with supermarket produce departments for foods that either don’t quite meet aesthetic requirements or are nearing the end of their shelf life. Shoppers sign up at FoodStar’s website to be notified about these sales.

For more information on FoodStar, click here.

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After declaring bankruptcy earlier this year, the Andronico’s Community Market’s branch on Telegraph Avenue will be shutting its doors, the company announced Friday.

“The closing of the Telegraph Avenue store became necessary because the property would have been too difficult to bring up to the standards that our customers expect and deserve,” said Bill Andronico, a member of the family which founded the markets, in a statement released Friday.

While I continue to procrastinate on the post I want to write about the home nosing quick-class I did last weekend, here's a series of pictures I took at the North Berkeley Andronico's.  I had wanted to spend an hour or two at Philz Coffee, but didn't want to pay the meter or look for parking, so I figured I'd park in the Andronico's parking lot (naughty).  

So as to make my infraction less obvious to undercover Andronico's security detail, I figured I'd saunter into the store quickly and make it look like I was actually shopping there.  My eyes immediately locked in on the wine & spirits section.  "Hey daddy, what are you looking for?" they sung out to me.  So I sauntered over innocently and was immediately taken aback by the shelf set.  The spirits/liqueur/champagne section was a good 20-30 feet, and it wasn't just filled with the regular supermarket fare -- i.e. sour mixes, Absolut, Smirnoff, Bailey's, Jack Daniel's, Beafeater's, etc.

I was actually very, very impressed with some of their selections.  The complete Hangar One range was there, in both 750-mL and 375-mL bottles, which I had never seen before.  Next to it were 2 Charbay vodkas.  They had Tito's Handmade Vodka as well.

They had some great picks for bourbon as well, ones that I absolutely didn't expect to see at a supermarket.  St. George Single Malt, Booker's, Woodford Reserve, Basil Hayden's, Maker's 46, Old Potrero Straight Rye (Old Potrero!!! You can't get that at a lot of specialty stores!), Four Roses, Bulleit Rye (new, and on sale for $19.99).

They also had Del Maguey mezcal, No. 209 Gin, Old Potrero Junipero Gin, Tres Agaves tequila and tons of liqueurs that was wasn't expecting to see, like Lillet Blanc, Fernet, Aperol, etc.