Nope. fettucine al burro is fettucine with butter. Alfredo di Lelio added parmesan to his offering for his pregnant wife in 1908, in Rome.
We do grocery shopping and delivery service. For me the problem would be the need to plan, write menus, check inventory and order stock. That is the way to do it right but I don't do it that way. I peruse the ailes. When i find something interesting I think about things I could do with it and put it in the cart. That's why we have so much food stored at the house. There are things we consider basic pantry items and buy them nearly every week or two. Things like onions, tomatoes, potatos, rice, avocados (no kidding,) butter, flour, sugar garlic and so on. I could do that over the phone. I can't peruse the aisles over the phone.
There's two of us. I spent $50 in a Lebanese store on Tuesday, and came home with kalamata olives, dried olives and cracked olives, as well as a large jar of pickled wild cucumbers. Why? I don't know, probably because they were there.
I'd go to the Kroger in Madeira when I was in Ohio. Just wander around the store. I'd ALWAYS come back with some cheese, reduced by 50%, or a tin of something, whatever. I'd be there for ages!
I can’t do that online, though, because I don’t know what to browse for. Online, you have to know “rump roast” or “sumo oranges,” and in the store, I can just happen upon things.
We don’t have a “what’s in season” category, and to scroll through the vegetables…it would take a week!
I will cop to enjoying chatting with the women who work in the grocery stores. I think I have a running dialogue with the various women at my local Kroger; every time I go in, I see these two or those two, and I’ll either ask them for an update on things or they’ll ask me. It’s like a running serial.
