By Nancy Van Patten, Marketing/Food Writer   Have you done any of the following in the past three days? –gleefully checked the weather, and then pounced on your favorite black sweater? –dug your pumpkin carving tools out of your catch-all kitchen drawer? –browsed marthastewart.com for autumnal decorating ideas until all you can see is orange? Then [...]

By Nancy Van Patten, Marketing/Food Writer   How do you shop in our store? Are you a wanderer who roams the aisles for hours reading labels, squeezing produce (we see you!) and eyeballing the prepared foods bar? Or are you a bullet shopper, one who comes in on a mission with a list, whips through [...]

By Nancy Van Patten, Marketing/Food Writer   Did you graduate from high school? College? Did you get married, have babies or start a career? Did you travel the world with a hair band? Stick to a linoleum floor in jelly shoes? Cry at the end of “Pretty in Pink?” Learn the line dance to “Thriller?” [...]

By Nancy Van Patten, Marketing/Food Writer   Your team plays tonight and you’ve got tickets! You’re excited. You’ve packed the folding chairs, festooned the car with flapping flags, and iced down a cooler with all the necessary beverages.  You run upstairs and pull out your alumni jersey, slip it over your head and—tug. And wriggle. [...]

by Nancy Van Patten, Marketing/Food Writer This is a re-run of a blog I wrote last year about Will Harris, whose White Oak Pastures provides us with all our delicious grass-fed beef products. This Friday, all Whole Foods Market stores will have grass-fed beef on sale for $3.99 a pound, or a buck a burger. We’ll [...]