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I've just moved this summer into Center City Philadelphia, so all my shopping habits are under adjustment. Instead of following my time-honored suburban method, of making up a week's worth of menus, then going to the grocery store and buying what I need to fix those meals, I now get off the train right @ the Reading Terminal Market, and can pick up fresh food daily. So, like Peter, I'm shifting my cooking to begin w/ the ingredients, and then find a recipe for them, rather than my old habit of working in the other direction. The market  is filled w/ all sorts of local food (including raw milk! I thought that was illegal!) that I've never tried, and I plan to try 'em all.

I am also surrounded by wonderful (new-to-me) restaurants--this weekend, I discovered a wonderful gorgonzola, pear and sunflower seed flat bread @ Audrey Claire's, a BYOB in the Rittenhouse Square area...

Yum.