We’ve talked (but not enough) about people who live in “food deserts” and who have little or no access to fresh fruits and vegetables and other types of non-processed foods. In one of the comments sections, I noted that a neighborhood not far from me, South Williamsburg, could be considered a food desert until very recently when Ryan Kuonen and other community organizers got a CSA going and some other things. (Disclaimer—I used to be on the board of the organization where Ryan works, a neighborhood advocacy group).

But where I am, in the center of the gentrified Northside, it is almost the opposite problem—there is only organic and expensive food! I was just at the grocery store and I didn’t even have the option to get cheaper apples or bananas, only the fancy kind. Weird problem to have (and not a giant problem, except I am super-broke). It is the Dubai to their desert.

—Snacktime