Ode to Zabars

Now a tourist destination, Zabars has been our home away from home for decades. I can still remember part owner Mr. Klein hawking white peppercorns for $2 a bag; enchanted by his spiel, I bought one.

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In 1945, it was one small storefront; it has now taken over all the faux-half-timbered buildings on the block.

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If you haven't been there, why should you go? and what has this got to do with retirement? Well, the reason you should go is the same one that would make you go to Harrod's Food Halls if you were in London. What this has to do with retirement is that you can take a day just for this and visit--it's vaux un voyage as they say in Michelin.

It is the repository of every single kind of cheese known to humankind

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and the place where you can find 17 different kinds of smoked salmon and have it cut wafer thin by one of a team of fish slicing professionals.

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Blue Mountain coffee, Kalamata olives, cloudberry jam, Mont St. Michel cookies--it's all there.

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 It's an appetizing store that takes you back to a time when all food was fresh and weighed for you by real people, where you can see stacks of empty caviar tins outside on New Year's Day but where you can also get the best price on your rye bread. 

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