Apr 21, 1982 ... Volume 73Issue 8. Alfred. New York. Aplil 21,1982. Feature: Kinfolk by Nancy
Cushing. You've probably gone by it on your way somewhere ...
Alfred. New York
Volume 73Issue 8
%m Aplil 21,1982
Feature: Kinfolk by Nancy Cushing
want to sell good food, but we
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don't w a n t to limit ourselves.
a
on your way somewhere else.
We still c a r r y things like soy
4) a
Maybe you've looked in the
flour, b r e w e r ' s yeast,
windows or gone in, or per-
mins and some of the m o r e
haps you're a r e g u l a r
obscure things like soy milk
You've probably gone by it
tomer.
cus-
Whatever the case,
I'll bet you didn't know you
vita-
Upon entering Kinfolk, the first thing anyone is bound to
ported spaghetti, " n e r b e e r "
notice is a large selection of
or fresh g r a p e f r u i t a t Kinfolk.
fresh produce: eggplant, zuc-
" W e a r e not a health food
chini, tomatoes, fresh parsley
s t o r e , " says Elliott Case, one
and ginger, apples, oranges,
proprie-
The
Case).
comes to mind
on
the
obvious
question is
that
"Where
corner of Mill St. and West
does
University, in its p a s t history
from?"
a tobacco shop and later a re-
M a r c h ? ! ) " I t comes from a
cord store before becoming a
broker in Rochester.
natural foods store, has been
Californian,
owned by J e s s e n and Elliott
Florida produce, and then in
since
the
May
1, 1981.
"We
walked in to buy some tofu one day and Chris said, 'do you want to buy the store?' We had been m a n a g i n g
a
health food store in P e r r y , N.Y. for a woman who had gone
out
of
state,"
says
Jessen, " a n d had been thinking of buying our own p l a c e . " Under the new ownership, the store has increased stock to include
this
produce (Zucchini
it's
It's all and
local." " T h i s y e a r ' s the first y e a r anyone in this country's seen a lot of Mexican vegatables being sold h e r e , " adds Elliott. " T h e r e ' s more d e m a n d for food, the s t a n d a r d of living is getting a little higher—people e a t more.
Most people
don't ask where their food's
its
coming f r o m , and don't care.
"authentic
We had these g r e a t Mexican
sauce, s e s a m e oil, and
rice
dyed, so they w e r e n ' t quite as
" T h e r e ' s a real de-
red, so nobody bought ' e m .
it,
so
we'll
not
be
They were the best tomatoes
getting more, and w e ' r e try-
we had all winter...So we got
ing to get more
the tennis
foods.
for
gourmet
Some fancier things,
you know, that you c a n ' t get
balls
back
everybody was h a p p y .
and
1
As for the customers, there
but they could be sold here.
s e e m s to be a good balance
Semolina flour and imported
between the students and the
spaghetti a r e the two biggest
townspeople. "When the stu-
things we've done," continues
dents a r e gone we get m o r e
Jessen.
people t h a t we don't see nor-
The
Kinfolk
owners
they respond to a
feel
clientele
by Carol Neudorfer A 12^i»increase in tuition and room and board c h a r g e s for the 1982-83 school y e a r m a y prevent students from returning to Alfred, especially those seeking financial aid. E f f e c t i v e Sept. 1, full-time students in Alfred's Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nursing, and Business and Administration will pay an annual tuition of $6,450, up $800 from the c u r r e n t y e a r . No tuition increase has been announced in the state-supported College of Ceramics. Room and Board c h a r g e s will rise from $2,270 to $2,450, an increase of $180. Mr. Heywood blamed "sev e r e " d e c r e a s e s in federal student assistance p r o g r a m s and P r e s i d e n t R e a g a n ' s cuts, for Alfred's mounting tuition bills.
mostly
tomatoes in t h a t were
mand
Students to Pay an Extra Grand in '82
in
Mexican
summer
Kinfolk owners busy at work
come
oriental foods" such as fish cakes.
e a
J5
grapefruits-the list goes on.
tors (the other being J e s s e n The store,
u« -O
powder."
could buy oyster sauce, im-
of the store's two
ct
m a l l y , " says J e s s e n , Elliott adding
that
over
half
the
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t h a t is not strictly health food,
townspeople t h a t come in a r e
a
"...people have been in other
over 60. " T h e y ' r e very a w a r e
s
