Do you make your rent or buy organic grapes? Look, everyone knows about the dirty dozen — fruits and veggies so laden with pesticides they apparently make you die if you even look at them in the grocery store — but seriously, we’re writers up in here. We can’t afford $17 a pound grapes. Pasadena Produce, this tiny market that’s half Greek restaurant, half fresh fruits, veggies, and other free-range, non-GMO, dolphin-safe foodstuffs, somehow sells the same stuff as the box stores for less money. We’re not sure how — we suspect it has something to do with being family-owned and buying seasonally — but when our organic veggies cost less here than conventionally grown ones do at Publix, we’re all in. Pasadena Produce 6801 Gulfport Blvd S, South Pasadena, 33707 727-384-0750 spirosdressing.com
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2015.