While I was out getting some grocery necessities from my small neighborhood store, I saw this product in one of the coolers:
This is in Minnesota, of course. As a person who grew up about 45 minutes from Ithaca, it caught my eye.
I don't know if that name means as much to other people in these parts. However, I have repeatedly found that Ithaca is the one place in the interior of New York State that people in Minnesota seem to know about — so maybe the name will work even here.
Ithaca Craft Hummus started by selling at the Ithaca Farmers Market.
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Hummus Far from Home
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Odysseus and Penelope approve.
I remember how I flipped when I first saw Oikos yogurt in a supermarket.
Where is Oikos from?
Another local/nonlocal angle for me is Chobani... it's made in a small town that was part of the sports league my tiny town played in.
Oikos is the ancient Greek word for “household.” It’s where we get eco-. Basically, a house and all its people (family and slaves — and slaves had a higher status in the Homeric world than, say, itinerant laborers, because they were part of an oikos). The idea of the oikos is esp. important in the Odyssey. The cover of the Stanley Lombardo translation makes the point with the photo Earthrise, the earth as seen from the moon. Odysseus, phone home.
That’s much more than you asked, but I couldn’t help myself.
Cool!
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