Chametz quest (Paper and Provisions)

[magid]

I haven't yet eaten chametz. The plan: get a new 50-lb bag of flour from Paper and Provisions, make challah and (chicken and) dumplings for Shabbat.

Alas, Paper and Provisions could not help me: they had run out of flour. This was sad enough (I resorted to a 5-lb bag from Market Basket next door), but even worse was the other news: they're closing the Somerville (Union Square) location, as of May 10. Ack! Yes, they're going to keep their Watertown location (128 Waltham St.; I haven't mapquested to find out just how inconvenient that's going to be, though I hope it's at least near Russo's, so I can get nice, cheap produce at the same time).

I hope they'll have a bag of flour for me next week.

Comments

[gingicat]

Here's the list of locations: http://www.perkins1.com/locations.htm

We should tell your parents about the Worcester one. :)

[ceo]

I've been to the Watertown store, it's about half a mile out of Watertown Square towards Waltham. It's even more industrial-ugly than the Somerville store.

I'm almost through the 50# of bread flour I got last fall. Of course, I make a lot less bread than you do.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link; I didn't realize they had more than one other location :-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Hard to imagine a place more industrial-ugly than the Somerville location, I have to admit (and the reason they didn't have any flour for me is apparently some little critters had gotten into the bags they had, too....).

I use about 200 lb of flour/year. I think the majority of that is bread, since I don't bake much. Mentally, anyway, it's less nuisance to make decent bread than to go find it in the stores (and considerably cheaper, compared to the snazzy loaves I'm most interested in buying once I find nice bread).

[magid.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it sounds like it's not far from Russo's, too. At least my two most useful Watertown shopping destinations are reasonably close to one another.