Whole Foods is Roasting!

Yahoo! At the Pearl Street Whole Foods, the chile roaster is cranking away today in the parking lot, roasting wonderful Hatch green chiles from New Mexico. Packages of the finished product are in the refrigerated case in the produce department, where they keep the salsa. And for the first time in my experience there, the containers are marked mild, medium, or hot. In the past, the staff hasn't been able to tell me what they were, although that made things a rather fun crapshoot. It's even better when you can talk with someone who can go beyond mild, medium, or hot to tell you that they're Big Jims, Sandias, any number of other varieties. We might find that experience soon, once roasted chiles turn up at the Boulder Farmers Market. Yes!