Meyer Lemons and Greek Yogurt

One of the beauties of living in the 21st Century is the availability of  foods.  I don't mean the types conconcted at some food lab in New Jersey, but foods from other areas of the country and the world....If a recipe calls for Meyers Lemon...no problem if you live in a fairly populated area and have literally dozens of grocery stores available within a ten mile radius. No more having to go to Greece for Greek Yogurt....it's now prolific on store shelves. I remember having a new student arriving from Russia many years ago to find that there were literally dozens of types of ice cream.  She had only heard of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. (No Bubblegum flavor there!) In the United States we have the luxury of being able to find endless quantities  and varieties of food from both near and far.  There was a time years ago when many food were only available during a very short season. Now with advanced transportation, freezers and such, those days have gone by. Do you know I can actually remember the first time I ever tasted pizza ? I was about 7 years old and it was offered to me at a friend's house.  It seemed like an exotic offering...I am sure most kids taste pizza shortly after their teeth start coming in.  Oh the varieties of restaurants we now have...Thai, Indian, Somalian, Vietnamese...the list goes on...no doubt influenced by the influx of immigrants..We get bored with foods and want endless variety...pages of offerings on menus. Cookbooks galore, right down to highly specific ones such as 25 Tasty Turnip Recipes. (just kidding). Now with online recipe sources, one could cook chicken in a ne way 365 days a year and never repeat...I remeber as a child being taken to a bakery in Chelsea to watch real bagels being made. They were not widely available outside of Jewish neighborhoods.Now they are as mainstream as apple pie. Maybe with all the foods we now have at our fingertips, we should go back to saying Grace for this bounty...whether to your God, or Goddess, or Mother Earth, or Human Enterprise...but just stop and give it a thought now and then...especially in a world where malnutrition and starvation still exist...out of our view.