Photo, blog post by John Hoff
This meatloaf and various side dishes, served at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, was allegedly a favorite of Elvis.
I ask you, does this dish look fit for a king?
Which doesn't quite bring me to the subject at hand. Back in 2009, Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine (mspmag.com) ran a story about a guy named Glenn Ford of Praxis Marketplace.
Click here for a PDF image of that story.
Ford was planning a chain of grocery stores which would be a source of "jobs, pride, power, community renewal, particularly in ethnic urban communities." The article said Ford was planning to open the first Praxis Marketplace in North Minneapolis.
At the time this article appeared, I thought to myself, huh? Who is this guy Glenn Ford? Is he for real? Is he going to do what he promises or is he a flim flam artist? I ripped the article out of the magazine and had it on my fridge for the longest time. For a while my fridge was a source of long-term "to do" lists.
Eventually, I took the article off the fridge and made it into a PDF file, which has been floating on my virtual desktop for a couple years, now. I look at the icons on my desktop and there's the little face of Glenn Ford, holding three bell peppers and touting his vision of grocery stores.
Today I'm snowed in and writing stuff that will auto-publish in the middle of the day on Monday. I can approach stories that have sat upon my mental back burner for a while, cooking.
So today it's time to ask the question, "Where are the Praxis Marketplace stores promised in 2009 by Glenn Ford?"
Ford, you see, has a vision...
