Feature: Kinfolk - AURA - Alfred University

Alfred. New York

Volume 73Issue 8

%m Aplil 21,1982

Feature: Kinfolk by Nancy Cushing

want to sell good food, but we

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don't w a n t to limit ourselves.

a

on your way somewhere else.

We still c a r r y things like soy

4) a

Maybe you've looked in the

flour, b r e w e r ' s yeast,

windows or gone in, or per-

mins and some of the m o r e

haps you're a r e g u l a r

obscure things like soy milk

You've probably gone by it

tomer.

cus-

Whatever the case,

I'll bet you didn't know you

vita-

Upon entering Kinfolk, the first thing anyone is bound to

ported spaghetti, " n e r b e e r "

notice is a large selection of

or fresh g r a p e f r u i t a t Kinfolk.

fresh produce: eggplant, zuc-

" W e a r e not a health food

chini, tomatoes, fresh parsley

s t o r e , " says Elliott Case, one

and ginger, apples, oranges,

proprie-

The

Case).

comes to mind

on

the

obvious

question is

that

"Where

corner of Mill St. and West

does

University, in its p a s t history

from?"

a tobacco shop and later a re-

M a r c h ? ! ) " I t comes from a

cord store before becoming a

broker in Rochester.

natural foods store, has been

Californian,

owned by J e s s e n and Elliott

Florida produce, and then in

since

the

May

1, 1981.

"We

walked in to buy some tofu one day and Chris said, 'do you want to buy the store?' We had been m a n a g i n g

a

health food store in P e r r y , N.Y. for a woman who had gone

out

of

state,"

says

Jessen, " a n d had been thinking of buying our own p l a c e . " Under the new ownership, the store has increased stock to include

this

produce (Zucchini

it's

It's all and

local." " T h i s y e a r ' s the first y e a r anyone in this country's seen a lot of Mexican vegatables being sold h e r e , " adds Elliott. " T h e r e ' s more d e m a n d for food, the s t a n d a r d of living is getting a little higher—people e a t more.

Most people

don't ask where their food's

its

coming f r o m , and don't care.

"authentic

We had these g r e a t Mexican

sauce, s e s a m e oil, and

rice

dyed, so they w e r e n ' t quite as

" T h e r e ' s a real de-

red, so nobody bought ' e m .

it,

so

we'll

not

be

They were the best tomatoes

getting more, and w e ' r e try-

we had all winter...So we got

ing to get more

the tennis

foods.

for

gourmet

Some fancier things,

you know, that you c a n ' t get

balls

back

everybody was h a p p y .

and

1

As for the customers, there

but they could be sold here.

s e e m s to be a good balance

Semolina flour and imported

between the students and the

spaghetti a r e the two biggest

townspeople. "When the stu-

things we've done," continues

dents a r e gone we get m o r e

Jessen.

people t h a t we don't see nor-

The

Kinfolk

owners

they respond to a

feel

clientele

by Carol Neudorfer A 12^i»increase in tuition and room and board c h a r g e s for the 1982-83 school y e a r m a y prevent students from returning to Alfred, especially those seeking financial aid. E f f e c t i v e Sept. 1, full-time students in Alfred's Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nursing, and Business and Administration will pay an annual tuition of $6,450, up $800 from the c u r r e n t y e a r . No tuition increase has been announced in the state-supported College of Ceramics. Room and Board c h a r g e s will rise from $2,270 to $2,450, an increase of $180. Mr. Heywood blamed "sev e r e " d e c r e a s e s in federal student assistance p r o g r a m s and P r e s i d e n t R e a g a n ' s cuts, for Alfred's mounting tuition bills.

mostly

tomatoes in t h a t were

mand

Students to Pay an Extra Grand in '82

in

Mexican

summer

Kinfolk owners busy at work

come

oriental foods" such as fish cakes.

e a

J5

grapefruits-the list goes on.

tors (the other being J e s s e n The store,

u« -O

powder."

could buy oyster sauce, im-

of the store's two

ct

m a l l y , " says J e s s e n , Elliott adding

that

over

half

the

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t h a t is not strictly health food,

townspeople t h a t come in a r e

a

"...people have been in other

over 60. " T h e y ' r e very a w a r e

s