Oakmont Market is a small grocery store in Cupertino, on the corner of Homestead Road and Blaney. It was opened about a year ago and it’s getting busier every day. Frederico, the owner, is very modest and not greedy. He goes to the Market at 4:00AM and buys fresh produce every day. He checks the merchandise himself to make sure it’s the best quality. He spends the whole day arranging the place and listening to what the buyers want. I used to drive to the Milk Pail every Friday after the agents’ tour in Los Altos and Palo Alto and buy wonderful fruit and vegetables, fresh bread that was so tasty I would eat half of it on the way home, and European cheeses. When Frederico told me that his brother managed the Milk Pail I told him that I would help him in any way to make his place successful so he can get the same exotic cheese and bread and fresh produce. My Pediatrician friend went there for the first time and told me that it took her an hour and a half to finish shopping because she kept meeting all her Israeli and other patients and talked to everyone. It feels like the neighborhood grocery shop back in Israel where you know everyone and we all give advice, what to cook and how to prepare that chicken soup with the celery root and the parsnip root and what spices to add...

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Frederico is happy to order anything you like, just ask him and you’ll see it on the shelf for the best possible price.

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