ON WEDNESDAYS, Saturdays and Sundays in Santa Monica, a wealthy ocean-front city next to Los Angeles, residents toting canvas bags stock up on organic kale, locally caught seafood and exotic grains at farmers' markets. If they cannot find the type of carrot or kumquat they are after among the tented stands, they can round out their shopping at the half-dozen grocery stores within a few miles of them. Fifteen miles away in South Los Angeles, an impoverished area, the pickings are far slimmer. On Manchester Boulevard, one of the neighbourhood's main corridors, there are many liquor stores, a Domino's Pizza and a chicken joint called "Wingstop" that accepts food stamps, but few grocery stores. In the past residents have complained that those supermarkets that do exist truck in rotten food from wealthier neighbourhoods. (The supermarkets deny this.)
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