Good Taste: Rainbow Grocery celebrates 50 years of co-op love with a huge block party

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Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE Rainbow Grocery. I’ve been living nearby for like a third of my life and visit it more frequently than pretty much anywhere else in SF. It’s like there’s the best farmer’s market ever 7 days a week. The produce is incredible, it’s like every vegetable went to fancy boarding school in Switzerland and speaks 5 languages. And the cheese section is without a doubt the best in San Francisc…

Good Taste: Rainbow Grocery celebrates 50 years of co-op love with a huge block party

Subscribe to our bounty of newsletters, including Tamara’s Good Taste newsletter, here. Rainbow Grocery is one of my happy places in San Francisco. The worker-owned cooperative has been in operation for a half-century and is the largest independent natural food store in the city, the largest worker-fronted co-op in California, and a San Francisco Legacy Business. In 2004, Rainbow helped to found the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, which fo…