Aretha Franklin and the "Kosher for Passover" dairy case at Mollie Stone's on California Street (yes, there is a connection...)

Dear Friends,

Please be advised that the “Kosher for Passover” dairy case at Mollie Stone’s on California Street (San Francisco) contains several items that are marked kosher, but not kosher for Passover. I noticed it on the yogurts in that case; yogurt, according to Jewish law, must have a "kosher for Passover" label on it if purchased before or during Passover. http://www.uscj.org/metny/huntinhh/guide.html

And now, on the subject of Aretha Franklin - if you’re looking for some good music to put you into Pesach cleaning mode, or at the very least into a great post-workday mood, may I suggest you listen to “Respect” or “Think” or, really, just about anything Aretha Franklin recorded during her tenure with Atlantic Records. If you’d like me to send you an MP3 file, just contact me with either “Think” or “Respect” in the subject line of your e-mail message. I've been listening to Aretha almost non-stop for the past week and a half - what an amazing, enduring body of work she (along with producer Jerry Wexler) created for us back then. She achieves more, and goes more places, in the first 60 seconds of "Think" than most artists could dream of achieving in an entire lifetime. She hits a note at 2:35 into "You're All I Need To Get By" that most other artists could only dream of hitting. You go, Aretha, thanks!

Chag sameach,

KA