{"id":10044,"date":"2022-09-01T14:02:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T18:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=10044"},"modified":"2022-10-03T22:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T02:51:25","slug":"how-erewhon-became-l-a-s-hottest-hangout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2022\/09\/01\/how-erewhon-became-l-a-s-hottest-hangout\/","title":{"rendered":"How Erewhon Became L.A.\u2019s Hottest Hangout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/17\/style\/erewhon-los-angeles-health-food.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last year, after the coronavirus pandemic forced bars and nightclubs across the city to shutter<\/a>, supermarkets were among the few places where people could still see and be seen. Erewhon, with its outdoor dining areas, became the unofficial hangout for the young, beautiful and bored. The store seems tailor-made for today\u2019s influencer culture<\/a>. Its fastidiously curated assortment, where foods are lit like fashion editorials and are often some combination of organic, gluten-free, biodynamic, free-range, and vegan, makes it ripe for snarky quips. Part of the store\u2019s allure on social media is that it can seamlessly exist at the center of various overlapping content genres, like food hauls<\/a> or \u201cwhat I eat in a day<\/a>\u201d videos. There are jokes about its prices<\/a> and how it\u2019s more difficult to penetrate than the United States Capitol<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a paradox for a health food store to be cool,\u201d said Jason Widener, a vice president at Erewhon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Erewhon\u2019s interiors focus on natural, raw materials (a nod to the raw, natural selection) and exposed food prep kitchens that communicate honesty. \u201cWe\u2019ve got nothing to hide,\u201d Mr. Chiprut said. He was inspired by four-star hotels and luxury clothing shops and wanted extra-wide aisles to evoke an airy, open feeling. And of course, each location has an outdoor eating area, perfect for loitering with a smoothie, which has become a windfall of sorts during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Erewhon’s is a brand-new look on healthy and allergy specific food, these stores were created to attract the youth of today. I believe that this company is helping change the stigma around eating healthy, as well as giving people a place to get their groceries in a safe and positive environment during the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/17\/style\/erewhon-los-angeles-health-food.html Overview: Last year, after the coronavirus pandemic forced bars and nightclubs across the city to shutter, supermarkets were among the few places where people could still see and be seen. Erewhon, with its outdoor dining areas, became the unofficial hangout for the young, beautiful and bored. The store seems tailor-made for today\u2019s influencer culture. Its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":10045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10044"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12312,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions\/12312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}