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The first coining of the term edit

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In searching online I found two 1980 sources for the coining of the term "gourmet ghetto", but I can only see snippets of the text through Google books. One book appears to be calling the whole city of Berkeley a gourmet ghetto, including the Berkeley Bowl grocery store which is on the other side of the city from North Shattuck:

The Mill Hunk Herald, page 12. "Returning to the Bay Area this summer I found that once courageous Berkeley had become a gourmet ghetto. Croissants and cappuclno bars were found in every book and record store, even in a produce market called the Berkeley Bowl."

The other source is New West, volume 5, part 2, page 81:

"Located in the heart of Berkeley's gourmet ghetto – next door to Cocolat and half a block from Chez Panisse – Rosenthal's concentrates on sandwich makings."

I am wondering what earlier sources might be found to establish coining of the term. Failing that, I would like to know the author of the New West piece. Binksternet (talk) 22:39, 30 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

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