Jane’s tribute to West Point Market 

Jane Snow, probably the best food writer in BJ history with a boatload of national honors to prove it, writes a tribute to West Point Market, which will go belly-up in 2016 after 80 years.

Jane Snow

Jane exudes:

“Thanks to West Point I was able to write about goat cheese in 1985, shiitake mushrooms in 1986 and edible flowers in 1988, long before most of my colleagues at other newspapers had access to such ingredients.”

Former owner Russ Owens was the driving force of West Point Market till his 2005 retirement.

To read Jane’s words of wisdom about West Point Market, an Akron landmark that will be no more, click on https://janesnowtoday.wordpress.com/

A developer is working with West Point Market and the City of Akron to bring a 40,000 square foot organic and specialty foods market to the property.

But it will never reach the national status of West Point Market. Just ask Jane.