It's true....over two weeks ago and Killer Frost knocked off all the embryonic fingerlings on the eggplant crop. In January a 30-35lb case cost $16.20. Today, if you can find it, the cost is between $38 for 20 lbs and $57 for 30-35lb of wiggly, wilted, most likely browned inside, eggplant. What's an establishment to do? Espousing locally grown and seasonal...we have decided to temporarily omit Melitzana from our offerings--in house, take out, wholesale and retail. We were pulling out our hair with what to do about the Mousakas and Veggie Mousakas, as staple as the Gyros here at the Gardens, when a whisper directed us to call the Co-op Partners Warehouse and we brought up the last four cases after testing them and finding them to be as firm as June stone-fruit. Enjoy them while they last: from Arizona, north of the Freeze Zone AND they're organic!!!