Passing along excitement about good food is the heart of Formaggio Kitchen--and on Saturday afternoon it shows.

Richard F. Meyer '54, a professor at Harvard Business School, says he shops at the store roughly four times a week. Today he is picking up meats and cheeses--including his favorite, prosciutto de Parma, a spiced ham from Parma, Italy--for a breakfast tomorrow morning with friends in town for the Princeton football game.

"Hi, Karen," he greets Halperin, who is at the deli counter today.

"Hello, Mr. Meyer. Do you need prosciutto de Parma?" she asks with a knowing look.

"Actually, yes," Meyer answers, smiling at her recognition of his indulgence.

Two teenage girls lean eagerly over the bakery counter toward clerk Luis Henrique, a native Brazilian who came to Cambridge to try to get a graduate degree in psychology at Harvard.

"So we meet again!" one of the girls chirps sweetly, focusing more on Henrique's blue eyes than on the half-pound of gummy bears he is rationing out for her.

Jay and Jennifer Bodnar, stopping in en route to Vermont, quibble in front of the bakery window before finally settling on a key lime pie--Jay's choice--after some good-natured argument.