Issue 05: La Merced, A Market in Mexico City
I love to travel. Over the last few years I’ve been to Japan, all over South East Asia,…
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Tastes of La Merced
Photo above by Eric Futran There is a pot of beans simmering at almost every market stand in…
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Issue 06: Talking Turkey in Chicago
Hon Kee Restaurant’s turkey to-go Fifteen years ago I was on the WGN Radio Thanksgiving morning show. It…
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Marigold Hill Organics
People have no idea what’s in season. At the supermarket, everything is in season all the time and…
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David and Goliath
It used to be that when you were a butcher, you didn’t just have a job, you were…
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Visiting Markets in Winter
For the traveler, markets afford one of the few windows on real life open to strangers. Mimi Sheraton,…
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New Crop Rice
When my husband and I owned J&L Catering there was always a core group of Vietnamese employees in…
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