[Sca-cooks] Ethnic market epiphanies

[David Friedman]

Living in San Jose, we have, within about a mile, a large Chinese 
supermarket, a large Japanese supermarket, at least one Indian grocery 
store, a Persian grocery store, and various hispanic markets. Lots more 
things, including multiple halal butchers, a little farther away.

On 3/7/13 9:35 PM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:
> We who live in the San Fernando Valley are spoiled in this regard. I  live
> a short walk from a both a Pakistani grocer and a small Armenian market. A
> bit further away an Indian market is next to an Israeli supermarket. Lots of
>   Latino places, of course. And more than a few Persian places. One of which
> makes  its own lavash (about four feet long) and a kind of green quiche
> which I THINK  is made with spinach and mint.
>
> Whatever it is, it's lucky I only bought one slice. If I'd bought ten,  I
> would have finished those on the drive home as well.
>
>   
> Jim  Chevallier
> www.chezjim.com
>
> Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste  Le Grand d'Aussy:
> Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France
>
>   
> In a message dated 3/7/2013 10:08:03 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> sjk3 at cornell.edu writes:
>
> East  Asian (fresh/frozen galangal; wheat starch)
> Middle Eastern (old world  beans; date and pomegranate molasses; rose and
> orange blossom waters) South  Asian (an assortment of spices unusual to the
> modern Western palate;  ghee)
> Italian (raw uncured olives in season; fresh quince)
> Caribbean  (assorted meats and poultry; unusual citrus  fruit)
>
>
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