it costs a lot more to eat nutritious food is just ridiculous. Furthermore, although a lot of poor people unfortunately live in areas not well served by supermarkets, a lot of them live in "ethnic" neighborhoods that have markets...

to my door if we’re being especially lazy Same goes for Thai food. I’m ashamed to say I’ve never made larb. I can get amazing larb and penang 10 minutes away, or delivered. If I lived somewhere which did not have...

Ewan’s shoppers will come from a much different mould, ethnic Don Mills. Good luck, Mark!

by regular folks. Then there is the ethnic food of the moment. I would say that Latin American foods have the momentum of trendiness right now, especially reflected in fusion-type appropriation of ingredients and inflections....

Semolina is available in the US, but usually you must go to specialty grocers to find it.

jfood made dumps last winter and cheated by buying won-ton wrappers in the grocers. it took about the first half of the football game to make the dumplings and the second half to eat them. good news with the youngest away at...

I spotted them at our co-op. This is one of those specialty items that your grocer should be able to get if he wants to please. Ask.

(from the grocer), and easy on the cheese. Sometimes we will make this into a taco salad with a few taco chips (organic is better for corn chips) and heavy on the salad part. For pizza maybe using a small amount of boccocini...

or ethnic shops for a whole host of reasons, that’s just me. I would also point out that the competition Wholefoods faces here is much stronger than in NYC – most supermarket chains in NYC are pretty hopeless so WF...

It’s about balance. And time. I shop predominantly from farmers markets and independant grocers. Hell, I run my own site extolling the virtues of SOLE, but ya know what? There are just some nights when take-away pizza is...

in a supermarket or even specialty grocers. They freeze extremely well and, if a cook knows how to prepare them, the difference between fresh and frozen is barely distingishable. They are certainly preferable to deteriorated...

and it’s easy to “choose” local. But, yeah, salt, olive oil, coffee, spices, that all comes from afar. And anytime you want an “authentic” ethnic ingredient, those come from afar, too. ~TDQ

that are clearly inferior to the other, shouldn’t he tell me that? But a discussing quality is not an integral part of the discussion about ethnic and other forms of inexpensive dining. And to take it a step further, some...

are probably self-deception. If there are flavor differences in organic vs. non-organic as they typically appear on the grocer's shelf, they are most likely due to underlying causes other than that one is organic and the other...

There Jfood stands in front of the chickens in the grocer. Choices include Perdue, B&E, D’Artagnan, White Gem, Holly Farms, etc. Prices range from $149 to $7.99 per pound. Would jfood buythe Perdue at $7.99, nope, how 'bout...