Friday
26Jun2009
Cashew juice, GuaranĂ¡ Antarctica and merengue soda (Or, how to get your Latin drink on)
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 5:48PM The following is the final installment in a four-part series profiling the city's ethnic food markets.
In addition gaining a peek into another culture, visiting an ethnic market will often remind you just how uncreative we can be with certain ingredients. Take the humble, yet delicious cashew. I had never imagined you could have cashew juice until I visited the Brazilian Store, 333 Valley St.:
And while many of the products you see at ethnic food markets will be new to you, you will occaisionally run across a real blast from the past. Indeed, in the Brazilian Store I also saw a product I hadn't seen in at least 10 years:
