The following is the second installment in a four-part series profiling the city's ethnic food markets.

Goat meat has, apparently, become more and more in demand in Manchester. But you won't find it at Stop & Shop, Hannford or Shaw's. But for $3.50 per pound, The Spice Center, in the Maple Valley Plaza at 245 Maple Street, can hook you up.

Abdul, a butcher at The Spice Center, told me he sells close to 40 goats and lambs per week to the city's growing Middle Eastern, Pakastani and African populations.

He then invited me into his freezer:

As the name implies, The Spice Center does indeed sell spices and lots of them. And they're cheap.

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