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Friday
26Jun2009

Cashew juice, GuaranĂ¡ Antarctica and merengue soda (Or, how to get your Latin drink on)

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:

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