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K-Mart

Udon at Whitney Food Market & Deli

From the outside, it doesn’t look like much. A standard LED “open” sign shines (or doesn’t) under a conventional red awning. An asphalt apron holds three tables sharing a pair of faded umbrellas.  (more…)

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Flesh and Blood

Meat at Ferraro's Market

Two framed commemorations hang outside the doors of Ferraro’s Market in Fair Haven. The first is a picture of Salvatore Ferraro Sr. accompanied by Psalm 23. The second is a poem—for Salvatore F. Ferraro Jr. (more…)

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Life’s Work

Flowers at Nica's Market

As a boy, Giuseppe Sabino watched his father take a pickaxe into the fields of Caserta, Italy, and upturn acres of cracked Italian soil so they’d be ready for the rain. Meantime, Sabino (more…)

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