Chicago ethnic markets featured in Washington Post

My mom, aware that Antonius's and my idea of a really fun time is to go to a new grocery store in a neighborhood with few native speakers of English, sent me a clipping from the travel section of last Sunday's Washington Post. Being slightly more internet-savvy than my mom, I will post the URL:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... May28.html

It's an account of going on one of Evelyn Thompson's Ethnic Grocery Tours: this tour hit Rogers Park Fruit Market, Supermercado Morelia, La Unica, BM Bakery, Middle East Bakery & Grocery, Bale French Bakery, and Thai Grocery. The writer gives a short paragraph on each.

Nice to see Chicago associated with something more than hot dogs and pizza!

Amata

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Decent article, always nice to see independent grocers getting recognition. However, the writer completely fails to go south of 5000 north - everything mentioned is pretty far up there on the north side. Just something that kind of irked me about the piece, considering how many amazing markets are throughout the rest of the city (and suburbs!).