Railway Ave, Paterson, NJ
Railway Ave in Paterson, NJ. A place that reminds me of my childhood shopping with my grandmother in Kursk open markets in Russia back in 1970’s.
You come home with this…
And in a few hours, turn it into this…
And then, there’s this…
And this…
And this…
During the summer months, there’s always this guy delivering juice from a freshly pressed sugar cane…
In December, never a shortage of eel for the Seven Fishes Dinner with your Italian family…
In Spring, you bring this home…
And if you happened to flow into the crowd during Bangladeshi National festivities, you go home with Jackfruit. And this is a whole another story…
This picture says it all…
Me: What else is here to check out that we’ve never seen before?
Tom: What the hell did I get myself into? Need beer — intravenously, now.
I need to go here. I am tired of seeing my jackfruit come from a can.
Emmalee, I’ll post my jackfruit story. My family is still laughing at me.
This reminds me of the fruit markets I would go to with my grandmother in Astoria when I was growing up.