Beyond our culinary comfort zone
My fiance has changed my life in many ways – like, for example, by introducing me to our local carniceria, or Mexican grocery store. More than the market itself, he taught me about the authentic items found there: fruits such as tamarind, guava and prickly pear; dishes such as chicharron, deep-fried pork skins with hunks of fat and meat still attached to the rind – as rich and buttery as it sounds.
When it comes to exploring Chattanooga’s ethnic markets, it helps to have a guide, which we provide in our first story below.
– Sunny Montgomery, editor