Sahadi's
If you're jonesing for some Middle Eastern food but can't make it to your usual market in Beirut or Damascus or something, we've found an amazing alternative, right here in my lovely borough of Brooklyn. On Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, there is a delightful market called Sahadi's that could just save you a trip halfway around the world. Sahadi's is branded as a Middle Eastern market, but I could probably happily shop there for most of the other food in my diet anyway. When you first walk in, there are plexiglas boxes upon boxes of goods that the very friendly and helpful staff will pack up for you in bags. Spices, nuts, dried fruit, candy, grains, herbs, beans...it's all a melange of different textures and colors and aromas. Just behind this little fort, there is a salad bar arrangement of all types of olives, bobbing up and down in their brines - the best one to put in a martini, olives stuffed with feta, olives stuffed with garlic. The feta and ...