Our big Thanksgiving meal this year is atypical, and involves a mol�.
A particularly involved mol�. It required an always-exciting trip out
to Food4Less at 82nd and Powell. Going to these edge-of-city
megamarkets is always like traveling, like traveling far away. They
fascinate me, these bastions of thrift with their seven different
brands of fish sauce, their bargain-basement wafer cookies, their
chayotes (both with and without “spikes”), and aisles of Russian
pickled eggplant spreads. You won’t see anything organic, but you will
be able to buy chiles you’ve never even heard of before for this mol�.

When it comes to anything ethnic, these places are miraculous. David’s
insistence on buying a bottle of Thai Pennywort Juice elicited bemused
nods from the cashier.

Just don’t try to find quality “normal” produce or cuts of meat from
“normal” animals that you’d really want to eat. Just because you can
buy pig snouts doesn’t make it a good idea. Well, same with the
pennywort, really.