Martha stocking items in her store in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In a modest storefront called Martha’s International Market, Inc. on 28th Street in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Martha and John PeeWee have ...

THE CULMINATION OF A DREAM LONG IN THE MAKING. FOR SOME, THIS IS JUST A KITCHEN. BUT FOR ONE, LOCAL BUSINESS OWNER, IT’S HER SLICE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. CHARLIE VETTINER PARK, WHO GOES BY CLARISSA, ...

The other day, at a Nigerian restaurant called Safari, in Houston, Texas, I peeled back the plastic wrap on a ball of fufu, a staple across West Africa. Made from a steamed root vegetable or grain—in ...