Prewash
We moved out of The City a few years ago to a community that used to be a sleepy little vacation hamlet with ticky tacky lake cottages , bait shops and antique stores but has been transformed into a bedroom suburb over the past 10 years or so. Living in the city was a bittersweet experience. I loved being close to Devon Avenue where you can eat your way through waves of emigration as you travel east to west from Lake Michigan. Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, Pakistani(on Saturdays areas of Devon become a mini New Delhi when people from neighboring states arrive to get hard-to-find ingredients), Jamaican, kosher fish shops, Russian, Polish, halal meat shops, a Croatian Cultural Center, all interspersed with Mexican bodegas. We bought cinnamon, peppercorns, cardomom, turmeric, garam masala, red pepper flakes, cumin seed, mustard seed in various colors, red lentils, green lentils, brown lentils, lentils, lentils, lentils and rice in bulk for really low prices. We'd duck into one of the ...