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...precious liquids. At the very first bite, with the spices exploding in my mouth, I find myself breaking into a sweat that banishes all thoughts of hygiene and healthy eating. I resolve to return for the paneer ke chille (cheese-stuffed pancakes) advertised on his movable stall and move...
...arrive, and that lag time gets even longer if you're not home the moment the delivery person rings the doorbell. That may be part of the reason why online shopping, which currently accounts for just 5% of all retail sales in the U.S., is already beginning to stall...
...vegetable stand when he had to put it up for sale, but they had to wait a full year to gain approval from the market's archaic administration - largely controlled by the local families who have sold produce here for more than a century - to change a produce stall into a pasta store. "The merchants all have to agree to let a vendor sell something new," explains Ibars. "Out of the four hundred stall owners, one guy voted against us." He declines to explain how he and his partners convinced the holdout to change his vote...
...sense of continuity. "I see people buying fish from my son who are the great-grandchildren of people who bought fish from my grandmother," says Manel Ripoll, president of the market's merchant association and a retired fishmonger. Though his children are the fifth generation to run the family stall, his grandmother might not recognize the Boqueria today. Fishmongers still dominate, but immigrants now run several of the produce stalls. Greeks and Koreans sell, respectively, kimchi and stuffed grape leaves along the market's edges. And a short walk from the wild mushroom stand, hipsters dish out vegetarian lasagna...
...recent years, as hordes of tourists have swarmed under its iron roof each day, the Boqueria has become dotted with stands selling packaged goods (pre-cut watermelons wrapped with forks) or cooked food (pizza by the slice). To some purists, however, the replacement of a longstanding vegetable stall with Pazzta, the tile-and-chrome fresh pasta store, is a reminder of how much the character of the Boqueria is changing. For others, it's simply a case of the market adapting to the tastes of its clientele...