How Italian immigrant grocers helped make Portland a foodie paradise | Superabundant

For over 100 years, Portlanders have been getting fresh local produce from the Central Eastside. Produce Row, located along an unassuming stretch of industrial district near the Willamette River, is home to a tight-knit network of Italian American families who have been serving Portland farm-to-table for generations — way before it was cool. And everything that makes the Pacific Northwest a foodie paradise is here in this neighborhood: from the history, to the food, to the people who care about getting it to your plate.

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