Ethnic Grocery Stores

ethnic grocery stores: For a long time, they had to put up with pricey and often stale produce imported from abroad and sold at ethnic grocery stores, or growing them in their own backyard, according to The Star. Some of these domestically produced world crops such as Asian long eggplant, Indian round eggplant, okra, yard long beans, amaranth, Indian red carrot, tomatillos and edamame have slowly taken up shelf spaces that were once dominated by imports from Asia and For many newcomers, ethnocultural foods are not only a reminder of their homeland, but part of the diet they grew up with. But as immigrant markets grow in major urban centres, especially in the Greater Toronto Area, an increasing number of commercial farms, with help from the Ontario and federal governments, are experimenting with locally grown ethnocultural crops to meet the changing demands. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.