Statement of the bleeding obvious: We like chefs. They’re like our guides to the best food. Actually, make that Sherpas, guiding us and lugging our food around so it’s there when we want it.
But you can’t spend your life in restaurants; you have to shop for yourself at some point. Thankfully, Txikito’s chef Alex Raij will guide you to the best places in her neighborhoods—Chinatown and the Lower East Side—in our new edition of Provision Quest. She won’t carry your groceries home for you, though.









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