From Fairway Market"s master buyer and author of the hugely successful Cheese Primer comes a celebration of the store"s extravagant food collection and the stories surrounding its culture. Fairway, a local institution in New York City for more than ffty years, is the busiest food store in the world. There shoppers can find innumerable artisanal food products, which, for three decades, Steven Jenkins has traveled the world to find. With a wonderful narrative and anecdotes from the man who personally bought so many of the world"s greatest foods to New York and the United States, readers will become more enthusiastic shoppers and better cooks. Jenkins"s longtime associate, Mitchel London, provides recipes that will attract not only Fairway customers butany home cook who has access to great ingredients.