New York Times food writer sings Detroit's praises

Yeah, it gets kind of mushy in that let's-cheer-for-the-underdog kind of way. But it sure is nice to see that someone appreciates how Metro Detroit is getting back on its feet and charting a better course for the future. Or, at least, a tastier course for the future.

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"And how. During the 48 hours I spent in Detroit, I met enthusiastic black, white and Asian people, from age 10 to over 60, almost all of whom agreed that food is the key to the new Detroit.

I was driven around the city by Dan Carmody, director of the 120-year-old Eastern Market, whose huge sheds are crammed with vendors on Saturdays, when as many as 50,000 shoppers buy everything from Grown in Detroit vegetables to Michigan asparagus to flats of flowers to hydroponic tomatoes. In other words, a typical big-city covered market mash-up.

But if the market is familiar, the rest of Detroit is anything but. Read the paper, and you see a wasted landscape; go there, and you see the sprouts emerging from the soil."

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