All Your Favorite Foods Are Stuck in Transit

Small businesses relying on imported foods face new challenges amid rapidly changing pandemic restrictions and a postal service implosion

Naomi Tomky
Heated
Published in
6 min readSep 28, 2020

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The key to recreating the beloved street food of Ghana at BlackStar Kebab, a 5-year-old Seattle food truck, is a complex blend of 11 spices and groundnuts that…

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Naomi Tomky
Heated
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Food and travel writer Naomi Tomky is the author of The Pacific Northwest Seafood Cookbook. Follow her on Twitter @Gastrognome and on Instagram @the_gastrognome