Stuffing Tortillas and Parkgoers, Dawn to Dusk
Tagged: brooklyn, New York, New York CityPosted on: June 24th, 2007“On the concrete floor of a garage turned kitchen, behind a curtain stamped in lavender and green, was a freezer as tall as a man, as long as a car and as wide as a love seat. Inside was a pile of cardboard boxes stuffed with lettuce, tomatoes and cactus leaf nopales, a Mexican delicacy. The coolers on the opposite end were packed with raw meat: 40 pounds of chicken, 60 pounds of chorizo, 300 pounds of pork, 1,000 pounds of beef.
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Friday is preparation day for Ms. Hernández. From dawn until way past dusk, she and her companion, Ricardo Ramírez, toil in silence, slicing, dicing and seasoning the ingredients in the freezer in anticipation of a weekend at the Red Hook Recreation Area in Brooklyn.”
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