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streets filled with 140-year-old Italianate buildings, it
is home to dozens of specialty grocers, cheese and
dairy shops, butcher shops, bakeries, a farmers’ market
of fresh produce, desserts and chocolates, beer and
wine and even fresh seafood.
Barb led us to Eckerlin Meats, a sixth-generation
butcher shop since 1852, which is especially known for
a Cincinnati specialty, goetta. Goetta is a concoction of
pork, beef and steel cut oats with seasoning to make a
verydistinctiveCincinnatisausage.AtDean’sMediter-
ranean Imports, we sampled some spicy hummus, of
which six homemade kinds are offered along with all
manner of imports, led by Kate Zaidan and her father,
Dean, who came from Lebanon.
At top: The rolling hills of Blue Grass that At Arepas Place, Isis Arrieta-Dennis from Colom-
dot the countryside outside Lexington make bia shared her delicious homemade arepas, “our
for truly beautiful country drives, where Colombianversionofgrilledcheese,”—athickcorntor-
thoroughbreds roam the stone-lined farms. tilla stuffed with cheese and white salsa. At Taste of
Belgium, Chris Tucker had us drooling over his sweet,
Opposite: Cincinnati’s Finlay Market marks crispy waffles that needed no syrup whatsoever.
100 years. Above, Henry Clay’s Ashland
estate in Lexington offers tours of the Cincinnati has long been a city of immigrants, but
statesman’s home, now focusing on women the ones that most captured our attention were the
and slaves who lived there. slaves seeking freedom here in the decades before the
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