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Salvadoran Chef Tells the Story of Her Mission Market Restaurant

Inside the Mission Market Food Mall is a small restaurant that customers say will transport you to El Salvador with its authentic cuisine. The restaurant’s master chef and owner, Aminta Calderon, migrated to San Francisco from...
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Don Julio Presides Over His Mission Curiosity Shop

Julio Lucero migrated to the United States in 1979 because of the brutal civil war that was then escalating in his homeland of El Salvador. About a decade later, Lucero became the owner of a...
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Business Runs in the Family at Cafe La Taza

Carlos Martinez, manager of Cafe La Taza on Mission Street, says business runs in the family. His father, Noel Martinez, managed a supermarket in his native Nicaragua before moving to the United States with his...