Eating In Translation

These savings won't last

Weathered supermarket flyer
Morrisania, Bronx

D'Still Liquors

"I cant believe this sign is still there," a commenter on Instagram told me, adding that the business closed "late 80s early 90s maybe." Even considering that the sign faces away from the sun — and not to conflate regional liquor lovers — that's Rip Van Winkle time, and then some!

D'Still Liquors
Surviving hand-drawn signage outside Lieutenant Spirits Wine & Liquor
7020 New Utrecht Ave. (at 71st St.), Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
718-232-8858

Tarim Gourmet Food Market

Savory breakfast pastry: This "pumpkin" samsa, probably filled with butternut squash or the like and tempered with onion, was one of four hand pies heralding a Central Asian steam table (which I could not stay to see). In the second photo, which shows pastries filled with pumpkin, potato, and lamb, note the different shapes that help the kitchen to distinguish one batch from another.

H/T agog.wanderer, who reported (in a post I can no longer find) that this is the "very first #Uyghur run gourmet store in the US." The market shares its name with the Tarim Basin, which occupies the southern half of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Tarim Gourmet Food Market
1610 Kings Hwy. (East 16th-East 17th Sts.), Homecrest, Brooklyn
347-462-1270
www.Instagram.com/Tarim_Gourmet_Food_Market_

I&C Food Market

How good are you at puzzling out missing letters? Not on the main, avenue, facade of this long-gone corner market (above) but on the side street (below), where, in addition to "fruits, groceries, meats," the well-worn signage advertises "imported & domestic" items of some sort. (Click the photo for a closer look.) Thanks to Ori Kushner for deciphering the second line, which seems to read, in full, "imported & domestic oils & cheeses."

I&C Food Market
Surviving signage, 6924 18th Ave. (at 70th St.), Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

European Gourmet & Catering

Bandi red currant plombir, Lithuanian-made ice cream.

European Gourmet & Catering
5624 Mosholu Ave. (Liebig-Tyndall Aves.), Riverdale, Bronx
718-548-8650

Jehova Nissi Deli & Grocery

Not your morning coffee: The flavor of fresh corn is evident from the first sip of this Guatemalan atol de elote, long before you get down to the dregs.

Jehova Nissi Deli & Grocery
7401 18th Ave. (at 74th St.), Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
347-254-6755
www.Facebook.com/LeidyZece

Stand Alone Cheese

The shop's name is ironic, suggested one commenter on social media, at the sight of this buttered sandwich that pairs Comté with French ham. Especially considering the quality of the ingredients, let's allow for some latitude.

Stand Alone Cheese
79-07 37th Ave. (79th-80th Sts.), Jackson Heights, Queens
929-296-9000
www.StandAloneCheese.com
Closed Monday

Specializing in freezer orders

Also note, outside this kosher butcher shop, the old ULster 1 telephone exchange — still valid, provided that it's prefaced by 718.

Holtzman & Paris Meats & Poultry
5313 13th Ave. (53rd-54th Sts.), Borough Park, Brooklyn
718-851-9270

Nur Grocery Two

Hadn't seen a Chick-O-Stick in years. Unwrapped, it looks like a tubular Butterfinger, for just two bits. Mine was a treat from a friend; thanks, Elliot!

Nur Grocery Two
54 Loisaida Ave. (Ave. C, at 4th St.), Manhattan
646-861-3386

Di Maso's Groceries

Surviving signage, 617 Vanderbilt Ave. (St. Mark's Ave.-Bergen St.), Prospect Heights, Brooklyn