Pack your bags! In honor of life’s most delicious highways, we give you Hit the Road, Snack, our travel guide of things to eat, see, and do this summer from coast to coast.
Nothing smells quite like a farmers market. Part abundant global produce, part animal bones and sweating fish, part baked goods and pan-seared gyoza—they tend to exude a kind of funky diasporic musk. And somehow, the Buford Highway Farmers Market smells the same today as it did in 1988. At that time, my family lived in Jonesboro, Georgia—a suburb that felt very far away, though I now know it was only a 45-minute drive—and we traveled up to Buford Highway to find the Puerto Rican ingredients we couldn’t find anywhere else: root vegetables such as yucca and yautía for pasteles and sancocho, green and ripe plantains, real chicharrón, Coco Rico (my favorite coconut soda), and fresh-baked bread from panaderías (Latin American bakeries). We could find all of that and more along this magical, 40-mile highway.
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