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This unusual documentary provides a fascinating profile of an important segment of the Japanese population rarely seen or studied in the West. It focuses on the small businessmen-proprietors who work the 1,100 family-owned businesses at Tsukiji Market, Tokyo's largest wholesale fish market.
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Hindi
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Sidhu, a cook from Chandni Chowk, longs to escape his dreary existence. He sees his chance when two strangers from China claim him to be the reincarnation of a war hero and ask him to come back with them to their village in China. Dreaming of the princely existence that awaits him, Sidhu blissfully sets out for China, never suspecting that he is being set up to take on a vicious smuggler.
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A celebration of market houses, market places, and farmers' markets across the United States. Producer Rick Sebak and his team check out crab cakes in Baltimore's Lexington market, sample coconuts and white pineapples in Hilo, Hawaii, and attend a tomato tasting in Asheville, North Carolina. From what may be the oldest market in America in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to the amazing abundance on display every Wednesday morning on the streets of Santa...
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Captures the tail end of the last great era of blues on Maxwell Street. Chicago's legendary Maxwell Street was home to an open-air market that thrived for decades. It was there that the Chicago blues was born as African American street musicians, who had fled the rural South for the city, played regularly on the dirty corners, empty lots, and broken sidewalks. Together, they hammered out a hard-driving, electrified sound that influenced the world....
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Electrified: "Maxwell Street was the home of the "electric, urban blues" which led to rock & roll...Featuring Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Uncle Johnnie Williams, Charlie Musselwhite and more!" -- Cheat you fair: "Within a small area in Chicago was a melting-pot of cultures, a microcosm of America. In its heyday, one could walk down Maxwell Street and hear several different languares being spoken and ethnic foods being sold. ... In 1994,...
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"Within a small area in Chicago was a melting-pot of cultures, a microcosm of America. In its heyday, one could walk down Maxwell Street and hear several different languares being spoken and ethnic foods being sold. ... In 1994, the forces of local government and a powerful educational institution proved too much for this beloved place and it was destroyed to make way for campus expansion and private development."--Container.
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Every year, as Advent arrives and people's thoughts turn to the joy of Christmas, Europe repeats a tradition that is more than 500 years old. In countries from Sweden to Spain and in cities from Paris to Prague, Christmas markets are set up in town squares. The markets have become a commingling of commerce and community, selling holiday ornaments and gifts, as well as food and the omnipresent gluhwein, a hot, spiced red wine that cheers shoppers on...
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"Students will discover the ancient markets of Africa by exploring Zanzibar, the ancient Swahili commerical hub off the coast of Tanzania that helped feed the West's demand for ivory and spices, and investigating the bustling port town of Lamu, an island off the Kenyan coast. Then it's off to Djenné in the heart of Mali, where, in this historic center of business, politics and art, merchants and their customers continue to exchange goods and opinions"--Container....
17) Growing our food producers, Julie A. Braly, Jennifer Karno ; writers, Lynne Okun, Krista Inchausti
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Field trips to farms, factories and markets for the backdrop for this video series.
Children wil enjoy following along with our young hosts as they larn about the many different places crops can be grown, on trees, underground, and even underwater.
19) Heart & soil
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English
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"An inspiring film about the food we eat and the people who grow it locally."--Container.
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