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Antonio Chavez, owner of Grandma’s Bakery on 13th Ave. in Dyker Heights. (Photo by Paul Frangipane)Antonio Chavez wears a red shirt and a white apron as he kneads dough, cleans baking sheets, and throws cakes in a coal-fired oven in the company of all those that he supports
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In the above pre-Thanksgiving video, the Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/shoppers-flock-live-poultry-markets-la-pera-brothers-gobble-thanksgiving-turkeys-article-1.980907] pays a visit to neighborhood live poultry market La Pera Brothers, as workers prepare for turkey day shoppers. We had covered manager Carlo Formisano’s plan to begin carrying organic boids [/nycs-first-organic-live-poultry-market-in-bensonhurst/]back in
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Carlo Formisano's not afraid of ruffling a few feathers (photo credit: Adam Warner from The Brooklyn Rail)Who would have thought Bensonhurst would be ahead of the curve for organic chicken products? The Brooklyn Rail ran a great story yesterday [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/05/local/in-bensonhurst-theres-a-chicken-in-every-melting-pot]