--- description: The Winchester Farmer's Market in suburban Memphis is a vinyl-tiled, fluorescent-lit showcase of pluralism, a daily exposition of the diversity that America promises. Ethnicities and... title: A Market for All Americans image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # A Market for All Americans by [John T. Edge](/author/john-t-edge/) ## John T. Edge Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 30, 2016 12:12 PM CUT by [John T. Edge](/author/john-t-edge/) ## John T. Edge Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 30, 2016 12:12 PM CUT The Winchester Farmer’s Market in suburban Memphis is a vinyl-tiled, fluorescent-lit showcase of pluralism, a daily exposition of the diversity that America promises. Ethnicities and countries mix and match in this grocery the size of a small-town Walmart owned by Korean-American James Lee. Stacked like sandbags on a levee, burlap pillows of rice define the center aisle. Freezer cases yield whole Egyptian crawfish sold under a Cajun banner. Tins of Argentina corned beef, popular in the Philippines, abut ranks of Hot Titus sardines, packed in Morocco, and Geisha mackerel, wild-caught in Thailand. Unlike those at a traditional grocery, the aisles here reflect the porosity of international borders. Nothing is labeled foreign. No ethnic section ghettoizes goods or people. West India and India share a longitude in this Pangaea, where second-generation Vietnamese Americans shop for Florida sugarcane stalks, and first-generation Mexican Americans stock up on tubs of Tennessee-rendered manteca. That approach is more than inclusive; it’s good business. The Census Bureau predicts that minorities will make up nearly 57% of the population by 2060. Winchester Farmer’s Market is unexceptional. The nation is rife with markets like this one, where a walk down the aisles reveals our demographic destiny. Amid political talk of building walls, Winchester shoppers and their kith around the country cross borders daily. Edge is a writer and the director of the Southern Foodways Alliance ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4389165/54-a-market-for-all-americans/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4389165/54-a-market-for-all-americans/"},"headline":"A Market for All Americans","datePublished":"2016-06-30T12:12:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:58:05.012Z","description":"The Winchester Farmer's Market in suburban Memphis is a vinyl-tiled, fluorescent-lit showcase of pluralism, a daily exposition of the diversity that America promises. Ethnicities and...","url":"https://time.com/4389165/54-a-market-for-all-americans/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"John T. Edge","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/john-t-edge/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4389165/54-a-market-for-all-americans/","name":"A Market for All Americans"}}]}] ```