Jersey Dispatch: Bulk Italian at Corrado's Market
There are stores you visit when you need a little something—an apple, a quart of milk, or a bottle of soda—and others when you need to do regular shopping. But what about when you need to buy more? Warehouse clubs? Two carts at your local supermarket? What about a place that specializes in big quantities without memberships or requirements? In New Jersey, the answer is Corrado's Family Affair in Clifton.
I first visited Corrado's when someone recommended it as a place to buy Italian specialties and perhaps, at one time long ago, it was just fine for that. Today though, like most other New Jersey businesses that began as Italian groceries, Corrado's has morphed into something else: the place to buy volume. Cases of San Marzano tomatoes, eight ounce cans of anchovy fillets, whole cheeses, and bulk packages of meat and poultry.
