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There are/were a number of Caputos; the big chain (Joe Caputo) closed some years ago. There's still an Angelo Caputo's chain with four or five stores, but none near me.
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
Ahh, I'm pretty sure those are the ones I'm thinking of, there's one in Bloomingdale. And then there are tons of independent Italian bakeries all over the place. My Dad used to have a specific shop for different kinds of cookies. When we were living in Japan and we'd fly into O'Hare (and later when I was in grad school and we'd take the airport shuttle to O'Hare), he'd pick us up at the international terminal and then we'd have to stop at three or four bakeries so he could get just the right this or that. These were all the cookies from my childhood, I hardly know the names of any of them, but they're what my grandmother always made. My Dad figured out which bakeries made which ones the way she did. And the bakery at the Caputo's in Bloomingdale was on the list as well. We'd make the rounds of the small bakeries, then Caputos to the bakery and the deli.  I had no idea at the time that those trips would become such a sweet memory for me.
My sense of where things are in greater Chicagoland is very, very unreliable! 
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Would like to find a cookbook entitled Asian Food for Kitchen Klutzs.
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
We had a big pan-Asian store here that closed pre-pandemic but is supposed to reopen in a different shopping plaza. I do miss it. Of course, there’s always the option of going to the Japanese, Chinese or Korean stores in Manhattan or Brooklyn.
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Minor Deity |
I have tried several times to get to our local H Mart and failed...the traffic and trying to get into the parking lot is impossible! I now live in a Cambodian prevalent community so there are wonderful small markets near to home that feel like a neighborhood place.They have the most amazing fresh ingredients...one an amazing fresh fish market. 
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| knitterati Beatification Candidate  |
I love Kinokuniya; there’s one inside the Beaverton Uwajimaya, too. Lots of fun pens, notebooks, stationery, and books. I used to find Japanese knitting stitch dictionaries there. Now some of my treasured stitch dictionaries have been translated into English, which makes them much more useful, although I was pretty good at decoding charts.
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Foregoing Vacation to Post |
Two other really good Japanese films are “The Scythian Lamb” and “Harmonium”. Both films are drama and contain violence. I saw them both at an International Film Festival. Some of the best movies in my opinion come from France, Iceland, and Japan in no particular order of course. Hopefully, the Chicago IFF will be back to normal this October so I can see some more. Back to the topic: Does the vice versa situation exist in Japan and South Korea? Surely by now there must be many corporate and individually owned supermarket stores catering to Westerners living in these two countries. I can’t remember seeing any when I lived in Frankfurt, West Germany though. There were only commissaries located on or near U.S. military bases. AAFEES, the Army and Air Force European Exchange Service, operates the food commissaries for the Defense Department for Americans working in Germany. | |||
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana  |
A book of entitled food? The Crazy Rich Asian Cookbook?
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