Short Film About Butchers at Cliff's Meat Market in North Carolina
Video Link: http://www.eater.com/2015/1/20/7863173/watch-a-short-film-about-butchers-at-cliffs-meat-market-in-north
A great bilingual film from Southern Foodways Alliance.
Here's a great short film commissioned by the Southern Foodways Alliance that showcases the bilingual staff (and patrons) of Carrboro, North Carolina's 40-year-old Cliff's Meat Market. In the video by Vittles Films, meat market owner Cliff Collins, who opened the shop in 1973, talks about how his market adapted to the area's growing Hispanic population in part by hiring Spanish-speaking butchers like Tolo, who gives the film its name — un buen carnicero ("a good butcher").
Today, the market offers house-made chorizo, pork stomach, and carne al pastor along with familiar cuts of prime rib and links of country sausage, and the film documents the men as they work and learn from each other. "They have told me my English sounds very country," Tolo says. "People have asked, 'Where did you learn these words?' And I say I work with Cliff. And they say, 'Oh, okay, now I know.'" Tolo also reveals how he sometimes feels "trapped" in the United States, candidly pointing out, "It is considered a free country. It is a free country, but sometimes, only at its convenience." Go, watch the film above.
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