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| | Ethnic Bites Of Big Apple -- Courant.com |
 | | GUIDE JOSH WOLFF of Big Onion Walking Tours, foreground, talks about the Eldridge Street Synagogue at the beginning of a tour focusing on the food of the many ethnic groups that have inhabited the Lower East Side of New York, both past and present. |
 | | On this steamy city afternoon, we find Wolff at the appointed corner, collecting $20 a head from a swarm of folks eager to explore enclaves thick with that most American of histories - that of its immigrants. |
 | | As they melt in our mouths, Wolff explains they're a nod to the Latino population that, beginning in the 1960s, poured into the Alphabet City section of the Lower East Side, christening it, in their pronunciation, the Loisaida. |
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