As soon as I meet them, Waqas Shakeel, who goes by Shak, and his brother Farrukh— co-owners and founders of the innovative culinary food cart Halalish—begin showing me how to identify a counterfeit bill. “You scratch the collar with your nail,” Farrukh says, holding out a folded bill for me to touch. “You can tell […]

Tim Forrester walks out from behind the counter of his shop, Harlem Shambles, with stains on his white shirt and apron. The amount of blood on each employee’s uniform makes it clear who has been working on the cow that came in earlier that morning. Before shaking my hand, Forrester removes a small fleck of meat […]