Rainier Valley’s Ammana Houseware and Grocery is one of roughly eight Seattle-area Somali-owned shops that carries camel milk from the state’s first camel milk distributor.
Iryna Mykhalchuk of Ukraine, Tenaye Adem of Ethiopia and Bebe Renzaho of the Democratic Republic of Congo work in the kitchen at Ubuntu Street Cafe at the historic Titusville Station Building in Kent.
No matter how much you grieve for pre-Amazon Seattle, that company has proved that urban centers are not just banks for corporate square footage. They’re places to call home.