{
  "id": 14768852,
  "title": "At the Bodega, Customers Can Get Pork Rinds, Plantains and Just About Anything They Need. Here’s How These Stores Became a 'Community Anchor' of Latino Life",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/at-the-bodega-customers-can-get-pork-rinds-plantains-and-just-about",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-15T19:00:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/at-the-bodega-customers-can-get-pork-rinds-plantains-and-just-about-anything-they-need-heres-how-these-stores-became-a-community-anchor-of-latino-life-180989689/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "For immigrants, bodegas provide daily necessities and cultural connections to the homelands they left behind. The recent book \"Bodega Stories\" paints a picture of one Florida family’s history working in and operating the stores",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}