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Longtime Concord grocer (and fried chicken perfectionist) opens Chicken Thyme

August 6, 2024

Article courtesy of East Bay Times.

Fraidoon Jamshed first fell in love with fried chicken while working at a fried chicken shop in New York City in the 1980s.

The Alamo resident went on to launch a grocery store — International Foods — in Concord, which has kept him busy for the past 35 years. But he still kept thinking about that crispy poultry.

So he began recipe-testing. “I tried maybe 1,000 different recipes,” he says.