The former Cafe Presse became a den of small plates (plus a few memorable big ones).
A sheepherder’s visa, Fidel Castro’s takeover of Cuba, and a favor from Richard Nixon all figure in the saga of how Grayson Corrales’s grandparents emigrated from Spain in the 1950s.
Her grandfather hails from Aragon’s Pyrenees mountains. Her grandmother grew up in Galicia, the autonomous region of Spain that’s just atop Portugal, until poverty forced her abroad to find work—forced her to leave her daughter, MariPili, behind. Corrales’s grandparents met in Los Angeles, but farming opportunities via the Columbia Basin Project brought them to Eastern Washington.
Before she opened her
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