Best enjoy the light and colour that diversity transmits.

A hand-written sign with the words “we don’t yell to sell” hangs off a meat hook above the counter of a butcher’s stall at the Queen Victoria Market. Beneath it a laconic butcher goes about his business dissecting meat and calmly arranging the ‘cuts’ in the display section of the family business.

On top of the counter stands a framed sepia photograph of the original shop taken by a box Brownie from across a dirt road at a time when the present shoppers weren’t even born. It shows a bearded patriarch of Anglo decent in his butcher’s apron in front of his newly established business with his wife and sons beside him.

Read the full article here at the Huffington Post.