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Mega market, is a latino store and have great colombian chorizo.

also wegmans.

i much prefer the dried hard kind to the fresh salvadorean kind.

There's a small seafood shop next door to the Bethesda Crab House, I think they sell chorizo there.

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Agree that there are many different kinds of chorizo. there is a fish store/spanish market in Bethesda on Bethesda Ave called A &H Market - www.anhmarket.com that has cured spanish chorizo as well as other real spanish food like jamon iberico and such.

whole foods probably has some too. I've definitely bought 'fresh' chorizo there, i.e., not cured, but would guess they have some packaged cured/dried stuff too.

Eastern Market has Mexican & Spanish chorizo.

vace

Cheesetique, in dell ray, sells a couple of varieties. So does arrowine in north Arlington.

Chorizo is a generic term, and (IMHO) "proper" chorizo tends to be defined by what people ate as kids. So, the first question is what does the term mean for you? Do you mean pork or beef? Finally ground or chunks with fat? Canela or oregano as the dominant spice?

DH has been looking for "proper" (rural) Mexican chorizo (dried, pork, chunks, canela) since we got to DC and has been very disappointed. Most of the grocery stores and carnecerias around here that are labeled "Mexican" or appear to be Latino are really Salvadorean, which is totally different. We had no luck with Whole Foods, so I wouldn't bother (only stuff I found there was in the meat case). The places in Arlington are all Salvadorean. (DH went to every one when we first got here.)

So far, we've relied on family in LA and Chicago to send us stuff. But I'll be thrilled if DCUM'ers come up with some place closer. At this point, we are considering learning how to make it ourselves.

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The chorizos I've found in stores are not really bona fide Spanish chorizo.

You mean Spanish chorizo? Try that European store on Washibgton blvd and Pershing ave in arlington

Have you tried the hispanic markets?

The dried/cured stuff, preferably unsliced (so in a sausage). Not chorizo type sausages from the chiller. Ideally in MoCo or NW DC. I've tried Trader Joes, Giant, Safeway. Not tried Whole Foods yet.