"I've been to local police stations and tiny NGO offices where they don't have any other anti-trafficking literature but they do have a Tip report," says Burkhalter. "It can provide useful guidance on very practical ways to carry out prevention work, the importance of enforcement of laws and also to raise awareness of anti-slavery work at that local level".
On her list are big, glamorous restaurants, and tiny local places in old shops with only 10 tables (though thankfully more of the latter than the former).
As a result, the mix of retail and restaurant tenants is an untraditional combination of national retailers like Anthropologie and tiny local shops like the upscale Dawn Price Baby store and Artisan Confections, a chocolatier.
Several local chefs concur; everyone has a soft spot for Néstor, which despite its fame and ever-increasing numbers of visiting tourists remains a quirky (and tiny) local hangout.
A second trio, equally satisfying, comprised crab dumplings with black pepper oil and tiny local peas; seared sweet scallops from Dalian, nestling with clams in a tomato jus; and superbly fresh snapper with crunchy cucumber strips.
Mr. Kass prepared a citrus salad with local many-hued watermelon radishes and tiny ice greens, so-called because they grow in the snow.
For residents of some far-flung villages and tiny islands, the local post office provides the only access to banking services.
Local's tiny kitchen produces salads and pressed sandwiches, among them a delicious combination of goat cheese, caramelized onion and local honey on rosemary focaccia ($9).
When, for instance, he watches kids in the playground of a local school, "so tiny and useless you couldn't believe they'd been let out of the sight of their mums and dads", it's hard to know whether to read that "useless" aspitying, predatory, amused or concerned.
