Semitas in California (and Other Semita Matters)

I’ve been pursuing the semita trail for the last several years and a very interesting trail it is too. Breads called semita or cemita pop up all over Latin America and, I think, can be traced back to the Mediterranean, probably North Africa. Originally they were the humblest of breads, breads made from the lowest [...]

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The Ensaimada Trail: Ensaimadas and Lardy Cake

In a thread on Dan Lepard’s great site on baking, Adam Balic raises possible connections between lardy cake and ensaimadas (en-larded things), in this case a type of sweet bread from the Balearic Islands. This is a topic that really interests me. Lardy cake was a great treat at tea time when I was growing [...]

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