A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics
Ready for more on the thin pastry sheet trail that we’ve been discussing on this blog in the last couple of weeks. Ammini Ramachandran sent a fascinating video of an Indian thin pastry from Andhra, India. Then Uma Satyavolu sent these memories of pootarekulu, as these sheets are called. Not so much on how [...]
Read: More on thin pastry trail. Pootarekulu from Andhra, India. Updated.
Just look at this. Wow. Have to re-think lots of things. ca. 540 AD. Recipe (not direct translation). Take refined rice glutinous rice starch, add enough water to make a batter, heat a large pot of boiling water, set a copper pan in the water, push the pan to rotate it as you drop in [...]
Read: Thin rice starch batter pastry from the 6th century AD
Thank you everyone who has responded here, and on Facebook or Twitter, or via personal emails. Once again, I am amazed at the way these tools speed up intellectual interaction. Soon the days that I remember when you sent off a letter and waited weeks for response and even then could never gather up the [...]
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