Griddle Baked Pastry in Andhra Pradesh and (?) in Eritrea
Thanks so much for so many comments. I’ll be replying properly when I have done my “real” work for the day. But one more example to throw into the discussion,…
Read moreSpeculations, please: the griddle-seared pastry (warka-popiah) across Eurasia
I’ve invented the name. There is no general name for the thin sheets of pastry that wrap egg rolls, crop up in North African and Middle Eastern sweet and savory…
Read moreThe trick to grinding cacao on the metate (grindstone).
Now grinding seeds is always hard so it’s no wonder that Beatrice resorted to the coffee grinder, especially because she was working with a pestle and mortar, which, even if…
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