Agua Fresca 26: “The Sweet Ones Become Pomegranate Sherbet”

In her informative and delightful book, Sufi Cuisine (2005), Nevin Halici, one of Turkey’s leading culinary historians, gives a recipe for pomegranate sherbet: a cup of freshly squeezed juice, 2/3…

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A Fishy Business

Well, if the fortunes of Holland were built on herring bones, why shouldn’t the earnings of US inmates be based on canned mackerel?

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Shrink-wrapped pig’s head, Mega supermarket, Guanajuato

A propos the comments on watching the killing of animals for meat, a couple of photos. It is accompanied by shrink-wrapped “maiz para pozole,” that is, hominy for the classic…

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