Minute Rice and Nineteenth Century Urdu Poetry
Sometimes when you’re researching a topic, you run across a side issue that is almost irresistible. Here’s one of those. There I was trolling through the Encyclopedia Iranica for references…
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A thread on the ever-interesting ASFS listserv threw up a link to this recipe for boza on a blog called Yogurt Land. Boza is another of those fascinating, fast-disappearing archaic…
Read moreAgua Fresca 4. Agua de Chia
Poor chia. When you google it on the web you are assaulted by two kinds of sites. 1. Chia pets. If you’ve never encountered these, they are little toy animals,…
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