Agua 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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Unnatural Appetite

I was delighted when last week the Old Foodie, who ferrets out the most wonderful quotations, posted this: “Pleasure is the thing proposed, and because there can be none without…

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The Ensaimada Trail

For a couple of years, I’ve been interested in the ensaimada (the en-larded), a sweet bread associated with Mallorca and Minorca in Spain that also crops up in the Philippines.…

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