Soaking dried chiles in Spain
I’m always interested in the diffusion of chiles and chile-preparation techniques so this nice post by Janet Mendel on Spanish pimentón caught my eye. I had not realized that the…
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I’ve just been putting the finishing touches on a keynote that I’ll be giving for a conference on the Taste of Home next week in Brussels. It’s a conference I’ve…
Read moreJust eleven plants out of thirty thousand
Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven – corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats –…
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