And sausage for dessert

And here’s the local sweet sausage.  When I read about it, I imagined something slightly sweet.  No.  This is candy-sweet and lemony, with a texture reminiscent of a gummy bear. …

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Seemingly trivial culinary puzzles (Catalan canelons) and why they matter

Shortly after my last post, Jeff Koehler, long-time Barcelona resident, now part of a Catalan family, and author of the compelling Rice, Pasta, Couscous: The Heart of the Mediterranean Kitchen…

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As Catalan as . . . Canelons

If you can talk about as American as apple pie, a dish that was surely not American in origin, then you can talk about as Catalan as canelons (cannelloni). They…

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