What is culinary heritage?
I’m supposed to know something about culinary heritage. Exploring Hawaii’s Culinary Heritage is the subtitle of the book I published in the 1990s on the extraordinary foods of the Islands. …
Read moreTaro, taro, taro
To say that taro does not loom large in most Americans’ culinary universe would be an understatement. Yet taro is eaten my millions of people around the world and is…
Read moreServing couscous in Mexico in the 1800s
So how were the wheat couscous and the maize couscous (remember this is not sweet corn nor even cornmeal but essentially a crumbled tamal of maiz that has been treated…
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