What Food do you Store and Where do you Store It?

What should the cook keep at hand?  Supermarkets and refrigerators have so revolutionized our habits in the last thirty years that it is hard to think back to earlier times. …

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Agua Fresca 21: Agua de Guayaba 1

Guayaba is the Spanish for guava.  Guava is not a common fruit in the US.  Perhaps the fact that it is full of hard seeds is the reason, along with…

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Agua Fresca 20: From Apricot Leather (Amardine)

Here’s an agua that I have never encountered in Mexico which is why there’s no name for it in Mexico.  And why there’s no drink of this kind, as we’ll…

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