Want to Know Where Ingredients in a Recipe Originated? Try This.

For the past few weeks I’ve been corresponding with Wilfried Hou Je Bek who has an interesting off-beat blog called Cryptoforestry. He’s been developing some nifty tools that might be…

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Agua Fresca 24: Nigerian Horchata and the Diffusion of Islamic Cuisine

I haven’t posted about the cold drinks known in Mexico as agua fresca (fresh or cool water) in ages. Today though a post on Kitchen Butterfly’s blog (highly recommended, by the…

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Latin American Cuisine: Unity Beyond the Nation

Every so often a cookbook comes along that offers a fresh vision of the world’s culinary geography, a vision that transcends national boundaries. In Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of…

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