Griddle Baked Pastry in Andhra Pradesh and (?) in Eritrea

Thanks so much for so many comments.  I’ll be replying properly when I have done my “real” work for the day.  But one more example to throw into the discussion,…

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Speculations, please: the griddle-seared pastry (warka-popiah) across Eurasia

I’ve invented the name.  There is no general name for the thin sheets of pastry that wrap egg rolls, crop up in North African and Middle Eastern sweet and savory…

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Panamá Gastronómica. For Real

Girls in national dress primping in bathroom Sorry to all those who checked an earlier post to find a blank page.  A genie.  So here we go again. One of…

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