Tiny bubbles. I’m often struck by how often they feature in Western cuisine, how rarely in other major culinary traditions. Think of mousse and sparkling drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic,…
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Provisioning Rome, one of the world’s largest cities, if not the largest with as many as a million people by about 55 B.C., was one of the greatest challenges…
Read moreYou might well ask why, apart from nostalgia for the ten years that I spent in the Hawaiian Islands, I might be interested in the eating habits of David Kalakaua,…
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