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The Ensaimada Trail

By Rachel Laudan March 25, 2008 Food History, Globalization Then and Now 14 Comments

For a couple of years, I’ve been interested in the ensaimada (the en-larded), a sweet bread associated with Mallorca and Minorca in Spain that also crops up in the Philippines.…

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Is this Catalan Dish related to Mole and Curry?

By Rachel Laudan September 20, 2007 Food History, Mexican Food 7 Comments

A couple of days ago, following a suggestion of Adam Balic, I made a dish from Catalonia that uses techniques and ingredients that are very similar to those used in…

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