US Foreign Policy, the Flaky Flatbread Called Parotta, and Where Does Asafoetida Fit?

Back to Malabar Parotta, which as I said in my last post was new to me but which I learn is thriving as a street food and Indian processed food. …

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Memories of English Farmhouse Cuisine: Beyond England

Over many years in the kitchen, I have found three, and only three cookbooks that gave me a shock of recognition, only three that have evoked the cooking I knew…

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Beignets and Luqam: Thoughts from Cathy Kaufman

The Islamic-Christian culinary connection is one that fascinates lots of readers of my blog. So when I saw that Cathy Kaufman had published this piece in the IACP history of…

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