Puffed Rice and the Sacred Fire
Ammini Ramachandran, who knows so much about the food of Kerala in India, compares puffed rice to popcorn. The techniques are similar. Reminded me of how in India we used…
Read moreMore on thin pastry trail. Pootarekulu from Andhra, India. Updated.
Ready for more on the thin pastry sheet trail that we’ve been discussing on this blog in the last couple of weeks. Ammini Ramachandran sent a fascinating video of…
Read moreWhat Do We Really Know about the History of the Wok?
Not much. Just enough to know that the standard story has to be revised. My long-time friend and fine scholar and anthropologist, E.N. Anderson, told this story in The Food…
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