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Semitas in California (and Other Semita Matters)

By Rachel Laudan March 22, 2008 Food History, Mexican Food 21 Comments

I’ve been pursuing the semita trail for the last several years and a very interesting trail it is too. Breads called semita or cemita pop up all over Latin America…

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The Ensaimada Trail: Ensaimadas and Lardy Cake

By Rachel Laudan March 13, 2008 Food History, Globalization Then and Now, Taste 12 Comments

In a thread on Dan Lepard’s great site on baking, Adam Balic raises possible connections between lardy cake and ensaimadas (en-larded things), in this case a type of sweet bread…

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