From North Africa to Baja: Dates
From C. M. Mayo (madammayo@blogspot.com) It has always stayed with me how extraordinary it is (and yet how commonsensical) that the dates groves that flourish in Mexico’s Baja California oases…
Read moreSpeculations, please: the griddle-seared pastry (warka-popiah) across Eurasia
I’ve invented the name. There is no general name for the thin sheets of pastry that wrap egg rolls, crop up in North African and Middle Eastern sweet and savory…
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