Variety, Discrimination, and Mexican Breads
For a long time I’ve been interested in how perceptions of variety in food have shifted as countries have become more prosperous. In particular, variety comes to be seen as…
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…
Read moreThe Ensaimada Trail: Backing up for Review
All this discussion of ensaimadas (links to previous postings here and here) and I realize that I’ve never really explained what they are. Ensaimadas are a pastry associated chiefly with…
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