The Island Plate

It’s cookbook award time. And the number of stunning cookbooks that are out there is overwhelming: beautifully written, well-tested recipes, and glorious photography. Yet there are so many lovely books…

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Cheese Worldwide: Some Thoughts

Why don’t Indians make cheese? That’s come up in the discussion of Mexican cheese. I don’t have a knock down answer but I do have some thoughts on the worldwide…

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Pig Slaughtering in Portugal

Traditional pig slaughtering in Portugal is one of the main themes on the web page of Portuguese anthropologist, Sandra Nogueira. It’s a web site well worth looking at and if…

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