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Peeled Walnuts: Awesome, Really

By Rachel Laudan July 4, 2009 Food History, Globalization Then and Now, Mexican Food 5 Comments

What a thing of beauty.  Here’s a fresh walnut, just out of the shell, its white flesh gleaming like moonlight, and the bit of skin I have peeled back waving…

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Walnut-Yogurt Sauce: The Missing Link?

By Rachel Laudan October 12, 2008 Food History, Globalization Then and Now, Mexican Food 6 Comments

Combining walnuts and yogurt, as Anne Mendelson suggests is common in Eurasia. It was new to me. Or so I thought. Of course, as Anne explains, “dairy animals and yogurt-making…

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