Round up on griddle-baked thin pastry
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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 moreWhy didn’t Mexico abandon the metate?
Third or fourth pass grinding barley on a metate Lots more questions than I can take up. But one that several commentators have raised is “Why did the simple grindstone…
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