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Written By: admin on June 5, 2009 16 Comments
photo from bunitedint.com
Mead is a fermented beverage also know as “honey wine” because that is frequently made where grapes are not grown and has the simple ingredients of water and yeast. Although, mead is not technically a wine. It has a long history and has been the stuff of legends, literally, […]
Tags: [celebrations, culture, England, France, Germany, mead, Slovakia, spices, traditions, wine]
Special Ingredients: Avocado Leaves
Written By: admin on May 30, 2009 21 Comments
photo from (mesamexicanfood.com)
In a recent bout of Mexican cooking (I go through periods, I just wrapped up a long stretch of Italian). I encountered , or more specifically, paid attention for the first time to the ingredient – avocado leaves (hojas de aguacate). In most cases, they […]
Tags: [avocado leaves, cuisine, culture, food, Mexico, spices]
Worcestershire Sauce – this one is a bit fishy if you ask me
Written By: admin on May 27, 2009 17 Comments
Gotcha!
Bet you were not thinking of Worcestershire as a fish sauce. You may be surprised to discover that Worcestershire owes its unique taste to anchovies and tamarind.
As I alluded to in my previous post, I’ve been curious about fish sauces for some time, and in an effort to not end up with a deluge of a […]
Tags: [anchovies, England, fish sauce, Japan, sauce, tamarind]
Written By: admin on May 24, 2009 22 Comments
La Mar (photo from SF Gate)
In preparing a recent post on raw fish, I developed a craving for cerviche, and really who could blame me? Living in San Francisco, there was one restaurant on my radar that I knew could offer me an authentic, or at least close proximally, of […]
Tags: [cerviche, corn, culture, ethnic food, fish, food, France, Italy, Japan, Peru, Spain, spices]
Colatura di Alici a fish sauce from the Amalfi Coast
Written By: admin on May 22, 2009 20 Comments
photo from Market Hall
The more I learn about the Amalfi Coast, the more impressed I am. We owe it a debt of gratitute for such culinary wonders as limoncello, and this incredible fish sauce colatura di Alici made from anchovies.
The sauce is simple to make:
select fresh anchovies
clean and pack in a […]
Tags: [Amalfi Coast, fish, fish sauce, Italy, sauce]
Written By: admin on May 20, 2009 13 Comments
Mediterranean vs Mexican oregano
When I attended a Yucatan cooking class in Mexico, the chef informed us that oregano was a foundation spice in many of the dishes we were to prepare, he further admonished us that we needed to use only Mexican oregano and not the Mediterranean Greek variety. Huh? […]
Tags: [Mediterranean, Mexico, oregeo, spices, Turkey]
Brunico: weinerschnitzel or pesto?
Written By: admin on May 16, 2009 16 Comments
main street in Brunico
When we landed in Brunico, I was confused. Not necessarily a unique state for me, but you must understand, Brunico is in Italy – the map clearly says so. Yet, I felt we had taken a wrong turn at a mountain pass and and arrived at a village […]
Tags: [bikes, culture, food, Giro, Italy]
Toblerone – a chocolate replica of a national treasure
Written By: admin on May 14, 2009 17 Comments
You see that distinctive beige triangular box and immediately you just know its going to be good, and unless you have the will power of Lance Armstrong, you know you are not going to stop with one square, err triangle portion, but settle […]
Tags: [candy, chocolate, food, history, Switzerland]
Written By: admin on May 9, 2009 19 Comments
Princess Bona Maria Sforza (from www.polishnews.com)
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there lived a princess who did her part in adding a bit of culture to the Polish court. Princess Bona Maria Sforza was born in Vigevano near Milan in 1494 to her proud parents; Gian Galeazzo […]
Tags: [cooking, cuisine, food, Italy, Lituania, Poland]
Written By: admin on May 7, 2009 9 Comments
Last month, Jenn at Breadplusbutter kindly recognized me with a friendship award. I wracked my brain to come up with someway to creatively insert this recognition and show that I really deserved it, I lost count of the times I stopped started, deleted my way through a multitude of ideas. Then it […]
Tags: [friendship, India, United States]
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