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DESERTS - GUJARAT
if cumin is toasted in a dry pan and used to finish a dish, the family is Hindu. Cumin tossed in hot oil before the cooking liquid is added is the Muslim way of doing things. This culinary rule is by no means set in stone and every household has its own preferences, but as a general rule, preliminary frying and the use of an iron pan is Muslim and simmering with a liquid in a cooking pot is Hindu
— Mar 18, 2023 06:06PM
if cumin is toasted in a dry pan and used to finish a dish, the family is Hindu. Cumin tossed in hot oil before the cooking liquid is added is the Muslim way of doing things. This culinary rule is by no means set in stone and every household has its own preferences, but as a general rule, preliminary frying and the use of an iron pan is Muslim and simmering with a liquid in a cooking pot is Hindu
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Fiona
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DESERTS - GUJARAT
‘Enough of politics and talk of what most certainly will not come to pass. What you and I who are both travellers will share tonight is travellers’ food. Rajasthan, where my ancestors settled, has meat-eating warriors’ food. Gujaratis are peaceful vegetarians and their food is suitable for a nomadic way of life.
— Mar 18, 2023 05:37PM
‘Enough of politics and talk of what most certainly will not come to pass. What you and I who are both travellers will share tonight is travellers’ food. Rajasthan, where my ancestors settled, has meat-eating warriors’ food. Gujaratis are peaceful vegetarians and their food is suitable for a nomadic way of life.
Fiona
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RIVERS - DANUBE
The university of Pécs founded on the banks of the Danube in southern Hungary in the fourteenth century, continues as best to fulfil its original function – the exchange of knowledge between East and West – in spite of the political turbulence endured throughout its history.
— Mar 18, 2023 06:02AM
The university of Pécs founded on the banks of the Danube in southern Hungary in the fourteenth century, continues as best to fulfil its original function – the exchange of knowledge between East and West – in spite of the political turbulence endured throughout its history.
Fiona
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Rivers - Rhône
Lyon is goose-fat territory. In France you’ll know where you are by the cooking fat: olive oil in the south, goose fat in the middle and butter in the north. With the festive season nearly upon us there is a brisk trade in the by-blows of the goose-fat trade – whole foie gras both cooked and raw, preserved as pâté, jarred with its own butter, stuffed into a goose neck or enclosed in a magret.
— Mar 17, 2023 06:04AM
Lyon is goose-fat territory. In France you’ll know where you are by the cooking fat: olive oil in the south, goose fat in the middle and butter in the north. With the festive season nearly upon us there is a brisk trade in the by-blows of the goose-fat trade – whole foie gras both cooked and raw, preserved as pâté, jarred with its own butter, stuffed into a goose neck or enclosed in a magret.
Fiona
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Islands - Sardinia
A Sardinian market is not for the squeamish. The neighbouring butcher’s stall has an exuberant display of partridges in feather and rabbits still wearing their furry jackets, or ready-skinned with little white scuts and furry paws. Boiling fowl – elderly barnyard hens past their laying days – are split open to display a line of unborn eggs, golden globes of diminishing size,
— Mar 12, 2023 08:50PM
A Sardinian market is not for the squeamish. The neighbouring butcher’s stall has an exuberant display of partridges in feather and rabbits still wearing their furry jackets, or ready-skinned with little white scuts and furry paws. Boiling fowl – elderly barnyard hens past their laying days – are split open to display a line of unborn eggs, golden globes of diminishing size,
Fiona
is on page 103 of 400
Islands - Crete
The difference between Greek and Turkish cooking, Aglaia continues, is very simple. Turkish cooks use spices to flavour their food and Greeks use herbs. And not just any herbs – you won’t find pre-blended herbes de Provence sold in Greek supermarkets as you do in France or Britain or America – you must choose the right one for the dish. Except for oregano, which grows wild on Greek hillsides
— Mar 10, 2023 04:20PM
The difference between Greek and Turkish cooking, Aglaia continues, is very simple. Turkish cooks use spices to flavour their food and Greeks use herbs. And not just any herbs – you won’t find pre-blended herbes de Provence sold in Greek supermarkets as you do in France or Britain or America – you must choose the right one for the dish. Except for oregano, which grows wild on Greek hillsides
Fiona
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Forests - Extremadura
pot of the Iberian peninsula was earthenware, a material more suitable for slow-simmered stews than frying over a high heat.
— Mar 10, 2023 08:26AM
pot of the Iberian peninsula was earthenware, a material more suitable for slow-simmered stews than frying over a high heat.
Fiona
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Forests - Extremadura
Many of the questions recorded in the Inquisition’s meticulous records held in Seville and Madrid have to do with the composition of the contents of the cooking pot. Questions were subtle enough to include method as well as ingredients – whether or not the meat was fried before the addition of a liquid. Until the arrival of the Moors, with their metal cooking pans, the traditional cooking
— Mar 10, 2023 08:23AM
Many of the questions recorded in the Inquisition’s meticulous records held in Seville and Madrid have to do with the composition of the contents of the cooking pot. Questions were subtle enough to include method as well as ingredients – whether or not the meat was fried before the addition of a liquid. Until the arrival of the Moors, with their metal cooking pans, the traditional cooking
Fiona
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Forests - Maine
There are no easy answers to the omnivore’s perennial dilemma – how to feed the world without destroying the nature of our precious planet – though here, in the wildwood where our ancestors lived their lives in harmony with their surroundings, is as good a place to start as any.
— Mar 10, 2023 07:53AM
There are no easy answers to the omnivore’s perennial dilemma – how to feed the world without destroying the nature of our precious planet – though here, in the wildwood where our ancestors lived their lives in harmony with their surroundings, is as good a place to start as any.
Fiona
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common cause can be found in the desire for freedom. The right to carry a gun and hunt for the pot meant life or death to the early settlers, forbidden to hunt the king’s forest in their land of origin. And while the record thereafter shows how this right can be abused, that too was part of the freedoms claimed when the Redcoats were sent in by the British Crown to teach the tea-drinkers of Boston a lesson
— Mar 10, 2023 07:41AM
