Yearly Archive: 2020

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Sandwiches of Summer: The Caprese

August is the perfect time to write about Caprese sandwiches. It’s not because of the cheese–fresh mozzarella doesn’t really have a season, any more than milk does. Basil is a summer crop, but can...

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From Russia With Lunch: Caviar Sandwiches

What is caviar? The most exacting, strict definitions say that caviar is the roe, or unfertilized eggs, of the sturgeon–preferably endangered Beluga sturgeon but there are a few other species that qualify–salt-cured and served...

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These Beans are a Time Machine

Dinner was a Peruvian dish, a pancake of rice and beans fried in a pan until crisp, that I only recently Googled and learned was called Tacu-tacu. It was served with a thin grilled steak, and there was a dish in the middle of the table with some kind of salsa. The salsa appeared to be finely chopped chilies and not much else.

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Peruvian Butifarra

Botifarra is the name of a sausage that is central to the cuisine of Catalonia, a region of northeastern Spain. The word “botifarra” itself is from the Catalan language, derived from bot, a word...

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Guadeloupe’s Bokit

In 1493, Christopher Columbus landed on a small island in the Caribbean, called Karukera by the Caribe people who lived there. Columbus landed just long enough to call the place Santa María de Guadalupe...