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A flexible guide to macerating strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, combining their flavours, and trying uncooked or gently cooked preparations without relying on rigid measurements.
Available content that can be reviewed from the recipe collection.
Market cuisine is a way of planning food around ingredient availability and quality. Its recent history connects with culinary debates of the 1970s, but a flexible idea should not be mistaken for a single tradition or a fixed set of rules.
Oral recipes are not fixed instructions: they travel through conversation, memory, and shared practice. Writing and digital media broaden the ways they can be preserved, but do not automatically replace the family and cultural context that gives them meaning.
A guide to understanding the municipal market as a place to shop, a public space and a setting for urban change—without treating two studied cases as a universal rule.
A cultural look at festive dishes: how they express identity, pass on knowledge, and change with communities, with practical ways to explore their histories without inventing them.
The spice routes were not one fixed road but changing trade networks. From overland and Mediterranean connections to Portuguese maritime expeditions, their history is also about intermediaries, power, and cultural exchange.
A guide to observing bakery work without confusing what we see with what we assume: organization, decisions, cues, and the limits of what can be inferred from the outside.
Soups, stews and potages are not a family defined by one ingredient. Their history is best understood through how they are eaten, the foods available and the meanings communities have given them.
Shared food has not followed a single path or meant the same thing everywhere. Its story is easier to understand by looking at how meals bring people together, pass on customs, and adapt to migration, social change, and new media.
Making good use of ingredients is not about saving everything or following one fixed tradition. It means planning thoughtfully and choosing how to transform ingredients suitable for cooking, while recognizing that every technique changes the result.
Is there a shared, historic Mediterranean breakfast? The evidence tells us more about a diverse region, changing ingredients and exchanges, and the social meaning of eating together than about a fixed morning meal.
Drying, salting, fermenting, pickling, and smoking are not techniques sealed off in the past. Preservation has changed with science and technology, yet it still carries local knowledge, flavors, and ways of relating to food.
A guide to reading home recipe books as culinary and cultural documents, separating what their pages say from the memories and interpretations we add.
A Fijian dessert of grated cassava, steamed and served with a coconut and caramelized sugar sauce.
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Brazilian bites of dough filled with shredded chicken, breaded and fried until golden.
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A Nepali dessert of rice slowly cooked in milk, sweetened and scented with cardamom and saffron, with nuts and raisins sautéed in ghee.
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A tender Ethiopian wheat bread seasoned with coriander, fenugreek, and nigella. This version uses honey and is baked in a loaf pan.
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Moroccan tomato soup with chicken, chickpeas, noodles, and fresh herbs, seasoned with ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, and saffron.
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A Provençal fish stew with rockfish, tomato, fennel, saffron and potatoes; the fish is served separately from the broth.
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A baked cake made with grated cassava, ripe bananas, coconut cream, and sugar.
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Thick, fluffy American-style pancakes made with flour, milk, and egg, cooked in a skillet until golden.
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Japanese short-grain rice bites, lightly salted and shaped by hand into triangles. This simple version has no filling and no vinegar.
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