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The Special Eksperiment: Belgrade Pork Chops
“A smooth sea never a skilled mariner made.” - English proverb In the summer of 1997, two friends and I decided it would be a hoot to spend six weeks visiting a variety of countries that had recently...
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You Never Forget Your First Poutine
“Je me souviens” I shall not forget / I remember - Quebecois motto You never forget your first poutine the saying doesn’t go. But it should. After all, what gastronomic experience could be more...
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Blood In the Time of Spring
Barcelona’s La Boqueria is perhaps the most famous food market in the world, and the most famous of its bar/restaurants is undoubtedly Pinotxo (pee-not-cho), run by the equally famous Juanito Bayen....
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Enfrijoladas! Where Have You Bean All My Life?
“Waiter! What is this?” “Um, it’s bean soup, sir.” “I don’t care what it’s been. What is it now?” - bad English joke Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, has the highest proportion of native peoples in the...
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Papas a la Huancaina: The Humble Potato Bids for Immortality
Of all the miracles of modern science that we have witnessed over recent years, few have received as little attention as the 2009 announcement by the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru, that it...
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Storks, Pollo al Andaluz and the Facts of Life
As an icebreaker at the beginning of the birthing classes we took in preparation for the arrival of our first-born, participants were divided into male and female groups and invited to sit together...
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Euskal Erria: A Basque Institution Far From the Pyrenees
When the coughing and farting of the antique truck had rumbled away, between the rustlings of birds pecking grubs among the dry plane leaves, you could just make out the pop and thwack of rubber on...
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Melton Your Mouth Pork Pie
In 1994, and after six playfully-humorous seasons of barbershop-based banter, fans of British-Caribbean sitcom “Desmond’s” were disappointed when the show was discontinued. This blow may have been...
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Al-Mansha
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.” – Don Quixote de La Mancha I have been told that the Inuit have more than 30 words for snow and a similar number of descriptors for the myriad tones of white, blue...
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All You Chicken Hearts – Be Quiet!
Towards the end of an otherwise very enjoyable dish of Cantonese-style spicy duck tongues at Congee Village on New York’s Lower East Side a few years ago, I found myself asking the inevitable...
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