The chocolate bar is a nineteenth-century European invention and a very late entry in a long history. For most of that history chocolate was a beverage, and in much of…
Almost everyone who cooks has stood over a chopping board with streaming eyes, and almost everyone has a theory about how to stop it. Light a match. Hold a spoon…
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Almost everyone assumes the Caesar salad is named after Julius Caesar, and the assumption is so natural that it barely registers as an assumption. It has a Roman emperor's…
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There is a reasonable chance you have eaten sushi hundreds of times and never once tasted wasabi.
The green paste served alongside it is usually a blend: European horseradish,…
Preserving began as survival technology and became cuisine. The methods split broadly into two families: adding acid directly with vinegar, or letting bacteria produce it through fermentation. The second is…
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Walk down a supermarket aisle and you can buy walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, pistachios and almonds in their shells. You cannot buy cashews that way, anywhere, ever.
Most people have…