Cheese is a preservation technology that turned into a craft. The differences between these twelve come down to a handful of decisions made in the first few hours and then…
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…
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…
Rice is the most widely eaten staple on the planet, and the interesting thing is how differently it gets treated. Some traditions want every grain separate, some want it deliberately…
Noodles solve the same problem everywhere: cheap starch, fast cooking, and a vehicle for whatever flavour you have. What differs is everything else. Here are fifteen dishes from around the…
Dumplings are one of those inventions that keep appearing in unrelated places, because the underlying idea is so sound: dough stretches expensive filling, seals in moisture, and travels well. Here…