A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
The Pyramids. The Sphinx. The Sahara Desert. The Nile River. Raiders of the Lost Ark. Egypt is a country we all have a vague familiarity with from iconic images and film, but most of us probably have little to no personal experience with either the country or its cuisine. Welcome to our next entry in… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #53 – Egypt
Finally, on to a country and culture with which I have at least a vague familiarity. Not a lot, but at least more than some of the far flung places I’ve ventured to in the kitchen here. It’s been just over six years since our one trip to Quito, which is my only on the… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #52 – Ecuador
It’s been awhile since I’ve gone for an entry in this project. Just a reminder, while locro is generally considered, at least by outsiders, to be an Argentine dish, and specifically, its national dish, the history is much more regional and complex. Originating in the Andes, and based on the locro potato, it spread throughout not… Read More The L Word – Chilean Fake?
Let’s start this time off with a repeat of the map I used in the last post, on Dominica, just a reminder that they’re not the same place…. The Dominican Republic is the second largest nation in the Caribbean, after Cuba. It shares an island with Haiti. The native Taino people settled it in the 7th… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #51 – Dominican Republic
While we gear up for a full on reopening over the next couple of weeks, we’re still offering private dinners for groups that aren’t quite ready for a communal table experience again. This time around, a local family group of seven who’ve actually been wanting to dine here for most of the last year, but… Read More A Family Affair
Fifty! Feels like a milestone reached. Roughly, though not quite, a quarter of the way through the list of countries in the world. We’re back in the Caribbean, and headed to two in a row countries that are often confused by probably a huge number of people who don’t happen to live in the area.… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #50 – Dominica
Ever onward! We’ve headed back to Africa and a country that when I was a kid was a French territory called French Somaliland, and then later in my late teens, briefly, the tongue tangling “French Territory of the Afars and the Issas”. I have to admit, I don’t recall ever hearing it called that, but… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #49 – Djibouti
We’re still up and running, offering our breads for delivery, as well as private dinners and lunches. Now that Argentina’s government (just yesterday, and like anything they do, subject to reversal) has announced that our borders will reopen on November 2nd, we’re looking at reopening in full in early November. I don’t think there will… Read More We’re Still Working