A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
We’re chugging right along, into week 4 of this project, and alphabetically, we’ve moved on to Angola. Now, along with Mozambique, Angola is probably the most heavily influenced African country by Portuguese colonization many moons ago, and looking through dozens of websites with info on the cuisine, it tends to fall into two categories –… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #4 – Angola
I was sure when I posted a week or so ago about the various gastronomy festivals sponsored by the city in the “BA Celebra…X” series, that the huge multi-ethnic Festival de las Colectividades was the culmination of them all. I was wrong. Another two this past weekend – Croatia & Italy. The first, a mere… Read More Festivals of the Boot
Although originally I started out thinking about this project in terms of breads, some sort of vaguely formed idea in my head that every culture has some sort of stuffed bread similar to an empanada, samosa, turnover, pasty, etc. – that’s turning out to not be as true as I surmised. So the bread part… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #3 – Algeria
There are a myriad of ways I could go with this project. I decided alphabetically by country. Accept it. Embrace it. I can see already that the difficulties, too, are myriad, but I’m game: I have to decide what soup and what filled bread or turnover-ish thing really represents an entire country’s cuisine, and then… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #2 – Albania
I’ve never figured out why, but all of the 2-3 dozen ethnic food festivals here in BA seem to take place over the winter – which to me seems the worst time of the year to have outdoor events. Those are quickly followed on by the big gastronomy festivals, like Bocas Abiertas (this past weekend),… Read More The Season of Food (Festivals)
This photo might be the most “liked” of my photos in the last year or two on both Facebook and Instagram. It clearly struck a chord – but then, bread and soup tend to, no? I have this vaguely formed idea of exploring, one country at a time, what amounts to the national bread, preferably… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #1 – Afghanistan
Over the last weeks, since returning from our adventures, a few new plates have found their way onto the menus. A few others, also new, are still “works in progress” that need some tweaking. And, I have yet to sit down and come up with some new inspirations from our travels in Colombia, Ecuador and… Read More A Few New Dishes
With vacation and all, it’s been awhile since we had one of our online cooking challenges. We came up with this idea to have a more random selection of ingredients that we’re giving a shot at – we each came up with a list of a few dozen ingredients that over time we’d have thrown… Read More You Put Da Herbs in Da Coconut…